A National Treasure

of Three Countries.

Diana Villiers Negroponte, JD, PHD. is a National Treasure of the US where she resides and has been a Senior Fellow at Brookings, with a Georgetown PHD and law degree from American University. She is also a National Treasure of Great Britain, has a degree from the London School of Economics (LSE) and speaks with an accent befitting Royalty. She has taught at Fordham in New York and at Georgetown. She is also now a National Treasure of El Salvador and great friend of that country to hear the El Salvadoran Embassy people speak about her and her great contribution to and love of their country's peace following the brutal civil war. Her new book, "Seeking Peace in El Salvador: The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War" is now available and promises to be a peacemaking primer for those who study peacebuilding. This evening at the World Affairs Council in Washington, she spoke of the history of the horrors of that civil war that brought a lot of immigration to this country as people fled the daily horrors of violent brutality that victimized obscene numbers of the population. She spoke of the role of ONUSAL, the UN peacekeeping observer group that tried to keep a fragile peace that is being undermined by the drug gang violence. She spoke most movingly of the history of the assassination of the Archbishop Romero who was targetted after he instructed people to violate army orders and not shoot their compatriots and the shooting of the six Jesuit martyrs and their housekeeper and her daughter which mobilized an American Congressman from Massachusetts to demand answers. She said she shows the movie "Romero" to all her students. I agree, its a must see.
Dr. Negraponte is an extremely impressive diplomat who has worked through civil systems as humbly as astutely, giving of herself to Habitat for Humanity in Mexico building homes, the Salvation Army's efforts in various Central American places and on church related missions in El Salvador. Extremely impressive woman.
She should be on the short list for Secretary of State - in any of at least three countries.

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