Kelman Seminar: The Frightening Spread of Authoritarian Populism in Latin America

Event Date: Tuesday October 25, 2022
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:

The Frightening Spread of Authoritarian Populism in Latin America

A virtual talk with:

Jorge Zalles
Jorje H. Zalles
Professor and Department Chair emeritus
of Conflict Resolution and Leadership Studies
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

 

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, ET (US and Canada)

 

Free and open to the public.

This session will be recorded. Pending approval, we will post the recorded webinar on this page after the session.

 

About the talk:

Jorje H. Zalles will present a talk exploring the complex dynamics that could explain why several Latin American countries have freely elected authoritarian, populist anti-democratic régimes in the last two decades.

About the speaker:

Jorje H. Zalles is Professor and Department Chair emeritus of Conflict Resolution and Leadership Studies at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Quito, Ecuador, where he taught from 1988 to 2019, and intervenes as an advisor and/or impartial third party in various types of public and private disputes.

A graduate of Yale and Harvard Universities, he was a Visiting Scholar in Conflict Resolution at Harvard University in 1996-1997, and in February 1997 was appointed an Associate of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, PICAR, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

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 at Harvard Law School, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Boston area members of the Alliance for Peacebuilding. The seminar considers ways to strengthen the capacity to prevent, resolve, and transform ethnonational conflicts.

 For more information on the Kelman Seminar Series, contact Donna Hicks at dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu.

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