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CONFLICT AND PEACE

• Learning to Hate (1997, 39 min.)

  In this program, Bill Moyers focuses on how children learn to hate, and how attitudes toward hatred differ from culture to culture. A youth of Arab-Israeli descent becomes friends with a young Orthodox Jew at an international training center that teaches youngsters the tools for dialogue and understanding. High school students in Bensonhurst analyze the origins of hatred against gays. In Washington, D.C., a Holocaust survivor teaches children how stereotyping breeds hatred, and how that hatred can lead to persecution. Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, Vaclav Havel, Li Lu, and Northern Ireland peace activist Mairead Corrigan Maguire share their own experiences with hatred and discuss the resolve that helped them deal with it.

• The Heart of Hatred (1997, 52 min.)
  This program features conversations with a variety of people who have explored the heart of hatred. A Los Angeles gang member uses hate as a survival weapon. White supremacist leader Tom Metzger defends his policies of hate both in a court of law and in interviews. A former Israeli soldier tells how he disguised himself as a Palestinian in order to better understand the source of his own hatred. High school students in Bensonhurst, New York, discuss the beating death of a black youth in their neighborhood, and Myrlie Evers, wife of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, talks about her own triumph over hate after her husband's untimely death. A man who physically abused his wife is presented as an example of people who act hatefully when their identity and self-esteem are threatened.

• Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland (1998, 60 min.)
  Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland is a recording of a live videoconference with Dr. Seamus Dunn, Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Recorded during the 1998 Global Studies Summer Institute entitled Cultural Differences in an Interdependent World: Exploring Global Conflict, this video explores the roots of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland and traces the prospects for peace that have developed following the Good Friday Agreement and the recent referendum.

• Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda (1997, 35 min.)
  In 1994, close to one million people were killed in a planned and systematic genocide in the African country of Rwanda. How did this carnage occur when the world declared after WWII that it would never tolerate such violence? Who was responsible? Why did the international community fail to respond? What role do we play as human rights advocates?

  This documentary attempts to answer these questions. Accompanied by an educational packet, the video examines Rwanda as a case study of the human rights challenge of the 21st century. Forsaken Cries incorporates historical footage of the colonial period, interviews with genocide survivors, and analyses of issues including: the international laws of genocide, a history of the Great Lakes region, the failure of the international community, US policy and non-governmental organizations, the refugee crises, women's human rights violations, the war crimes tribunal and the international criminal court. This video and curriculum guide was published by Amnesty International.

• Waging Peace (1997, 55 min.)

  This two-part documentary follows the "Tomorrow's Leaders" conference in Venice, Italy. The conference sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, brought together 30 teenagers from crisis areas around the world. Together, they used conflict resolution techniques to break the cycles of hatred and work toward peace. Teach your students about the history and current events of these areas (including the US, the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland), and expose them to role models of conflict resolution.

• Algerie: Parole de Femmes (1992, 30 min.)
  Women played a major role in the building of the new Algeria. Here women respond, some cautiously, some more outspokenly, to the early successes of the Islamic Salvation Front. What is their reaction now that democracy is once again in question?

• Exils (Exiles) (1995, 27 min.)
  These exilés have fled from Algeria to France in fear of violence against them for their beliefs and activities as journalists, civil servants, doctors, artists. They arrive in France with tourist visas or as refugees, welcomed by family and friends, unsure when they will ever return to their homeland, unsure if they can bear to stay away.

• Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts (Women with Open Eyes) (1994, 52 min.)
  A film about African women is a rarity, even more one made by an African woman. In "Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts" award-winning Togolese filmmaker Anne-Laure Folly presents portraits of contemporary African women in four West African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, and Benin. This film shows that women are organizing at the grassroots level to play a prominent role in Africa's current opening to democracy. It demonstrates why Africa's development is inextricably linked to the social and economic progress of its women.

• Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda (1997, 35 min.)
  In 1994, close to one million people were killed in a planned and systematic genocide in the African country of Rwanda. How did this carnage occur when the world declared after WWII that it would never tolerate such violence? Who was responsible? Why did the international community fail to respond? What role do we play as human rights advocates?

  This documentary attempts to answer these questions. Accompanied by an educational packet, the video examines Rwanda as a case study of the human rights challenge of the 21st century. Forsaken Cries incorporates historical footage of the colonial period, interviews with genocide survivors, and analyses of issues including: the international laws of genocide, a history of the Great Lakes region, the failure of the international community, US policy and non-governmental organizations, the refugee crises, women's human rights violations, the war crimes tribunal and the international criminal court. This video and curriculum guide was published by Amnesty International.

• Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995, 50 min.)
  "Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask" explores for the first time on film one of the most influential theorists of the anti-colonial movements of our century. Fanon's films represent pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and colonizer. Jean-Paul Sartre described Fanon as the figure "through whose voice the Third World finds and speaks to itself."

• East Asia in Transition (1996, 60 min.)

  Developed by the Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS), this multimedia unit is part of a 9-part series entitled "The World In Transition." East Asia in Transition includes a 220 page curriculum guide, which is intended to be used in conjunction with a 5-part videotape featuring excerpts from the 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995 meetings with the former U.S. Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, World Leaders, and U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations.

• The Middle East in Transition (1996, 60 min.)

  This multimedia unit is part of the Southern Center for International Studies' "The World in Transition" series, which includes a 138 page curriculum guide and a 5 part video tape featuring excerpts from recent meetings with former U.S. Secretaries of State.