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Speakers Bureau

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is proud to offer a Speakers Bureau for groups interested in learning more about the abolition of nuclear weapons, peace and security, missile defense, international law, peace education and more. Please read below for available speakers biographical information and topics. For more information or to book a speaker, please contact us at (805) 965-3443.

Our Speakers

David Krieger, President
Richard Falk, Board Chair
Rick Wayman , Director of Programs
Paul Chappell , Peace Leadership Director
Alice Slater, New York Representative
Martin Hellman, NAPF Silicon Valley Chapter
Bill Wickersham, NAPF Peace Leader
Thomas Heck, Foundation Member
Steve Daniels, Foundation Member

David Krieger
President

Topics:

  • Rising to the Challenge of Peace
  • US Nuclear Policy: A Recipe for Disaster
  • Nuclear Weapons and International Law
  • Terrorism and Nuclearism
  • Choose Hope and Change the World
  • War, Peace and the Human Spirit
  • Global Citizenship
  • Ballistic Missile Defense: What Will it Do?

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David Krieger's Bio

David Krieger is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and has served as President of the Foundation since 1982. Under his leadership the Foundation has initiated many innovative and important projects for building peace, strengthening international law and abolishing nuclear weapons. Dr. Krieger has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on issues of peace, security, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons. He has been interviewed on CNN Hotline, MSNBC and many other television and radio shows nationally and internationally.

Richard Falk
Chair

Topics:

  • Toward a Non-Violent Geopolitics
  • International Law in an Age of Terror
  • The Future of the United Nations
  • Humanitarian Intervention and State Sovereignty
  • Nonproliferation versus Abolition: Toward a Regime of Prohibition
Richard Falk
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, Santa Barbara. He serves as the Chair of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and is a recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize. Prof. Falk has provided expert testimony in many high profile cases and legislative and administrative hearings. He is the author, co-author or editor of more than 40 books on international law and the law of war.He received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1952), his LL.B. from Yale Law School (1955), and his J.S.D. from Harvard University (1962).

Rick Wayman
Director of Programs

Topics:

  • The status of nuclear weapons worldwide in 2011
  • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: about the Foundation and its programs
  • Youth participation in the nuclear disarmament movement
  • Nuclear weapons in the media
  • Challenging Trident: Lessons learned from the movement to abolish British nuclear weapons
  • Writing effective press releases, articles and op-eds

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Rick Wayman joined the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation as Director of Programs and Operations in 2007. Rick came to the Foundation from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in London, England, where he worked as Press & Communications Officer during the intense campaign to prevent the replacement of Trident, the UK's nuclear weapons system. He has a Bachelor's degree in International Business from Marquette University and a Master's degree in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management from the School for International Training.

Paul Chappell
Peace Leadership Director

Topics:

  • The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Peace Leadership Program
  • How to become a peace leader in your community
  • Will War Ever End?
  • Are humans naturally violent or naturally peaceful?
  • Shaping a peace movement: lessons from the US civil rights movement and the abolition of slavery
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Paul K. Chappell is the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Peace Leadership Director. He is a 2002 West Point graduate and an Iraq veteran. Paul is the author of Will War Ever End?, The End of War, Peaceful Revolution, and the upcoming book The Art of Waging Peace. His website is www.paulkchappell.com.

Alice Slater
New York Representative

Topics:

  • Nuclear History
  • Legal Instruments for Nuclear Disarmament
  • Role of the Movement in Nuclear Disarmament
  • Sustainable Energy
  • Obstacles and Opportunities for Nuclear Abolition
  • Inextricable Link Between Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
  • The Drive for Empire:  Space Domination and Nuclear Weapons
  • Article 9:  Global Movement to Abolish War
E-mail Alice Slater
AliceSlater is the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's New York representative.  She is a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons and directs the network’s Sustainable Energy Working Group which produced a model statute for an International Sustainable Energy Agency.  She is on the Board of the Lawyer’s Committee for Nuclear Policy, is a member of the Energy Committee of the NYC Bar Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Middle Powers Initiative, working to create pressure on nuclear weapons states for swifter nuclear disarmament.  She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Rideau Foundation and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition.  Ms. Slater is a UN NGO Representative and has organized numerous conferences, panels, and roundtables at the UN. 

