As we struggle with the issues of nation-building, humanitarian intervention and terrorism, what can we learn from Bosnia’s vicious war and its unsettled peace?
In “Dayton, 10 Years On,” Richard Holbrooke, architect of Bosnia’s Dayton peace plan, and a group of distinguished writers among them David Rieff, Chuck Sudetic, and Laura Silber consider these issues at a panel discussion moderated by Tom Gjelten.
Moderator
Tom Gjelten, journalist, national security correspondent for NPR, and the author of Sarajevo Daily: A City and its Newspaper Under Siege.
Panelists
Richard Holbrooke, architect of Bosnia’s Dayton peace plan, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs
David Rieff, writer, author of Slaugterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West, and A Bed for the Night: Humanitariarinism in Crisis
Laura Silber, Senior Policy Advisor at The Open Society Institute, New York
Chuck Sudetic, journalist, national correspondent for NPR
Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, on occasion of the exhibition Sarajevo Self-portraits: The View From Inside at the Peer Gallery from October 17 through November 19.