Video Clips
During the summer of 2006, NPR Producer Tracy Wahl and Center Director Karen Engle conducted interviews with a number of individuals who had worked with George Lister in various capacities. Video clips of those interviews and their full transcripts will eventually be available on a website dedicated to George Lister's papers. Below are a few clips that relate directly to the themes of the conference.
George Lister's Style
- William
D. Rogers on Lister as an "anti-bureaucrat"
William D. Rogers, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1974–1976) - Joseph
Eldridge on Lister's work with NGOs in the human rights movement
Joseph Eldridge, Former Director, Washington Office on Latin America (1974–1986)
Cold War Diplomacy before the Bureau
- Richard
Schifter on the beginnings of the human rights movement
Richard Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1985–1992) - John
Shattuck on the Alliance for Progress
John Shattuck, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Democracy and Labor (1993–1998)
The Human Rights Bureau and the Institutionalization of Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
- John
Salzberg on the legacy of the Fraser Subcommittee
John Salzberg, Former Legislative Aid to Don Fraser - Harold
Hongju Koh on Lister's influence in the human rights bureaucracy
Harold Hongju Koh, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1998–2001)
Deploying Human Rights: Chile
- Claudio
Grossman on the role of the State Department in Chile
Claudio Grossman, Former Chilean Political Exile - Edmundo
Vargas Carreño on Lister's unique role in connecting the Chilean opposition
to the State Department
Edmundo Vargas Carreño, Former Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, OAS
Lister’s Legacy: Human Rights, Democracy and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1981–1985) - Diane La Voy
Diane La Voy, Founder, Washington Office on Latin America (1974) - Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1998–2001)