CNN correspondent Siobhan Darrow will discuss and sign copies of her just-released book, Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter (Anchor Books, 2002) at 8 P.M. on Monday, January 28 in the UCSB Corwin Pavilion.  Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, copies of Flirting with Danger will be available for purchase and signing at this event.

An Emmy-nominated correspondent, Darrow has worked for CNN for fifteen years, reporting from numerous world hotspots including Chechnya, the Balkans, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. She was based at CNN's bureaus in Moscow and London.

 Siobhan Darrow is a correspondent based at CNN's London news bureau. Siobhan has been CNN's Moscow correspondent since 1993, and was a producer and correspondent for CNN in Moscow since the 1991 coup.  Siobhan reported from inside the White House and the Kremlin during CNN's award-winning coverage of the October siege in 1993. She was nominated for an Emmy award for her reports filed from Chechnya in 1994.  She has also covered civil wars in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Croatia.

 As well as covering political events, she has also presented a number of in-depth series about deep social changes in the former Soviet Union, including a special series on Russian women and a series on life in the Central Asian Republics.  

Darrow began her career with CNN in 1986, working on the international assignment desk in Atlanta. She worked first as a producer and later as senior producer for CNN's World Report, as well as producing The International Hour. As a correspondent, Darrow also covered the historic PLO-Israeli peace agreement from Jordan in 1993.

A graduate of Duke University, Darrow earned a bachelor's degree in Russian language and literature, and later studied at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. Darrow is a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The "Global Peace, Security, and Human Rights" lecture series is sponsored by the UC Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Global and International Studies Program, Global Peace and Security Program and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. It is being put on in partnership with the Santa Barbara Committee on Foreign Relations, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, PAX 2100, International Studies Association at Santa Barbara City College, and the International Studies Program at Ventura College.