On Wednesday, October 16th, Christian Science Monitor Columnist Helena Cobban spoke at the Miller Center on "Israel and Palestine: The Continuing Crisis."

Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher on international affairs. She contributes a regular column to The Christian Science Monitor and to the London-based Arabic-language daily, Al-Hayat. She is the author of five books, the latest of which, The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss our Global Future was published by the University Press of Virginia in May 2000.

Ms. Cobban currently has an affiliation with the University of Virginia as Senior Global Affairs Fellow with the university's Institute for Practical Ethics. In mid-2002, she was a member of an international Quaker Working Party on the Israel-Palestine Conflict. She is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and sits on the Middle East advisory committee of Human Rights Watch.

Helena Cobban's recent Miller Center Forum will be broadcast on Charlottesville Public Access T.V. on October 30 at 9pm and October 31 at 12 noon. CPATV can be found on Channel 13 of the Adelphia Cable TV system (serving most of the city and scattered areas in the county). Your Forum will also be available on the Miller Center website (www.millercenter.virginia.edu) under the "Multimedia" section within a week.

You will need to have the media application "RealPlayer" in order to view. If you don't have this application you can obtain a free copy from www.realnetworks.com.

In a related matter, see Stop Ethnic Cleansing in the Mideast Before It Starts.