William Peace University Continues Speaker Series with Dr. Peter Mandaville Today

William Peace University (www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that it is continuing its with a presentation and discussion by Dr. Peter Mandaville, The event will be held today, March 6, 2014 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Kenan Auditorium located at 15 East Peace St.

"We are excited to host another great speaker with Dr. Mandaville here at William Peace University," said Debra M. Townsley, Ph.D., president of William Peace University. "He will be able to offer our students a unique perspective and outlook on culture in the Middle East, teaching them things they will be sure to remember and reflect on."

The event is free and open to the public; however, registration is required. For more information on the event, as well as registration, visit: https://wpeaceu.wufoo.com/forms/wpu-speaker-series-201314.

University Speaker Series a nonresident senior fellow with the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings, director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, and associate professor of government at George Mason University. Born and raised in the Middle East, Mandaville's work is focused on the comparative study of religious authority and social movements in the Muslim world, with an emphasis on youth groups, transnational networks, and new media. He has conducted research in Muslim settings such as Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and West Africa, and is most recently the author of Global Political Islam, a broad global overview of Islamic social and political movements. Additionally, Mandaville has testified before the U.S. Congress on Islamic radicalism and authored numerous book chapters and journal articles, and has contributed to publications such as Foreignpolicy.com, the International Herald Tribune and The Guardian.

William Peace University is located in the heart of Raleigh, North Carolina. It was founded in 1857 as Peace Institute, offering education for boys and girls in primary grades and to women from high school to college. Peace, an all- women's college, became a four-year baccalaureate college and graduated its first bachelor's students in August of 1996. Exclusively an all-women's institution for its first 152 years, Peace began offering coeducational evening courses through the William Peace School of Professional Studies in 2009. In 2011, Peace College transitioned to William Peace University and welcomed its first coeducational class to its day program in fall 2012. Its mission is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. On average, more than 90 percent of the university's graduates are placed in jobs or graduate school within one year of graduation. For more information, visit www.peace.edu.