{"id":5838,"date":"2016-08-16T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2016-09-14T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:43:44","slug":"sociology-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/08\/16\/sociology-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many are sure to\u00a0remember the historic peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and Palestine leader Yasser Arafat in 1993, negotiations which were facilitated by the White House. The iconic pictures of a smiling Rabin, Arafat, and then-president Bill Clinton were facilitated by secret talks in Oslo, Norway, and the story of these negotiations are the subject of the new play <\/span>Oslo,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>which is set to appear on Broadway next spring. As described in an <\/span>article<\/span><\/a> on The Voice of America<\/em>, the talks were actually set in motion by sociologist <\/span>Terje R\u00f8d-Larsen\u00a0<\/span><\/a>and his wife Mona Juul, a foreign-service officer. The play captures the unique story of these talks, where R\u00f8d-Larsen and Juul facilitated a new kind of negotiation. R\u00f8d-Larsen\u00a0describes below:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe did it in a way, exactly the opposite way of what it was done in Washington. We did not put proposals on the table. We said we would facilitate, bring the parties together, be go-between, assist them in any way, saying\u00a0<\/span>\u2018It\u2019s your problem, you have to resolve it yourself. We don\u2019t want to push anything on you.\u2019 And number two, we set up the delegations, should never exceed three persons on each side, because trust is dependent on personal relationships and to build personal relationships. And then we also insisted that they should live in the same house. They should have all meals together; breakfast, lunch and dinner. When there were breaks they could go for walks together, etc. They had to\u00a0<\/span>live <\/span><\/i>together.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The play captures the intertwined nature of the personal and the political, while highlighting the effectiveness of such methods. Of course, the play isn\u2019t some dry paper; the actors have described making the play as a \u201cwild improvisation\u201d and it\u2019s being called a great thriller. Playwright J.T Rogers\u2019 <\/span>Oslo<\/span><\/i> has sold out at the Lincoln Center, and is sure to be a hit on Broadway, meaning the story of this little sociological experiment is far from curtains.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many are sure to\u00a0remember the historic peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and Palestine leader Yasser Arafat in 1993, negotiations which were facilitated by the White House. The iconic pictures of a smiling Rabin, Arafat, and then-president Bill Clinton were facilitated by secret talks in Oslo, Norway, and the story of these negotiations are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,85],"tags":[40339,39112,40338,39115],"class_list":["post-5838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","tag-broadway","tag-culture","tag-oslo","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5844,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}