Divestment and the Boundaries of Conscience

Robert Massie‘s talk aims to bring together a lifetime’s work on divestment, with particular reference to the anti-apartheid struggle, by discussing divestment as an instrument of social justice and moral change. What challenges do activists face when invoking divestment? What can divestment accomplish? What are its limits? Where can it work, and where not?

Massie is the author of “Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa During the Apartheid Years” (1998). He is a Princeton graduate, and an architect and chronicler of the struggle for divestment at Princeton and throughout the country. He’s currently Senior Research Scholar and Co-Director of SIRI Pathways to Consensus at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.