Movies and justice at Whitworth

Following in the wake of the inaugural Human Rights Film Festival that was held earlier this week at the Gonzaga University Law School, a group of students participating in the nonviolent defense and conflict-resolution class led by Whitworth professor John Yoder are sponsoring a screening of “The Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival.”

Four films will be featured in the festival, which well be held at 6 tonight and Thursday, and on April 23 and 24. Facilitators will lead question-and-answer sessions following the movies tonight and Thursday, while guest speakers will give presentations and facilitate question-and-answer sessions on April 23 and 24.

For more information on the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in general, please see the Human Rights Watch Web site. The festival’s organizer is Benjamin Metcalf . The films will be shown in Whitworth’s Seeley Mudd Chapel at Whitworth. Admission is free.

Tonight: “The War Photographer”

Thursday: “The Pinochet Case”

April 23: “Afghanistan 1380.” Guest speaker: Greg Shortreed of Mercy Corps International.

April 24: “The Last Just Man.” Guest speaker: James Waller, psychology professor and Lindaman Chair at Whitworth College, and author of “Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing” (Oxford University Press, 2002).