Peter Maass is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and has reported on conflict situations across the globe, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil and Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, an award-winning memoir about covering the conflict in Bosnia. Maass was a Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University in 2008 and a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2009. Maass is working on a book that examines political icons of the past century. While a Reidy Fellow at the Center, he focused on the ways in which coverage of the statue-toppling in Baghdad’s Firdos Square framed public perceptions of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Oil and Conflict: A View from the Front Lines
April 15, 2010
April 15, 2010 – “Oil and Conflict: A View from the Front Lines.” Discussion and media presentation with Peter Maass, Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center; and photographer Ed Kashi. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
