Findlay, Ohio, March 26, 2002 — James Satterwhite, professor of history and political science at Bluffton College, will lecture on the topic “The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” Tuesday, April 9, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in Pfeiffer Lecture Hall, Gardner Fine Arts Pavilion.

Satterwhite has been an active member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, an initiative of the Mennonite, Church of the Brethren and Quaker faiths, in Hebron, West Bank (Palestine) for the last four summers. His presentation will be based on his actual experiences in the West Bank, and he will attempt to place the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the larger historical context.

The son of medical missionaries, Satterwhite spent most of his young life in Japan. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida and then taught through an exchange program in Czechoslovakia and Poland for more than three years. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in East European studies from the University of Washington and has taught at Bluffton College since 1984.

Satterwhite was an observer in Chechnya during the war in 1996 and worked with Serbian human rights groups in Belgrade in 1997 on Kosovo-related issues.

The lecture is free and open to the public.