David Krieger, PhD
\nPresident, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
\nSanta Barbara, California<\/p>\n
Thursday, February 12, 2009
\n6pm to 8pm
\nHonolulu Friends Meeting House
\n2426 O`ahu Avenue
\nHonolulu, Hawai`i
\nFree and open to the public<\/p>\n
David Krieger is a founder and President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, which has initiated many innovative and important projects for building peace, strengthening international law and abolishing nuclear weapons. Dr. Krieger will speak about the challenges and prospects of abolishing nuclear weapons under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n
He has lectured widely on issues of peace, security, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons and is the author of many studies of peace in the Nuclear Age, including The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (based on a recent conference organized by Hawai’i’s Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research). He serves on the Boards of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, the International Institute for Peace, the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence and Mayors for Peace. He also served as panel chair of the Citizens’ Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq and as a member of the Jury of Conscience of the World Tribunal on Iraq.<\/p>\n
Co-sponsors: American Friends Service Committee – Hawai’i, DMZ-Hawai’i \/ Aloha \u2018Aina, Pacific Justice and Reconcilliation Center, Matsunaga Institute for Peace-UH Manoa, \u2018Ohana Koa\/ Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific.<\/p>\n
For more information, please contact: Richard at (808) 956-3712 or Terri at (808) 988-6266<\/p>\n