Daniel Pearl's Wife Urges Dialogue to Tackle Issues

Two monologues don't make a dialogue.

Journalist Mariane Pearl, wife of Daniel Pearl-the Wall Street Journal reporter killed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002-encouraged embracing dialogue as a tool to combat violence and terrorism in a speech sponsored by the Baldwin Scholars.

"Dialogue is the way to embrace differences," Pearl said. "I'm just introducing this idea that dialogue is not a nice, cute thing. It's become more and more a survival tool for our planet."

Speaking in Page Auditorium Tuesday night, Pearl said she has made telling her story her life's mission, partly, she admits, out of revenge, but mostly to promote global cooperation. She believes her husband was taken captive because of who he was-American, Jewish, a journalist-and that by taking him, the terrorists hoped to spread fear.

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