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Patricia Carley, program officer in the Research and Studies Program, discussed the European Union's rejection of Turkey's membership application and the conflict in Tajikistan on CNN International in December.

An op-ed essay on the Cyprus conflict's threat to NATO by Louis J. Klarevas, research associate in the Education and Training Program, appeared in the Washington Post January 2.

Neil J. Kritz, senior scholar in the Rule of Law Initiative, discussed transitional justice at a February 2 conference on "Peace vs. Justice" in New York City, sponsored by the Bar Association of the City of New York. In January, he did an hour-long radio interview about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on station KPCC, a National Public Radio station in Los Angeles.

Steve Riskin, program officer in the Grant Program, discussed President Clinton's meetings with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasir Arafat for an article in Bazler Zeitung, a Swiss newspaper.

A case study on North Korea's nuclear program by Scott Snyder, program officer in the Research and Studies Program, was recently published in The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention, edited by David Cortright. Snyder's article on "Deterrence, Diplomacy, and Crisis Management: Choices in U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula" will appear in a special edition of the Korean Journal of National Unification.

Barbara Wien, program officer in the Education and Training Program, was elected to chair the annual convention of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development (COPRED)—a group of peace researchers, activists, and educators—to be held at Bethel College, Kansas, April 3-5. The conference, "Fifty Years of Peace Education and Activism: Reflecting on the Past, Pioneering the Future," will commemorate a number of key anniversaries in 1998, including the establishment of the first degree program in peace and conflict studies at a U.S. university (Manchester College, 1948), the anniversaries of the deaths of Gandhi (1948) and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968), and the centennial of the Spanish American War.

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