Dr. Mitchell G. Bard "Israel: Terrorism, Jihad, and the Peace Process"  Corwin Pavilion, UCSB University Center / February 12, 2002 / 7:30 pm / FREE

Mitchell Bard is the Executive Director of the nonprofit AMERICAN-ISRAELI COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE (AICE) and a foreign policy analyst who lectures frequently on U.S.-Middle East policy.

For three years he was the editor of the Near East Report, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 's (AIPAC) weekly newsletter on U.S. Middle East policy. Prior to working at AIPAC, Dr. Bard was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Irvine where he collaborated on a book examining the politics behind the rescue of Ethiopian Jews. He also served as a senior analyst in the polling division of the 1988 Bush campaign.

Dr. Bard's work has appeared in academic journals, magazines and major newspapers. He is the author of The Water's Edge And Beyond: Defining the Limits to Domestic Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy; Partners for Change: How U.S.-Israel Cooperation Can Benefit America; U.S.-Israel Relations: Looking to the Year 2000 and coauthor of Myths And Facts: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict . His most recent work is: Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps (HarperCollins/Westview Press).

He also edited three studies published by AICE: Learning Together: Israeli Innovations In Education That Could Benefit Americans ;Experience Counts: Innovative Programs For The Elderly In Israel That Can Benefit Americans and Breakthrough Dividend: Israeli Innovations In Biotechnology That Could Benefit Americans . He is also author of the forthcoming study, Building Bridges: Lessons For America From Novel Israeli Approaches to Promoting Coexistence.

Bard holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a master's degree in public policy from Berkeley. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a member of the United Jewish Appeal Speakers Bureau. He lives in Maryland with his wife Marcela and sons Ariel and Daniel.
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