Fund for Peace Hosts KQED Nobel Prize Documentary and Discussion on Who Will Lead Us to Peace in 2025?

Fund for Peace
Wednesday, 27 February 2002

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize, The Fund for Peace, a non-profit organization, and KQED, the largest PBS affiliate in California, will screen a preview of the KQED documentary series: "The Nobel: Visions of Our Century" at the Washington, D.C. National Press Club ballroom 6:30 - 9:00 p.m, February 27, 2002.

Following the screening Dr. Pauline H. Baker, President of The Fund for Peace will lead an expert panel to engage the audience on "Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025?" Panelists include John Boland, Executive Vice President, KQED, Michael Isip, Executive Producer, Dr. Stephen J. Flanagan, Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, and Nemat Shafik, Vice President, Private Sector Development, and Infrastructure, The World Bank.

"In reviewing the range of Nobel Prize recipients over the last 100 years, a roadmap emerges that helps to unravel the contradictory history of peace," said John Boland. "In the past century, the violence of war has intensified, but at the same time, we have witnessed momentous advances for the cause of peace. The legacy and history of the Nobel Prize help us identify what we require of our peace leaders and peacemakers in the 21st Century," Boland concluded.

In the past century, the Nobel Peace Prize winners have been an inspiration through several different challenges of war and peace, notes Pauline Baker: "Clearly, the new century will present new challenges, actors, voices, and forces." Dr. Baker adds: "The new warmongers are manifesting themselves already. The central question remains: 'who will counter them by waging peace?'"

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