The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is pleased to announce that Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire will present the 5th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future on Tuesday, February 21st at 8:00 p.m.

The lecture, entitled “A Right to Live without Violence, Nuclear Weapons and War,” will take place at UC Santa Barbara’s Corwin Pavilion. The event is free and open to the public.

Mairead Corrigan Maguire received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work to create a nonviolent peace in Northern Ireland. She co-founded the Community of Peace People earlier that same year, which instituted marches across Northern Ireland demanding an end to religious violence. She also co-founded the Committee on the Administration of Justice, a non-sectarian organization of Northern Ireland which defends human rights and seeks changes to the government’s legal system. She received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Distinguished Peace Leadership Award in 1991 and remains a member of the Foundation’s Advisory Council.

The Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future was established by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 2001. Frank K. Kelly is a founder and senior vice president of the Foundation. His career includes being a journalist, a soldier, a Neiman Fellow, a speechwriter for Harry Truman, assistant to the US Senate Majority Leader, and vice president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Mr. Kelly presented the inaugural lecture, and subsequent lecturers have included Professor Richard Falk, Dame Anita Roddick and Professor Robert Jay Lifton. All lectures have been published and are available from the Foundation.

The Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB; Global and International Studies Program at UCSB; Political Science Department at UCSB; Sociology Department at UCSB; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB; International Convention on Human Rights; Solidarity Against War.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan international organization with consultative status to the United Nations. For more than 20 years, The Foundation has been committed to advancing initiatives to eliminate the nuclear weapons threat to all life, to fostering the global rule of law, and to building an enduring legacy of peace through education and advocacy.