[Mitworld] Lawrence Susskind on Negotiating the Gulf Disaster, Anna Badkhen on Peace Meals

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 23 |  January 10, 2011

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Negotiating the Gulf Disaster
October 26, 2010

The Gulf Oil spill hurt many individuals and businesses, and there is broad agreement that they deserve 
compensation. But working out the nuances of damage payment is no simple matter, as Lawrence Susskind 
describes in conversation with an MIT Museum audience. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/851

Speaker:
Lawrence Susskind MCP '70, PhD '73
Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT
 Director, Public Disputes Program and Visiting Professor, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"There is a big experiment going on. We’re not used to doing it this way, at this scale. What should 
we be learning from this? Is this an improvement from the Exxon Valdez?"
-Lawrence Susskind

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Peace Meals
October 19, 2010

While breaking bread around the world with friends and families suffering through war and deprivation, 
Anna Badkhen managed to compile not just a vivid chronicle of lives under duress, but a cookbook. 
In this dialogue with MIT political scientist Fotini Christia, Badkhen describes her new work, 
Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/853

Speakers:
Anna Badkhen 
Journalist and Author, Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories

Fotini Christia
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, MIT


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"How do you put the Bush decade in a way we can all relate to? You discuss it over dinner. I tried to 
invite the people who made a deep impression on me in reporting to the dinner table, and talk on a 
human level about what it was like to survive the decade."
-Anna Badkhen

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In The Pipeline:

An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out

Presented By:
School of Engineering
Distinguished Lecture Series

Speaker:
Kent Kresa
Chairman Emeritus
Northrop Grumman Corporation

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