Provocate.org

Phillip Wilcox entered the US Foreign Service before the Six Day War in 1967. Find out if he has figured out a Middle East solution yet.

When: Sunday October 28 1:00-8:30 PM
Where: North United Methodist Church

For more information about registering and paying, contact hgdg@aol.com (attn: Henry Gerner)

A rough schedule for the day:

1:00-4:00 two rounds of three workshops:

• What’s happening with the “final status” issues? Security? Withdrawal of settlements? Borders? Refugees? Water rights?
• Christian theology and Zionism
• Videos of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

4:15-5:45 Amb. Philip Wilcox on “The Next Step in the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process: How Diplomacy Can Bring Peace”

6:15-7:15 Middle Eastern dinner

7:30-8:30 Q&A with Wilcox

Retired Ambassador Philip Wilcox, now head of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, comes to Indianapolis courtesy of Christians for Peace & Justice in the Middle East. Who is Wilcox?

Ambassador Philip C. Wilcox, Jr. (Ret.) is President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, a Washington D.C.-based foundation devoted to fostering peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Wilcox retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in September 1997 after 31 years of service. Born in Denver, Colorado on February 1, 1937, Wilcox attended public schools, graduated from Williams College with a BA in History in 1958, and obtained an LL.B. from the Stanford Law School in 1961. After law school, Wilcox taught school in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and practiced law for three years in Denver with the firm of Holme, Roberts & Owen.

Wilcox entered the Foreign Service in 1966 and has served abroad at U.S. Embassies as Press Attache in Vientiane, Laos, Political and Economic/Commercial Officer in Jakarta, Indonesia, and as Chief of the Economic/Commercial Section in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His last overseas assignment was as Chief of Mission and U.S. Consul General, Jerusalem. In the Department of State, Wilcox has served as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Management, Deputy Director for UN Political Affairs in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, and in the Bureau for Middle Eastern and South Asian Affairs as Director for Regional Affairs, Director for Israeli and Arab-Israeli Affairs and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs. He also served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research and as Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Counter Terrorism.

After his retirement, Wilcox was appointed by the Secretary of State to serve as a member of an Accountability Review Board, chaired by Admiral William Crowe (ret.) to examine and make recommendations concerning the terrorist bombing of the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998. Wilcox speaks French and Indonesian. He is a graduate of the National War College, and has been awarded the Department of State’s Meritorious, Superior, and Presidential Honor Awards. He is a board member of the Middle East Institute and Americans for Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) and a member of The Washington Institute for Foreign Affairs and Dacor-Bacon House.

CPJME stirs controversy among many supporters of Israel. A fitting counter-balance to this event would be the September 17 talk at the Jewish Community Center by Alvin Rosenfeld “The New Jewish Anti-Semitism” — both will reveal aspects of the passions and anxieties here in Indianapolis on the different sides of the conflict in the Middle East.

Bookmark to:

This entry was posted on Monday, September 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 pm and is filed under Events, Foreign policy, Jews & Judaism, Islam & Muslims, Christianity & Christians, Human and civil rights, War & peace, Empire, Citizen Diplomacy, Middle East. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.