Bridge Builders in the Kashmir Conflict

The human dimension and the role of civil society

Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:15pm

Location: Founders Room, School of International Service, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

The Center for Social Media is cosponsoring a special screening of "A Journey through the River Vitasta," in support of student documentary work. The film's director Pawan Bali is enrolled in the SIS International Peace and Conflict Resolution masters program.

From the Conciliation Resources website:

This is the first documentary film to be shot on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC).

Making the film was a significant success in itself as the two journalists who produced it – Mohammad Arif Urfi and Pawan Bali – are from either side of the LoC in Kashmir and were not able to meet in their home region. In the final two minutes of the film they talk about their own experience of working together across the divide.

• Find out more about how this film came to be produced.
• Read Pawan Bali's reflections on making the film: The process is the message.
• Discover how trade is helping to build confidence in cross-LoC relations

Exploring the Kashmir Conflict through Multiple Lenses

Tuesday, December 4, 6:30pm, Founders Room, SIS

• FILM SCREENING: " A Journey through the River Vitasta" with an introduction from IPCR MA student and filmmaker, Pawan Bali ('14).
• PRESENTATION/COMMENTARY: Dr. Nyla Ali Khan, author of The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism (2005), Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashimir: Between India and Pakistan (2010), and editor of Parchment of Kashmir: History, Society, and Policy (2012).
• PRESENTATIONS: SIS graduate students who have lived and studied in the region.
• DISCUSSION: Audience Q&A and interaction with presenters.

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