Dr. Lisa Schirch, a professor of peacebuilding and founding director of the 3D Security Initiative at Eastern Mennonite University's graduate Center for Justice & Peacebuilding, will deliver Bluffton University's Keeney Peace Lecture on Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Free and open to the public, her Bluffton Forum presentation, "Building Security from the Ground Up: How a Mennonite works with the U.S. military and Iraqi and Afghan community leaders to rethink U.S. strategy," will begin at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.

Schirch is a former Fulbright Fellow in Africa who has also worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and 20 other countries. She is the author of five books on conflict prevention and peacebuilding, as well as a frequent public speaker with television and radio experience discussing international relations.

She holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University.