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Honorary Sponsors

	Máiread Corrigan Maguire Northern Ireland Nobel Peace Laureate (1976), Máiread is Honorary President and co-founder, with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People, an organization which attempts to encourage a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. She also was one of the founders of The Nobel Women's Initiative and is member of the Honorary board of the International Coalition for the Decade of the culture of Peace and Nonviolence. See expanded biography.
	Federico Mayor Zaragoza Spain Dr. Mayor Zaragoza is President of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace, Co-President for the UN High Level Group for the Alliance of Civilizations, member of the Honorary Board of the International Coalition for the Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence and Honorary Chairman of the Académie de la Paix. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999, establishing the Culture of Peace Program and fostering the adoption of the Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence. As a biochemist he was also one of the founders of the 1986 Seville Statement on Violence. See expanded biography.
	Neelakanta Radhakrishnan India Gandhian scholar and activist, Professor Radhakrishnan organized many university and village shantisena and trained more than 5,000 young volunteers over 20 years. He took up assignment under the Government of India as Director of Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, also establishing the Indian Council of Gandhian Studies; Gandhi Media Centre; G. Ramachandran Institute of Nonviolence and Shantisena; and Missionaries of Nonviolence Foundation India. He has authored over 50 books. See expanded biography.
	Bernard Lafayette, Jr. United States The Rev. Dr. Lafayette , an ordained minister, is a longtime civil rights activist, organizer, and an authority on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960, and he was a core leader of the civil rights movement in Nashville, TN, in 1960 and in Selma, AL, in 1965. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed by Martin Luther King, Jr. to be national program administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and national coordinator of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. He is Distinguished Senior Scholar-in-Residence at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. See expanded biography.
	Robert Muller Belgium Dr. Muller devoted 40 years working for peace at the United Nations, reaching the position of Assistant-Secretary-General. He created a World Core Curriculum and is known throughout the world as the "father of global education." There are 29 Robert Muller schools around the world with more being established each year. The World Core Curriculum earned him the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1989. Dr. Muller is also Co-Founder and Chancellor Emeritus of the University for Peace created by the United Nations in demilitarized Costa Rica. See expanded biography.

Center for Global Nonviolence (1994-2008) Honorary Sponsors

Óscar Arias Sánchez, Nobel Peace Laureate
Máiread Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Past Director-General, UNESCO
Robert Muller, Chancellor Emeritus, University for Peace
Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Chemistry Laureate (In Memoriam)