Ambassador Warren Clark will speak at PSR Chapel, Tuesday, March 2. MDiv student Jeff Crews will be convening.
Ambassador Clark, executive director of Churches for Middle-East Peace, was formerly a careerU.S. Foreign Service officer in the Department of State, serving in the Middle East, Europe, Canada, Africa, and at the United Nations. He was charge d’affaires in Lagos, Nigeria; U.S. ambassador in Libreville, Gabon; and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa. He represented the U.S. on Middle East and African issues in the U.N. Security Council and led a study group on the Middle East at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Clark holds a B.A. from Williams College and graduate degrees from Harvard, Georgetown, and John Hopkins universities.
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is a coalition combining the endeavors of U.S. Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Churches to focus advocacy efforts directly on U.S. policy. CMEP strives to shape a more constructive U.S. policy toward the Middle East. They are dedicated to the pursuit of a just and peaceful resolution of the Arab and Israeli conflict and to other disputes that affect the region.
Ambassador Clark will be bringing information from Washington, DC on current negotiations for peace in the Middle East with a topic of “What You Can Do to Help Bring Peace to the Holy Land.”
