2006 Lecture

Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire gave the 5th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future entitled “A Right to Live without Violence, Nuclear Weapons and War” at UC Santa Barbara’s Corwin Pavilion.

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.

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2005 Lecture

Robert Jay Lifton delivered the fourth annual lecture entitled, “America and the Human Future: Surviving Vietnam, 9/11 and Iraq” at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Robert Jay Lifton is Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at City University of New York (CUNY). He was formerly Director of The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He previously held the Foundations' Fund Research Professorship of Psychiatry at Yale University for more than two decades. The overall themes of Dr. Lifton's work have been holocaust and transformation. He has studied many of the most destructive events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and has played an important role in the development of the field of psychohistory. His many books have won him critical acclaim, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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2004 Lecture

Dame Anita Roddick gave the third annual lecture entitled, “Kindness as a Key to Humanity’s Future” at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dame Anita Roddick is founder of The Body Shop and an eminent author and speaker. Since founding The Body Shop in 1976 with the mission “To dedicate our business to the pursuit of social and environmental change,” Roddick has become an icon for corporate responsibility and social justice practices. She is the author of five books and has received numerous awards for her work, including most recently being named Dame Commander of the British Empire. She serves as trustee to a number of international organizations, including the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

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2003 Lecture

Professor Richard Falk delivered the second lecture in the series at the University of California at Santa Barbara entitled, “American Civil Liberties & Human Rights Under Siege.” Professor Richard Falk is the Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Global Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He serves as chair of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and is a recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize.

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