Martin E. Hellman
NAPF Associate

Topics:

  • Soaring, Cryptography and Nuclear Weapons: Let’s face it, nuclear weapons are the elephant in the room that no one likes to talk about. This talk approaches the issue from the less threatening perspective of cryptography (codes and ciphers) and flying sailplanes. What could possibly relate three such disparate subject? Come and find out.
  • Soaring, Nuclear Weapons and World Peace: Very similar to the first listed talk, but makes the connection to world peace explicit.
  • Risk Analysis of Nuclear Weapons: How risky are nuclear weapons?
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Martin E. Hellman is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA) and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is best known as co-inventor of public key cryptography, he has also worked for over 25 years to reduce the nuclear threat. Prof. Hellman was a researcher at IBM's Watson Research Center from 1968-69 and an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT from 1969-71. He returned to Stanford in 1971, where he served on the regular faculty until becoming Professor Emeritus of EE in 1996. He has served as Associate Chair of the EE Department, Chairman of EE Graduate Admissions, and as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for minority student affairs. He has authored over 60 technical papers, 6 US, and a number of corresponding foreign patents.

Bill Wickersham

Bill Wickersham
NAPF Peace Leader

Topics:

  • Confronting Nuclear War: The Role of Education, Religion, and the Community
  • Overcoming Social and Psychological Obstacles to Nuclear Disarmament
  • Murphy's Law and Nuclear Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons Abolition: The Role of Peace and Justice Studies
  • Career Guidance in Nuclear Disarmament Education
  • The Mission, Goals and Objectives of the Missouri University Nuclear Disarmament Education Team (MUNDET)
  • Nuclear Disarmament Education: How Colleges and Universities Can Help
  • The Dialogue for Peace Process and Nuclear Disarmament Education
  • Nuclear Weapons: Civilization's Cancer
E-mail Bill Wickersham
Bill Wickersham is an educational psychologist and peace educator who has taught at the Universities of Missouri, Iowa, and Southern Illinois;  and at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona.  At Iowa, he served as College Program Coordinator of the Center for World Order Studies. During the period 1970 to 1971, he was an assistant to former U.S. Senator Joseph Clark (D-PA). From 1981 to 1985, he served as Executive Director of the World Federalists Association, and was an early leader in the national "Nuclear Freeze" movement. Since 1996, he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Missouri, and is a member of the Missouri University Nuclear Disarmament Education Team (MUNDET).  He also volunteers his time as a NAPF Peace Leader.

Thomas Heck
Foundation Member

Topics:

  • Leveraging the Anti-Nuclear Majority: How to Create a Serious Nuclear Disarmament Coalition (NDC)
  • Thinking Beyond the "Road Map": Would a "Holy Land Protectorate" Work?
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Thomas Heck, an independent scholar, peace activist, and musician, was raised in an academic and diplomatic family, his father having served in the U.S. Embassy in France. He is fluent in several languages. After his formal education (Baccalauréat I, Paris; B.A., University of Notre Dame; MLS, Univ. of Southern California; Ph.D., Yale University), Heck had a career in academia, both as a musicologist and as an academic librarian, during which he was awarded two Fulbright scholarships. In 1994-95 he was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He left the Ohio State University as an Emeritus Professor in 2000. He recently joined the Continuing Education Faculty at Santa Barbara City College to teach in the Omega Program. In addition to speaking on topics related to peacemaking, he is willing to provide incidental music (voice, classical guitar) appropriate to themes of peace.

Steve Daniels
Foundation Member

Topics:

  • Medical effects of nuclear weapons
  • Dangers of nuclear power generation
  • Disarmament and nuclear proliferation
  • International treaties
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Dr. Steve Daniels received his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan, and has been employed as an Emergency Physician in Santa Barbara, CA, since 1977. He is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, and is Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Dr. Daniels has been a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and chairman of the Santa Barbara chapter since 1980, during which time he has spoken publicly and written numerous op-ed articles on nuclear issues.

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