See the Video... All are in Quicktime Format Steve York (Producer/Director/Writer) introduces the film.   Fletcher Dean Stephen W. Bosworth serving as moderator, introduces the members of the panel.  See the Question and Answer period following the film.     Download Quicktime Player here

institutionalized thuggery, ethnic cleansing and demagogues -- the regime of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic stands out. Indeed, his 11-year reign ranks among the century’s bloodiest.

Now, at a time when Milosevic finds himself before a criminal Tribunal at the Hague, personally representing himself against charges of war crimes, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts hosted a timely advance screening and discussion  about the issues raised by an important new PBS documentary, "Bringing Down a Dictator."

The program is co-sponsored by The Fletcher School and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

At a time when the war on terrorism has taken center stage and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to be spiraling out of control, this event is part of an outreach effort to inform policymakers, students and journalists concerning the resolution of conflict. Similar screenings have been held at the National Press Club (Washington, D.C.), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, D.C.), the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the Council of Foreign Relations in both New York and Washington, D.C.

"Bringing Down a Dictator" focuses on the extraordinary story of the overthrow of the "Butcher of the Balkans" by a brash but avowedly nonviolent group of student revolutionaries whose weapons included ridicule, Rock N' Roll, a natural flair for marketing and the creation of a sophisticated bilingual website.

The documentary already is drawing praise and comment in the nation's media, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly.

With Fletcher Dean Stephen W. Bosworth serving as moderator, a panel discussion was held after the screening, featuring:

* Peter Ackerman (Executive Producer). An internationally recognized scholar and teacher on strategic nonviolent conflict who was the program’s principal content advisor. Dr. Ackerman holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School where he is currently Chairman of the Board of Overseers. His books include Strategic Nonviolent Conflict; The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century and A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict.

* Steve York (Producer/Director/Writer). An award-winning filmmaker of documentaries for network and public television, Mr. York won a 1991 Peabody for the ABC News Special, Pearl Harbor: Two Hours That Changed the World. His documentary, The Supreme Court of the United States, was a 1997 Gold Award winner at the Houston International Film Festival. Most recently, he produced and directed the Emmy-nominated PBS series "A Force More Powerful" and the feature film by the same title.

* Ivan Marovic (student leader). One of the founders of the resistance organization called Otpor (which means resistance in Serbian), Mr. Marovic was an engineering student at Belgrade University. He now serves with the equivalent of the coast guard in Belgrade, where he remains active in Otpor.

* The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

* Professor Alan K. Henrikson, Director, The Fletcher Roundtable on a
New World Order, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University