4th Annual Fall Peace Forum: David Cortright, "How to Stabilize Iraq and Reduce the Global Terrorist Threat" with Respondent Van Gosse

Sunday, November 11, 2007
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Church of the Apostles • 1850 Marietta Avenue • Lancaster PA

At our 4th Annual Fall Peace Gathering, David Cortright, PhD, international consultant and research fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, addressed the topic "How to Stabilize Iraq and Reduce the Global Terrorist Threat". The event was held at Church of the Apostles in Lancaster from 3 to 5 pm on Sunday, November 11, 2007.

The event was open to the public at no charge. A free-will offering was taken.

The expertise of Dr. Cortright and his colleague at Notre Dame, Dr. George A. Lopez, was recently cited by United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon for their work on sanctions as team members of the Sanctions and Security Project.

Along with his work at Notre Dame, David Cortright is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, IN and has advised several agencies of the United Nations. He has also consulted with the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In addition, he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the Foreign Ministry of Germany.

Dr. Cortright spent 10 years as the director of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), a disarmament organization. He teaches in the peace studies department at Goshen College and at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute. He is a member of the board of directors of Sojourners.

He earned his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Notre Dame, his master of arts at New York University and his doctorate in political science from Union Graduate School (The Union Institute) in Washington, DC. He served stateside in the U. S. Army during the Vietnam War.

Dr. Cortright has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking. His most recent books include Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolent in an Age of Terrorism; a new edition of Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance during the Vietnam War and A Peaceful Superpower: The Movement Against War. His latest book, Building Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas, will be published in 2008.

Van Gosse, is Asst. Prof. of History at Franklin & Marshall College. He is a prolific author of books and papers on American political history, including the recent Black Power in White America (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), and Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History (Palgrace MacMillan, 2005).