WFI Fellows | Global Solutions

The WFI Fellows & Biographies

Below is a complete listing of our Fellows and their affiliations. An asterick after a name denotes WFI Steering Committee Member.

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Brian F. Aull, Ph.D

Board of Directors, Coalition for a Strong UN

Bio

Brian F. Aull is a member of the Board of Directors of the Coalition for a Strong U.N. (CSUN) and serves on the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Cambridge, MA. He has previously served on the Cambridge Peace Commission and assisted in drafting the mission statement of the Alliance for our Common Future. A staff scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Mr. Aull earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University as well as a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

The Coalition for a Strong U.N. does advocacy and public education work in all of CGS's key areas. He believes it important to create new kinds of democratic cultures that connect ordinary people to all the "big" institutions and foster more widespread civic education and popular participation in shaping the world. Specifically, Mr. Aull has worked on the Peace Platform published by CSUN (www.strongun.org/pp.htm). He suggests using the Global Responsibility Index as an educational tool to bridge the gap between "world affairs" and the concerns of citizens at the grass roots level. Brian Aull adheres to the Baha'i Faith, which advocates a collective security system.

Joseph Preston Baratta, Ph.D.

Assc. Professor, Worcestor State College
Author, The Politics of World Federation

Bio

Joseph Baratta is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Worcester State College. He teaches world history, English history, international relations, and history of science. Previously, he served as a U.N. Representative (1985-88) at the World Association of World Federalists in New York. Professor Baratta earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, and a M.A. in History and a M.A.T. in Education from Boston University. He also earned a Ph.D. in International Diplomatic History from Boston University and wrote his dissertation on the "Origins of World Government Movement, 1937-47".

Professor Baratta has worked on systemic U.N. reform, the history of the world federalist movement, an international system of sovereign states, and U.S. foreign policy. He is also interested in U.S. foreign policy, justice in international affairs, and human rights courts.

Dr. Baratta authored The Politics of World Federation, 2 vols-Vol 1: United Nations, U.N. Reform, Atomic Control. Vol. 2: From World Federalism to Global Governance. Other publications include: The United Nations System: Meeting the World Constitutional Crisis (Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1995); monographs funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace on international verification, peacekeeping, arbitration, and human rights; articles on the Baruch plan, Grenville Clark, the Kellogg-Briand pact, and "Toward Global Governance" in Peace and Change (July 1999).

Thomas Camarella, J.D.

Vice Chair, Citizens for Global Solutions Board of Directors

Bio

Tom Camarella is President of the Culver City Democratic Club, delegate to the 47th CA Assembly District for the California State Democratic Party, member of the Culver City Landlord/Tenant Mediation Board, board member of the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action and member of the 47th CA Assembly District Environmental Task Force. Previously, Mr. Camarella has held the positions of President for the Southern California Region of WFA/CGS, Treasurer of CGS National, Chair of numerous WFA National Committees, member of the Culver City Charter Review Committee, board member of the Labor Community Strategy Center, board member of the U.S. Institute for Peace, and President of International Criminal Court Alliance. Mr. Camarella was also a union representative and contract negotiator for 20 years and negotiated $5 billion in contracts. Tom Camarella attended six colleges in ten years without losing one credit as he alternated traveling, working and educating. He earned his B.S. in Sociology with a minor in Music from California State University and his J.D. from Western State University. In 2001, he became a California Certified Mediator.

Of Citizens for Global Solutions' core issues, he is most interested in International Law and Justice, in supporting the International Criminal Court and protecting human rights. He also believes in confronting the challenges of climate change and global health issues. Furthermore, Mr. Camarella would like to stimulate the growth of Citizens for Global Solutions' membership to "increase our clout for a wonderful circle of cause and effect". In particular, he quotes WFI Director Scott Hoffman's statement that "Our great political challenge is to harness the widespread, but not passionately held, universalism of the American public toward the realization of a transformed foreign policy".

David Crocker

Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

Bio

***Biographical information Coming Soon***

Tad Daley, Ph.D.*

Peace and Disarmament Fellow,
LA Office of Physicians for Social Responsibility

Bio

Tad Daley is a political author, an international policy analyst, and an activist for enduring world peace. He is currently the Peace and Disarmament Fellow in the LA Office of Physicians for Social Responsibility. He is also on the national policy board of Progressive Democrats of America and is chair of their nuclear disarmament task force. He earned a B.A. in Political Science, a MSc in International Studies, a J.D., and a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis. Previously, Dr. Daley has served as a political advisor to Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-California), the late U.S. Senator Alan Cranston (D-California), and Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). He ran for U.S. Congress himself in a 2001 special election to represent mid-city LA. He also worked at the RAND Corporation.

