{"id":238885,"date":"2010-01-27T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pon.harvard.edu\/?p=9606"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:42:54","slug":"oil-and-conflict-a-view-from-the-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238885","title":{"rendered":"Oil and Conflict: a View from the Front Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a discussion and media presentation of the role oil plays in global  conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Maass<\/strong>, <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em> writer and author  of <em>Crude World: The Violent Twiligh<\/em><em>t of Oil, <\/em>will discuss the power of oil  to fan the flames of existing problems and harm countries that possess large  quantities of it. His work has taken him to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Nigeria,  Venezuela, and Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned photographer <strong>Ed Kashi<\/strong> will share his  photographs and multimedia work on the Niger Delta, focusing on issues of oil,  development, environmental and economic destruction, sustainability, and our own  unavoidable connections to these dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 10,  2010, 7 pm.<br \/>\nPound Hall 102, Harvard Law School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This event is  co-sponsored by:<br \/>\nThe Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School<br \/>\nThe  Nieman Foundation for Journalism<br \/>\nThe Shorenstein Center on the Press,  Politics, and Public Policy<\/p>\n<p>Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a discussion and media presentation of the role oil plays in global conflict. Peter Maass, New York Times Magazine writer and author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, will discuss the power of oil to fan the flames of existing problems and harm countries that possess large quantities of it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}