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CU-Boulder's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research will host a public debate on current American foreign policy, including the recent preemptive invasion of Iraq by the United States.
The event will be held on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in room 250 of the Eaton Humanities Center. The Eaton Humanities Center is located on the Norlin Quadrangle northwest of CU-Boulder's Norlin Library. The event is free and open to the public.
The debaters will speak briefly for and against the resolution, which states, "Resolved, that the United States should use military force preemptively to meet the threats posed by hostile nations and groups seeking to acquire nuclear, biological or chemical weapons."
The debate features Professor Thomas Zeiler, chair of CU's history department, who will argue for the resolution, and Professor Roger Pielke Jr., director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, who will argue against it The center is part of the CU-based Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences.
The debate also will include two environmental sciences graduate students, Eduoard Vonherberstein and Elizabeth McNie, who respectively support and oppose the resolution.
After their opening statements, the debaters will take questions from the audience.
This debate is one of a series being held across the country to develop opinions on U.S. foreign policy as part of "The People Speak: America Debates its Role in the World." The event is one of roughly 1,000 similar debates taking place in hundreds of locations around the country.
The debates are jointly funded by the United Nations Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as part of their ongoing missions to support grassroots community involvement in foreign policy.
For more information, contact CU-Boulder researcher Radford Byerly at (303) 735-4174 or by email hrbyerly@comcast.net or Jim Scott in the CU-Boulder News Office at 303-492-3114.