Dr. Daley is particularly interested in abolishing nuclear weapons, ending genocide, and reinventing the United Nations.

He has published more than 70 articles, including "Non-Proliferation and the Nuclear Double Standard"; "The Me Too Club"; "U.S. Must Lead Others in Eliminating Nuclear Weapons"; "A U.N. Volunteer Force Can Stop Crimes Against Humanity" and "Desk Chairs on the Titanic" (on the timid U.N. reform report from Kofi Annan's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenge, and Change).

Stephen L. Damours*

Vice-Chair, WFI Steering Committee
Author, America the Almighty

Bio

Stephen L. Damours is Coordinator for the Washington DC Meditation Center of Self-Realization Fellowship and member of the World Federalist Institute Steering Committee. Previously, he has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of WFA, chaired WFA's Education Committee and Publications Task Force, and served on WFA's Partners Planning Commission and Growth and Outreach Commission. He has also served on the Board of Directors and Executive Council of the Campaign for U.N. Reform and on CUNR's Political Action Committee and Nominating Committee. He has held a variety of management consulting, program analysis, and human resources positions in the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Damours earned his B.A. from Wheaton College and his M.A. from the University of Chicago.

He is interested in the "unilateralism and militarism of U.S. foreign policy and its lack of commitment to-or outright hostility toward-multilateral solutions to problems of human rights, global environmental protection, especially global warming; justice, especially the ICC, and peace and war, particularly the Iraq war". Mr. Damours' most notable publication is his book, America the Almighty: The Maverick Hyperpower, in response to which he has given interviews on U.S. foreign policy throughout the United States. More information about America the Almighty can be found at the website: www.americathealmighty.com

Furthermore, Mr. Damours developed the Peace-War knowledge base, a key component of a computer program that asks the user questions about the characteristics of any given country and its relationships to its neighbors and feeds the information provided into a statistical inference engine. The knowledge base is then used to calculate the probability that a country will be at peace or at war in the near to mid-term future.

Larry Michael David

Trustee, WFA Endowment Fund

Bio

Mr. David is a trustee of the WFA Endowment Fund and President of the National Center for Addiction Recovery, LLC. Previously, he served in several capacities for the World Federalist Association: Chair of the Board, Chair of the Development Committee, and Chair of the Committee on Organizational Effectiveness.

Although interested in all CGS's areas of involvement, Mr. David would like to discuss in particular regional (continental or hemispheric) federation, mutual security pacts, and trade agreements.

Mr. David has had "a nearly life-long interest in issues of global security, war and peace, and the U.N. [He is] keenly interested in long-term planning for global peace, security, sustainability, and prosperity".

Richard Falk

Author, The Declining World Order

Bio

***Biographical information Coming Soon***

John (Jock) Malcolm Forbes*

Board of Directors, Coalition to Build a Strong UN

Bio

Jock Forbes is on the Steering Committee of the World Citizens Party for a Democratic World Government, on the Board of Directors of the Coalition for a Strong United Nations, and on the Advisory Council of the UNA of Greater Boston. Previously, Mr. Forbes was Executive Director of WFA of New England, co-founder and director of the Council for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze, founding member of the Cambridge Peace Commission, and member of the Peace & Social Concerns Committee for the Cambridge Friends Meeting. He was on the staff of the International Task Force, Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, lobbying for the Campaign at the U.N. in 1982, and was a member of the Disarmament Action Network. Mr. Forbes served as the director of the Teachers' Center for Global Education at Harvard Education School and co-director of the Interstate Freeze Lobbying Network. He was also a member of the MA Department of Education's Citizenship Ed. Coordinating Committee on Global Education and director of teacher training clinics at Northeast Regional Conferences for the Social Studies. Mr. Forbes was Executive Director and board member of the UNA of Greater Boston and Massachusetts and a member of the National Finance Committee for McGovern for President. Mr. Forbes earned an A.B. from Harvard College, a C.A.S from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a M.S. form the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Mr. Forbes has great interest and some expertise in U.S.-Global Engagement, International Law & Justice, Peace & Security, and International Institutions. Of these, he is most interested in International Institutions, particularly ways to create democratic world government.

