From Passion to Politics: What Moves People to Take Action?
The 2007 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
Humanitarian Intervention
Summary:Moderator: Gary J. Bass, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Panelists: Barbara Demick, Beijing Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times; Ferris Professor of Journalism; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University Peter Maass, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Gary Bass intro:
Premise of human rights movement is that fate of other is on
equal level to our own. Task is to bridge the miles to shrink the
distance. Today's panel do that for a living. Try to make
suffering of people in distant [...]
Starting point of discussion - 1938. Hitler conquer Czech.
Chamberlain said faraway country with people we know nothing
about. Chamberlain thought that distance and security of Czechs
would make it OK to sacrifice to Nazis. This was language of moral
UNconcern.
The Power of Collaboration in Trans-National Action
Summary:Jody Williams, Campaign Ambassador, International Campaign to Ban Landmines Introduction by: Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Dean Slaughter intro: Today focus on the power of one. 1992
Jody Williams launched campaign to ban landmines with staff of
one. Now 13 orgs working in 95 countries. Unprecedented
cooperative effort with govt, UN, red cross. Chief strategist and
spokesperson for landmine ban coalition. I remember the press
talking about phenomenon of int'l treaty that had been conceived
and pushed for outside halls of govt. 3 weeks later Jody Williams
and her office awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Now [...]
Taking Office to Take Action
Summary:Moderator: James Leach '64, former Congressman from Iowa, John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Co. Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Panelists: William H. Frist, M.D. '74 P06 P10, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader (R-Tenn.) Eliot Spitzer '81, Governor of New York
Welcoming Remarks: Shirley Tighlman, President, Princeton
University
The Woodrow Wilson School is seeking to understand the
motivations of agents of action and change, but understand how to
motivate all of us to make change and move people to address the
problems that confront society.
Each of the panelists took office to take action and hope that
Princeton helped put them on that path.
Introduction of panelists: James Leach
We are seeing in the last month academic reviews of the gilded
age with [...]If I Look at the Mass I Will Never Act: Psychic Numbing and Genocide
Summary:Paul Slovic, President, Decision Research; Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon Introduction: Daniel Kahneman h*78, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Access to Antiretrovirals for HIV: How Activism Has Translated into Political Action
Summary:Moderator: Christina H. Paxson, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing; Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Panelists: David Barr, Executive Director of The HIV Collaborative Fund, Tides Foundation João G. Biehl, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University Jennifer Kates, Vice President and Director of HIV Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation Evan S. Lieberman, Assistant Professor Politics, Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Jennifer Kates: How became involved. Friends sick and
dying. Community level work, came to WWS knowing wanted to do
policy work.
Set the stage. AIDS identified in 1981. Go back to 1984 when
had identified the virus. Test for HIV not available until 1985.
First antiretroviral not approved until 1987. So almost entire
first decade of AIDS there was nothing. Void in available
treatments. Void filled by activism in research and treatment.
Changed way in which government was organized [...]
About
The 2007 Colloquium will explore a vital question: what motivates people to move beyond cognitive awareness of a major policy problem to take actual steps to make change? It will focus on what factors and motivations spur people to care about something happening half a world away, as well as in their own communities; the reasons people don't care, and even if they do, still don't act; and what can be done to teach people how to diagnose, solve, and implement solutions to policy problems. Through keynote speeches and panel sessions organized in collaboration with departments and programs from across Princeton University, the Colloquium will challenge audiences - students, alumni, faculty, members of the community, and press - to debate the insights generated in light of the problems facing our community, our nation, and our world.
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