Dr. Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University and the Co-Director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University, will speak on the costs and consequences of the post- 9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria.

Co-sponsored by the East Providence Public Library, the Mission and Justice Committee of the Barrington Congregational Church UCC, and the East Bay Citizens for Peace, an organization committed to peaceful solutions to conflict and to social and economic justice through the promotion of open, respectful dialogue.