Ron Glossop, Ph.D.*

Chair, WFI Steering Committee
Author, Confronting War and World Federation?

Bio

Ronald J. Glossop is Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville (SIUE), member of the national board of Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund, Chair of Citizens for Global Solutions of Greater St. Louis, Vice-President of UNA of Greater St. Louis, Coordinator of the St. Louis Coalition for the ICC, President of the American Association of Teachers of Esperanto, and Director of Infanoy chirkaw la Mondo [Esperanto for "Children around the World"]. Previously, Dr. Glossop held positions as Chair of the World Federalist Association of Greater St. Louis (1970-2004), Vice-President of the National World Federalist Association (1994-2003), and Coordinator of the Peace Studies Program at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (1974-1998). He has also taught a course on "Global Problems & Human Survival" for twenty years. Dr. Glossop earned his B.A. from Carthage College (summa cum laude) and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.

Of Citizens for Global Solutions' core issues, Dr. Glossop is interested mainly in Peace and Security through expanding democracy and restricting national sovereignty. In particular, he supports the International Criminal Court, the Responsibility to Protect principle, creation of a force of individually recruited U.N. peacekeepers, and education for world citizenship. He emphasizes the need to substitute democracy for violence as the way to resolve social conflicts, both within and between nations. He addresses these issues in his books World Federation? (1994) and Confronting War (4th ed., 2001). He is especially interested in human rights issues with regard to language use and is therefore active in the Esperanto movement. He has published articles in Esperanto about World Citizenship and his book World Federation? was translated into Esperanto.

Additionally, Dr. Glossop has written several book reviews which can be found on the Citizens for Global Solutions website and he regularly gives presentations throughout the country and the world on how to deal with global problems.

Robert T. Haines, J.D.

World Federalist Association

Bio

Robert Haines has been a member of WFA since 1983. He served on the Board of Directors for twelve years and was member of the Executive Committee of WFA for two terms. During his time as a member of WFA, he has served as a member or chair of several committees. Mr. Haines earned a B.A. from the University of Denver in 1941 and a J.D. (with distinction) from the University of Michigan in 1948.

Mr. Haines' interests lie in International Law and Justice and International Institutions. He believes that "the principle that certain of the Human Rights listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are superior to any substantial cultural or national deviation and may be, indeed must be enforced by all nations and international organizations should be kept in the forefront of our thinking, planning, and commentary". Furthermore, Mr. Haines "[considers himself] a pragmatist, not an ideologue. The test of any proposition should be how well it does or may work to solve real problems, and not perfect congruence with any doctrine".

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Scott L. Hoffman*

WFI Director

Bio

Scott Hoffman is WFI Director at Citizens for Global Solutions. He is also the guitar teacher at the Capitol Hill Day School and St. Peter's Interparish School, both on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mr. Hoffman served as Field Director of the World Federalist Association from 1990 to 2004 and Executive Director of the World Federalist Association of New England from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Hoffman earned a B.A. in English from Harvard College and an M.A.T. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Mr. Hoffman's experience lies in U.S.-Global Engagement, Peace and Security, International Law and Justice and International Institutions. He is particularly interested in international institutions and believes that: "a portion of WFI's work should be devoted to detailed study of creating global institutions capable of preventing war and passing and enforcing binding global legislation.... I consider myself a combination of an idealist and a pragmatist. I have believed that world federation was the answer to the world's problems since I was in high school. However, I also believe it's important for Citizens for Global Solutions to have the professionalism and political savvy to convey our message with credibility so that we can influence other NGOs and decision-makers. It makes sense for it to focus most of its work on ‘first step' programs which are supported by other organizations and have a chance of succeeding within the next few years, like a U.N. Emergency Peace Service. Part of WFI's role should be to help CGS continue to frame its work within the context of our long-term goals".

Mr. Hoffman has published editorials in the American Friends Service Committee journal in New England and the World Federalist newsletter. He was also co-editor of A New World Order (WFA, 1991).

