Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. talks about his new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Speakers: Andre M. Davis, James Forman Jr., Odeana Neal, Ron Weich. (Recorded: Apr 17, 2017)
An expert panel discusses the risks and tradeoffs of the Trump administration’s proposed military buildup and budget rebalancing away from international assistance and foreign aid. Speakers: Sarah Chayes, Bridget Conley, William Hartung, Mark Thompson. (Recorded: Apr 05, 2017)
A panel discussion on how right-wing populist politics are shaping the debate about public health. Speakers: Jonathan Cohen, Chloë Cooney, Gregg Gonsalves, Naa Hammond, Ronald Martin, Elisabeth Rosenthal. (Recorded: Mar 28, 2017)
Taylor Branch, author and Open Society Institute Baltimore Advisory Board member, discusses what today's activists can learn from the African-American-led freedom movement of the 1950s and '60s. Speaker: Taylor Branch. (Recorded: Mar 22, 2017)
Matt Eisenbrandt joins a panel of experts to discuss his new book, which tells the story of the investigation into the killing of Archbishop Óscar Romero. Speakers: Carolyn Patty Blum, Raymond Bonner, Matt Eisenbrandt, Aryeh Neier. (Recorded: Feb 27, 2017)
Michèle Lamont discusses her most recent book, which examines the extent to which racial identity overshadows the daily experiences of stigmatized groups across contexts. Speakers: Michèle Lamont, Chris Stone. (Recorded: Feb 13, 2017)
Paul Cairney discusses his new book, which investigates widespread and dangerous gaps between scientific evidence and reasonable policymaking responses. Speakers: Paul Cairney, Brett Davidson. (Recorded: Oct 26, 2016)
Leading human rights lawyer Anthony Lester discusses his new book, which presents a powerful account of what’s needed to protect our hard-won rights and freedoms. Speakers: Anthony Lester, Chris Stone. (Recorded: Sep 26, 2016)
Rosa Brooks discusses her new book, which examines what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Speakers: Rosa Brooks, Aryeh Neier. (Recorded: Sep. 14, 2016)
This discussion examines the importance of land rights to open society priorities, how land rights create a foundation for other interventions, and the opportunities and challenges facing a growing land rights movement. Speakers: Tim Hanstad, Chris Jochnick. (Recorded: Jul 14, 2016)
An international panel of experts discusses what a new approach to drug policy would look like, at at a pop-up cultural hub looking at the impact of current drug policies on populations around the world. Speakers: Eduardo Ribeiro Dos Santos, Martin Collazo, Donald Macpherson, Gloria Lai, Edo Agustian, Gabriel Sayegh. (Recorded: Apr 21, 2016)
Three U.S. church leaders offer perspective on the war on drugs. Speakers: Yolande Cadore, Iva Carrothers, Jacqueline J. Lewis, Edwin C. Sanders, II. (Recorded: Apr 21, 2016)
Former president of Switzerland Ruth Dreifuss speaks with former U.N. high commissioner for human rights Louise Arbour. Speakers: Ruth Dreifuss, Louise Arbour, Touré. (Recorded: Apr 20, 2016)
Authors of books on drug policy Maia Szalavitz and Baz Dreisinger present fresh views on addiction and incarceration. Speakers: Maia Szalavitz, Baz Dreisinger. (Recorded: Apr 19, 2016)
Stories of drug war impacts from the U.S. and global South, at at a pop-up cultural hub looking at the impact of current drug policies on populations around the world. Speakers: Zipporah Ali, Kenneth Glasgow, Deon Haywood, Melody Lee, Adeolu Ogunrombi. (Recorded: Apr 19, 2016)
Mothers impacted by the war on drugs discuss efforts to reform global drug policy, at at a pop-up cultural hub looking at the impact of current drug policies on populations around the world. Speakers: Gretchen Burns Bergman, Anne-Marie Cockburn, Denise Cullen, Karen Garrison, Mary Grace, Maricela Orozco, Jane Slater. (Recorded: Apr 19, 2016)
Award-winning constitutional scholar David Cole discusses his new book, Engines of Liberty, which explores how citizen activists have successfully shaped constitutional law. Speakers: David Cole, Jeffrey Toobin, Wendy Weiser. (Recorded: Apr 26, 2016)
In honor of the 60th Commission on the Status of Women, the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations and the Open Society Foundations cohosted a special discussion on the impact of drug policies on women. Speakers: Emma Bonino, Sebastiano Cardi, Farah Diaz-Tello, Carolyn Eisert, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Luigi Marini. (Recorded: Mar 17, 2016)
An expert panel discusses alternative approaches to combating terrorism—including less reliance on the military, a tougher line on bad governance, and closer work with civil society. Speakers: Larry Attree, Sarah Chayes, Richard Fontaine, Scott Shane. (Recorded: Feb 1, 2016)
An expert panel explores how violations of medical neutrality are used as weapons of war—and the impact this has on humanitarian organizations offering aid. Speakers: Elise Baker, Widney Brown, Jonathan Cohen, Deane Marchbein. (Recorded: Feb 8, 2016)
Jamie Holmes discusses his book, Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing, on navigating the increasingly ambiguous and uncertain modern world. Speakers: Leonard Benardo, Jamie Holmes. (Recorded: Jan 13, 2016)
Human rights activist and writer Ben Rawlence speaks about his new book, City of Thorns, which deals with daily life and the struggle for survival in the world’s largest refugee camp. Speakers: Howard French, Ben Rawlence. (Recorded: Jan 06, 2016)
Leading up to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs, a panel of researchers looks at how drug control policies perversely harm the natural environment. Speakers: Kate Horner, Kendra McSweeney, Guillermo Ospina, Nazih Richani, Brian Winter. (Recorded: Dec 09, 2015)
An international panel of advocates discusses the possibilities and limitations of deploying strategic litigation as a tool for social change. Speakers: James Goldston, Colin Gonsalves, Dmitri Holtzman, Sherrilyn Ifill. (Recorded: Oct 26, 2015)
The Open Society Global Drug Policy Program and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty convene a panel of experts to discuss capital punishment in the context of international law and global drug control. Speakers: Scott Bernstein, Patrick Gallahue, Faraz Sanei, Elizabeth Zitrin. (Recorded: Oct 07, 2015)
Gleb Pavlovsky, the mastermind behind much of the Kremlin’s ideological character and a prime architect of Putin’s “managed democracy,” takes part in this conversation on Russia. Speakers: Stephen Holmes, Gleb Pavlovsky. (Recorded: Sep 14, 2015)
Oleksandr Sushko and Balazs Jarabik discuss the state of reforms in Ukraine today. Speakers: Leonard Benardo, Balázs Jarábik, Oleksandr Sushko. (Recorded: Sep 15, 2015)
Scott Horton discusses his new book, Lords of Secrecy, which explores national security debates including the turn to private security contractors, sweeping surveillance methods, and the use of robotic weapons such as drones. Speakers: Scott Horton, Amrit Singh. (Recorded: May 21, 2015)
Under current U.S. law, national security whistleblower Edward Snowden has no recourse to a public interest defense. This event discusses options for reform. Speakers: Steven Aftergood, Sandra Coliver, Beatrice Edwards, Morton Halperin, Bill Leonard, Anna Myers. (Recorded: Jul 15, 2015)
Fred Abrahams, author of the new book Modern Albania, will give an inside account of the fall of communism in Albania and efforts to rebuild after decades of labor camps, thought police, and one-party rule. Speakers: Fred Abrahams, Aryeh Neier. (Recorded: Jun 09, 2015)
