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The War on Terrorism at 364 Days: Wrestling With Hard Questions
National Experts to Debate Controversial Issues Sept. 10 at Simmons College Forum

BOSTON (September 3, 2002) - America is on the march against terrorism. Are we marching in the right direction with the right weapons? How will we know when to stop? Will our friends join us, should we care if they do not, and who are our friends anyway? Could we win battles, and in winning them sow the seeds for losing the war?

On Tuesday, Sept. 10 , the day before the first anniversary of terrorists' bombing of the World Trade Center, five national experts who have struggled with these questions will exchange views in a Simmons College forum, which is free and open to the public. The forum, "The War on Terrorism at 364 Days," will be from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Simmons Conference Center, Main Campus Building, 300 The Fenway, Boston. Audience questions will follow the discussion.

Participants include:

— Philip C. Wilcox Jr., president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace in Washington, D.C., and former Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-Terrorism in the U.S. State Department; former American Consul General in Jerusalem.

— Sarah Sewall, program director at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Sewall was the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance, and senior foreign policy advisor to former Sen. George Mitchell. She has written extensively on the use of force, peacekeeping, multilateralism and the International Criminal Court.

— Carl Greenbaum, an expert on information technology's complex link with international terrorism. Greenbaum is associate technical director for Space, Intelligence and Information Operations at the Mitre Corporation.

— Andrew Bacevich, director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, an expert in security policy, and a BU professor. Bacevich's latest book, "American Empire: the Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy," is scheduled for publication later this year.

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