Walter Hoffmann

Center for UN Reform Education

Bio

***Biographical information Coming Soon***

Didier Pierre Christine Jacobs*

Special Advisor to the President, Oxfam America

Bio

Didier Jacobs is the Special Advisor to the President of Oxfam America. Previously, he held positions as Finance Manager of the Liberia Mission of Doctors Without Borders (during the civil war) and Secretary General of United Students for Europe (a students' society affiliated with the European Peoples Party, the second largest party in the European Parliament). Mr. Jacobs earned a B.A. and a M.A. in economics as well as an A.A. in philosophy from Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He also received a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Jacobs is most knowledgeable in regards to international institutions, such as the International Criminal Court and the United Nations and its programs. Additionally, he is strongly interested in the issue of how to deal with terrorism, the proliferation of WMDs, and the states the U.S. considers as potential or actual enemies.

Mr. Jacobs organized a workshop on global democracy with WFA in 2003 with Heather Hamilton. He has also written an article on global democracy which he is elaborating upon and turning into a book (www.new-rules.org/docs/afterneolib/jacobs.pd)

Robert C. Johansen, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame and the
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Bio

Robert C. Johansen is a Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He earned a B.A. from Manchester College and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Previously, Professor Johansen served as President of the Institute for World Order and President of the World Policy Institute.

Professor Johansen would like to focus his work in WFI on U.S.-Global Engagement, Peace and Security, International Law and Justice and International Institutions. His particular interest and experience lies in global governance, global democratization, as well as U.S. peacekeeping and enforcement. He is also knowledgeable about the role of international norms and institutions in the prevention of armed conflict as well as the International Criminal Court and U.S. policy regarding it.

Professor Johansen is the author of "The Impact of U.S. Policies Toward the International Criminal Court on the Ability of the International Community to Enforce International Laws Prohibiting War Crime, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity" and editor of A United Nations Emergency Peace Service: To Prevent Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.

Asma Lateef

Director, Bread for the World Institute

Bio

Asma Lateef is Director of Policy and Programs for Citizens for Global Solutions. Formerly, she was a consultant for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the International Labour Organization in Geneva and Senior International Policy Analyst at Bread for the World. Asma holds a B.A. in Geography with a minor in East Asian Languages and Literature from McGill University, a post-graduate Diploma in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a M.A. in Economics from Maryland University.

Asma's background in development, global poverty, global engagement, and international institutions enhances her interest in and work on CGS's core issues. Asma feels that trade issues and the DOHA round are "important and challenging issue[s] both in terms of multilateralism and sustainable development".

Mariel McKone Leonard*

WFI Web Editor

Bio

Mariel McKone Leonard serves as editor for the WFI webpages. She has been a member of the WFI's Steering Committee as well as the former Assistant to the WFI Director.

Ms. Leonard is interested in the ethics of global engagement and of international development. She is particularly knowledgeable of the influence of identity (ethnic, national, social and religious) in determining problems and practices of development, and the influence of culture on national politics and economies, particularly in regard to sub-Saharan Africa. She also has an interest in the problems of peacemaking and peace-building as well as just war theory.

Ms. Leonard believes that "We need to advocate holistic, moral engagement with the international community and focus on the common source of our problems, as well as the common solutions. Emphasis cannot be on blaming one another, but rather in coming together in compromise. And we need to look at the grand vision and philosophy behind all of our actions, because if we are secure in our image of who we are and what we want, the actions will follow naturally. Without a vision, we will skip from crisis to crisis and not only only make little improvements, but ones that are sometimes contradictory to each other".

Ms. Leonard received her B.A. in International Relations from the College of William and Mary. She is currently pursuing a Certificate in International Development at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Genevieve Marcus, Ph.D.

Co-President, Experimental Cities, Inc.

Bio

Genevieve Marcus is Co-President of Experimental Cities, Inc., Research Director for ECI, and President of the Equal Relationships Institute. She also holds the positions of Councilor for the Green Party of Los Angeles County, President of the Hollywood Chapter of CGS, and Vice President of the California Region of Citizens for Global Solutions. Previously, Dr. Marcus was Founder and Editor in Chief of the CUE (Computer Users in Education) Newsletter: Telecommunications in Educations News, Editor in Chief of the New Relationships Newsletter, lecturer at UCLA's Music Department, officer of World Citizens Assembly, California, and Education and Outreach Consultant for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Society.

Dr. Marcus is interested in the structure and dynamics of international cooperation. Her work on relationships is applicable to Peace and Security, as it applies from families to nations. Experimental Cities, of which she is Co-President, works on projects affecting energy security, pollution, and global poverty. These issues are of particular importance to Dr. Marcus. She believes this era of profound globalization and widespread telecommunication calls for different thinking and different structures to address human relationships at all levels and would like to discuss finding innovative approaches to new and existing problems.

