The Foreign Service Journal, November 2004

Earlier he was deputy director of the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program at the U.S. Department of Justice, responsible for police training programs in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor. Before joining the Foreign Service, Perito was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria. A Sense of Place: Discovering the Stratton Open Space Ruth Obee, Blue River Publishing, Inc., 2002, $9.99, paperback, 86 pages. The Kentucky writer Wendell Berry said that if you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are. In 1998, an ecologically varied 300-acre site overlook- ing the city of Colorado Springs called the “Stratton land” was saved in perpetuity as open space after a sus- tained and unprecedented community-wide effort. This slim volume brings together the words of a poet, the notes of a botanist and biologist, and the images of a landscape painter, watercolor artist and photographer to celebrate what the Stratton land has come to mean to those who live there and to the many summer visi- tors who come to enjoy its beauty. Author Ruth Obee, born and raised in Idaho, lived for 14 years with her FSO husband in South Asia and Africa. Presently a resident of Colorado Springs, she is also the author of Es’kia Mphahlele: Themes of Alienation and African Humanism (1999). Forgiveness in International Politics: An Alternative Road to Peace William Bole, Drew Christiansen SJ, and Robert T. Hennemeyer, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004, $19.95, paperback, 220 pages. In a time of suicide bombings, eth- nic and nationalistic conflicts and the global war on terrorism, the idea that forgiveness F O C U S 22 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 4