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Oct. 7, 2002 UNM’s Diplomat in Residence and UNM political science professor to present at town hall on global response to terrorism Richele Keller, diplomat in residence for the United States Department of State at the University of New Mexico, and Mark Peceny, UNM associate professor of political science, will present at a town hall, “A Global Response to Terrorism,” Thursday, Oct. 24. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Center, 4000 St. Joseph Place, NW in Albuquerque. As part of Worldwide United Nation Day, Keller will discuss the United States position as it relates to the topic. Peceny will discuss the role of the United Nations. A senior foreign service officer, Keller has 25 years of service with the Department of State and has worked in about 50 countries and lived in six. Her last overseas posting was as regional consular officer for Southern Africa, based in Johannesburg at the time of the democratic transition from 1993 to 1996. Keller also served as consul in Prague at the time of the Velvet Revolution from 1989-1990.  Peceny’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of international relations, American foreign policy and inter-American relations, with specific focus on “democratic peace” and US military interventions. He has published in International Studies Quarterly, the Latin American Research Review and the Journal of Peace Research and a book titled “Democracy at the Point of Bayonets” on the promotion of democracy during US military interventions. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Eric Sirotkin, lawyer for the international monitor of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Emad Fraitekh, executive web producer for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, will present alternative views to the topic. ###

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