Dr. Marcus is the author of "Equal Time: Maintaining A Balance in Today's Intimate Relationships". She believes that the principles for good intimate relationships apply to all relationships. She feels that "the world has not done enough to bring women's voices into the planning and decision-making processes. We have been limping along with input from only half of the human species. Recent research shows once again that women and men think differently. CGS can give more support to ideas emanating from women worldwide".

Saul Mendlovitz, J.D.

Dag Hammarkjold Professor, Rutgers University Law School

Bio

Saul Mendlovitz is Dag Hammarskjold Professor at Rutgers Law School, Founder and President of World Order Models Project, Founder and Co-Chair of Global Action to Prevent War, and Representative of five NGOs to United Nations. Previously, he served as a board member of the Arms Control Association, a member of the Social Science Research Advisory Board of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Mr. Mendlovitz earned his B.A. from Syracuse University; and his M.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago.

Of Citizens for Global Solutions' core issues, Mr. Mendlovitz is drawn to International Law and Justice, International Institution, Peace and Security, and U.S. Global Engagement. He is particularly interested in the establishment of an independent United Nations rapid response force. Publications he has contributed to include A United Nations Peace Emergency Service, edited by Robert Johanson; and A Reader on Second Assembly & Parliamentary Proposals, edited by Mendlovitz and Barbara Martin Walker.

Thesil Morlan*

Managing Editor, Education Development Center, Inc.
Editor, Minerva

Bio

Thesil Morlan is a Managing Editor for Education Development Center, Inc. in Newton, MA. She is the Amnesty International Area Coordinator for Maine, the AIUSA Coordinator of European Union Regional Action Network, Editor of AIUSA's annual Banned Books Week materials, Chair of AIUSA Northeast Regional Planning Group, Convenor of the Maine Alliance for the ICC (MAICC) and Moderator for the Executive Committee of UNA-USA-Maine. She was also a member of the WFA Board for many years. Ms. Morlan earned her B.A. in philosophy from Mount Holyoke College.

Ms. Morlan is interested in the issues of Peace and Security, International Law and Justice, and International Institutions. She is also interested in global citizenship, particularly with regard to (but not limited to) its cultural and gender dimensions. Ms. Morlan serves as Editor for CGS-WFI's Minerva and AIUSA's Raoul. More information about Ms. Morlan and her projects can be found on her website: www.midcoast.com/~thesil/.

Brett Becker Pettit*

Law Student, University of Nebraska

Bio

Brett Pettit is a member of the World Federalist Institute's steering committee and is an intern at Global Innovation and Strategy Center. Mr. Pettit holds B.A.s in Philosophy and Political Science from Tulane University.

Mr. Pettit is interested in Peace and Security and plans to begin a program in International Relations or Law in Chicago in Fall 2007.

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James Riker, Ph.D.

Director, Beyond the Classroom Living and Learning Program,
University of Maryland

Bio

James Riker is Director of the Beyond the Classroom Living & Learning Program at the University of Maryland and a board member for the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID). He is Coordinator of the Democratic Governance and Parliamentary Oversight (DGPO) Project and for the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition as well as a member and rapporteur for its High Level Panel on IMF Board Accountability. His lengthy career has included positions such as Associate Director of Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, Associate Director for the Global Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Vice-Chair and Co-founding member and then Chair of the Global Development Section of The International Studies Association (ISA). He also served as a faculty advisor for the student group, Terps for Global Solutions (UMD campus group of Citizens for Global Solutions) in 2004-2005. Dr. Riker earned a B.A. from Pomona College in Environmental Policy, a M.A. in Government and a Ph.D. in Government: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Southeast Asian Studies, and International Agriculture & Rural Development from Cornell University.

Dr. Riker has interest and expertise in reassessing responsibilities and reinvigorating U.S. leadership on global priorities, assessing the impact of the Global War on Terror and the prospects for a new human security agenda in Southeast Asia, re-envisioning human security and strategies for eradicating hunger and poverty as well as the global politics of environmentally sustainable development. He also expresses interest in strategies for securing human rights and democracy at the regional and global levels and strategies for enhancing United Nations-Civil Society relations. He supports civil society advocacy for democratic accountability of the international financial institutions. He is interested in serious discussion on building the institutional bases for global democracy in the transition from a U.S. hegemonic world, and on effective participatory and collaborative governance approaches to poverty alleviation and food security.

