News Release - October 14, 2009
Media Contact:
Lori Jacobs,
Director of Public Relations
lori.jacobs@cnu.edu
(757) 594-7961
(NEWPORT NEWS, VA) - Christopher Newport University's Program in International Conflict Management will host a lecture entitled: Lessons from Negotiating the Arab-Israeli Highway: One U.S. Negotiator Looks Back, featuring guest speaker Aaron David Miller, Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, Program in International Conflict Management. The lecture will take place on Thursday, October 15 at 12:30 p.m. in the David Student Union Ballroom. The lecture is free and open to the public. No reservation is required.
Aaron David Miller became a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in January 2006, where he wrote his fourth book: The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace, Bantam, 2008. For the prior two decades, he served at the Department of State as an advisor to six secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the Senior Advisor for Arab-Israeli Negotiations.
The lecture will be the second in a series presented as part of the GOVT 499 course: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Workshop, taught by Dr. Tina Kempin Reuter. For more information, please call (757) 594-7821 or visit government.cnu.edu.
A four-year public university in Newport News, Virginia, Christopher Newport University enrolls 5,000 students in rigorous academic programs through the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, and the College of Social Sciences including the Luter School of Business. CNU offers great teaching and small classes as well as an emphasis on leadership, civic engagement and honor. For more information about CNU and its programs,
please visit www.cnu.edu.