The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:
Reflections on a lifetime effort to bring peace to the Middle East: An interview with Professor Kelman
Herb Kelman
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, Harvard University
Interview to be conducted by Donna Hicks,
Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Monday, September 24, 2018
4:30 – 6:00 PM
WCC Classroom 2004, Harvard Law School
1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments will be provided.
About the speaker:
Herbert C. Kelman is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University and was Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs from 1993 to 2003. He has been engaged for many years in the development of interactive problem solving, an unofficial third party approach to the resolution of international and inter-communal conflicts, and in its application to the Arab-Israeli conflict, with special emphasis on its Israeli-Palestinian component.
He is the past president of the International Studies Association, the International Society of Political Psychology, the Interamerican Society of Psychology, and several other professional associations. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Socio-Psychological Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1956), the Kurt Lewin Memorial award (1973), the American Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (1981), the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (1997), and the Austrian Medal of Honor for Science and Art First Class (1998). His major publications include International Behavior: A Social-Psychological Analysis (editor; 1965), A Time to Speak: On Human Values and Social Research (1968), and Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility (with V. Lee Hamilton; 1989). He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Yale University in 1951.
About the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar Series:
The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution series is sponsored by the Program on Negotiation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Boston area members of the Alliance for Peacebuilding. The theme of the Kelman Seminar is “Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media”.
For more information, contact Donna Hicks at dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu.