Dr. Riker is the author of Promising Visions and Strategies to Advancing Global Democracy and co-editor of Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms and Government-NGO Relations in Asia: Prospects and Challenges for People-Centered Development. He is editor of A Program to End Hunger: Hunger 2000, and The Changing Politics of Hunger: Hunger 1999.

Michael Harold Rose, Ph.D.

PhD in Quantum Optics from University of Arizona

Bio

Mike Rose earned a BSEE, a M.S. in Optics, and a Ph.D. in Quantum Optics from the University of Arizona.

Dr. Rose is concerned with the issues of U.S.-Global Engagement, Peace and Security, Global Health and Environment, International Law and Justice, and International Institutions. He is especially interested in U.S. participation in international institutions and cooperation with global partners and supporting the ICC, the U.N., and other international organizations. Mike believes in linking international economics institutions (e.g. WTO) to international governance and legal institutions to maximize compliance and progress.

Joseph E. Schwartzberg, Ph.D.*

Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota

Bio

Joseph E. Schwartzberg is Professor Emeritus in Geography at the University of Minnesota. He has been President of the Minnesota Chapter of CGS for eleven years, and Advisory Board Member of the UNA of Minnesota, Council Member and Co-Founder of the MN Alliance of Peacemakers, Member and Co-Founder of the Kashmir Study Group, and a member of the WFM, the Better World Society, the Club of Budapest, and other NGOs and IGOs. Previously, he was Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota (1964-2000), Chair of the Department of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Professor of Geography and South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (1960-64), Fulbright Professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi (1979-80). Dr. Schwartzberg was also Director of Minnesota Studies in International Development, active in various Peace Corps training projects; council member of the Association for Asian Studies, and member of Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Although interested in all of Citizens for Global Solutions' core issues, Dr. Schwartzberg has particular expertise in U.N. Reform, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and political geography. His work has been extensively published, and he has been recognized with several major awards for academic excellence. Some of his work can be found on-line via CGS, WFM, Kashmir Study Group, and University of Chicago South Asia Digital Library.

Dr. Schwartzberg has given hundreds of public presentations on world federalism and various aspects of U.N. reform (averaging 15 or more per year) throughout the U.S., at the U.N., and throughout the world. He is active in the Academic Council on the United Nations System and has had articles on peacekeeping and weighted voting published in it journal, Global Governance. Recently, his article on a U.N. Administrative Academy was published in the U.N. Chronicle.

He has lived abroad for nearly eight years, with periods of residence in India, Germany, France and Spain and travel to nearly a hundred countries in virtually every major region of the world.

Jane Shevtsov

Co-Founder, WorldBeyondBorders.org

Bio

Jane Shevtsov is currently working on her Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of Georgia. She is the co-founder of www.worldbeyondborders.org . Ms. Shevtsov earned her B.S. in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution from UCLA.

Ms. Shevtsov is most interested in Global Health and Environment, International Institutions, and Peace and Security. She has long-term experience working on issues directly relevant to global government and has published an op-ed piece on world government in the Daily Bruin.

Harlan M. Smith

Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota

Bio

Harlan M. Smith is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Minnesota. His courses have covered macro and micro theory, money and banking, economic development, comparative economic systems, international economics, and ethics and economic philosophy. He continues to teach a class each semester. Previous positions include Professor of Economics at Brown University and fellow at Harvard University. He also worked at the Postwar Division of Bureau of Labor Statistics. Professor Smith earned his B.A. in Sociology and his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Since childhood, Professor Smith has been dedicated to abolishing war and has pursued this goal in his education and professional career. His studies of the causes of war, compounded by the bombing of Hiroshima led him to become a proponent of world government. Professor Smith has the "most expertise in dealing with global economic issues, especially what now is called globalization, though I also did graduate work in political science where I think the main problems lie, domestic and global". He is interested in dialogue on how to institutionalize the inherent goodness in people and how to induce governments and businesses to better serve the common interest. Professor Smith is currently working on an article "[suggesting] ways that four global problems might be advanced a step at a time if one or more nation, or one or more prominent NGOs, signed a compact indicating what they would commit to do on one or more such problems, inviting others to follow them or take steps of their own".

Andrew Strauss, J.D.

