Film

Mann, M. (Director). (1999). The insider [Film]. Touchstone Pictures; Blue Lion Entertainment; Forward Pass.
A journalist persuades a source to go on the record, and the risk of that decision falls almost entirely on the source rather than on the journalist who asked for it. The whole film sits on this section’s first two questions: whose risk changes, and did that person choose it knowing what it involved.

McCarthy, T. (Director). (2015). Spotlight [Film]. Participant Media; First Look Media; Anonymous Content.
An investigative team argues about whether to publish the individual cases now or wait and document the structure behind them. It is the clearest dramatisation of the trade-off between acting immediately for the person in front of you and acting in a way that survives next week, and of what deliberate non-action costs while it lasts.

Reading

Anderson, M. B. (1999). Do no harm: How aid can support peace or war. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
The source of the principle that an intervention is judged by its effects on the people it affects rather than by the intentions behind it. Written for humanitarian practice, and the logic transfers directly to any situation where help redistributes risk.

Lederach, J. P. (2005). The moral imagination: The art and soul of building peace. Oxford University Press.
On why responsible action in conflict is usually modest, slow and relational rather than decisive. Useful counterweight for anyone who finished the course wanting a technique.

Scott, J. C. (1990). Domination and the arts of resistance: Hidden transcripts. Yale University Press.
What people actually do when open objection is too expensive. The best corrective to reading silence or compliance as consent, and the strongest case that deliberate non-action is a strategy rather than an absence of one.