| No images? Click here  Dear Reader, Across the country, groups are organizing to protest the tactics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and other government policies. Community members, from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, are gathering to plan how they can protect their neighbors from immigration crackdowns. The immigration enforcement actions, as well as the protests, have dominated the news, pop culture and more. Our coverage at The Conversation, as you know, is a collaboration between journalists and academics. So it is timely to look at this topic – the increase in protests across the nation – through the perspective of those who have studied it globally. We invite you to join us for a webinar led by our Executive Editor Beth Daley to examine what can be learned from other global, nonviolent civil resistance movements. John Shattuck, former president of Central European University in Hungary, where he defended academic freedom against a rising authoritarian government, and Oliver Kaplan, author of Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves, will join as panelists.
 John Shattuck is Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1993-98, participating in the Dayton Peace Process and the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; and later he was Ambassador to the Czech Republic. From 2009 to 2016 he was President of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where he defended academic freedom against an authoritarian government. Earlier, he was Harvard Vice President for Government Relations, and Washington Director of the ACLU. His books include Holding Together: The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone, Freedom on Fire, and Rights of Privacy.  Oliver Kaplan is an Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He is the author of the book Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves (Cambridge University Press), and co-editor of the book Speaking Science to Power: Responsible Researchers and Policymaking (Oxford University Press). Kaplan was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. Kaplan received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. We look forward to seeing you on the 24th.
 Beth Daley  |