Professor of International Law, Widener University School of Law

Bio

Andrew Strauss is a Professor of International Law at Widener University's School of Law. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools' section on International Law. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee for its Section on Conflicts of Law. He was a visiting Associate Professor at Rutgers (Camden) Law School and Honorary Fellow at the Center for International Studies at New York University School of Law. Mr. Strauss was also employed as an Associate at Graham & James and Shearman & Sterling. He has served as a member of the Advisory Board at the Center for U.N. Reform Education and ONEVOICE and as Director of the Geneva/Nairobi International Law Institutes. Mr. Strauss also served as a representative to the United Nations for Aliran and was a consulting attorney for Human Rights Watch. He earned his B.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Mr. Strauss's focus in WFI is on Peace and Security and International Institutions, particularly global democracy and global parliament. He has published numerous articles and given many presentations. Some of these publications include: "Taking Democracy Global: Assessing the Benefits and Challenges of a Global Parliamentary Assembly"; Citizens in the International Realm: The New Participatory Demands; On the Creation of a Global Peoples Assembly: Legitimacy and the Power of Popular Sovereignty; Governing the Whole World; and Time for Ordinary Israelis and Palestinians to Talk It Through. Some presentations include: "Pursuing International Trade Remedies to the Problem of Global Warming"; "Climate Justice: The Prospects for Climate Change Litigation"; "Taking Democracy Global"; and "Grand Schemes and Incrementalism: Toward a Model of Change in the International Legal System".

Betty C. Taylor

President, Alliance for the Visual Arts

Bio

Betty C. Taylor is President of the Alliance for the Visual Arts as well as President of the local Chapter of Citizens for Global Solutions (Akron, Ohio). She also served as Chair of the Trade Study for the local League of Women Voters in 2003. Mrs. Taylor earned a B.S. in Biology and a B.F.A. in Sculpture with a certificate in Interior Design from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio.

Mrs. Taylor is most interested in U.S.-Global Engagement, International Law and Justice and International Institutions. She believes that "we need to keep the long-range goal of World Peace through World Law with Justice in sight at all times". She is also concerned with action on the farm bill.

Barbara Martin Walker*

Co-Founder, Committee on Teaching about the UN
Editor, World Federalist Reader I, Uniting the People and Nations

Bio

Mrs. Barbara Martin Walker is a member of the Council of the World Federalist Movement and Co-Founder of the Committee on Teaching about the United Nations (CTAUN). Previously, she was Treasurer of the World Federalist Movement. She has also held various volunteer positions with the World Federalist Association. Mrs. Walker earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and a M.A. in Teaching at Trinity College.

Mrs. Walker's areas of expertise include U.S.-Global Engagement and International Institutions. She has organized conferences for teachers on "Teaching About the United Nations" and edited two anthologies published by WFA, "World Federalist Reader I" and "Uniting the Peoples and Nations".

Lucy Law Webster*

Former Chair, WFI Steering Committee
Vice-Chair, Council of the World Federalist Movement

Bio

Lucy Law Webster is Vice Chair of the Council of the World Federalist Movement and Secretary of the Board and U.N. Representative of Economists for Peace and Security. She is also Executive Director of the Center for War/Peace Studies. Previously, she worked in the United Nations Secretariat, as a Political Affairs Officer in the Department for Disarmament Affairs, and before that as Special Assistant to the Secretary General of the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and on related human rights issues. She also worked for UNICEF, UNDP, UNEP and on the staff of Economists for Peace and Security on issues relating to sustainable development and international equity and excessive militarization. Ms. Webster earned a B.A. in Political Science from Wellesley College, an M.S. in International Relations from Long Island University and an M.A. in Global Political Economy and Finance from the New School for Social Research. More information about Ms. Webster and her projects can be found on her website: www.lvistas.net

Dessima Williams

Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University

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Lawrence S. Wittner, Ph.D.

Professor of History, State University of New York

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Lawrence Wittner is a Professor of History and director of the History graduate program at State University of New York, Albany. He serves on the national boards of the Peace History Society and Peace Action (the largest peace organization in the United States) and was previously President of the Peace History Society. Professor Wittner earned an AB from Columbia College, an MA in History from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.

Professor Wittner's main interests lie in U.S.-Global Engagement, nuclear arms control and disarmament and peace movements. Professor Wittner has an extensive portfolio of published material on war and peace issues, especially on peace movements and on nuclear arms control and disarmament. His books include: Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement 1933-1983; American Intervention in Greece, 1943-1949; One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953.; Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement 1954-1970; Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement 1971 to the Present; and Peace Action: Past, Present and Future.

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