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    • Governing Council

    Glenn D. Paige

    Glenn D. Paige (Chair)
    Hawai'i

    Founder and former president of the Center for Global Nonviolence; Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Author of Nonkilling Global Political Science (2002; 3rd ed. 2009); The Scientific Study of Political Leadership (1977) and The Korean Decision: June 24-30, 1950 (1968). He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1947), Princeton University (A.B., politics, 1955), Harvard University (A.M., East Asian regional studies, 1957) and Northwestern University (Ph.D. political science, 1959).

    See Founder.

     
    Jose V. Abueva

    Jose V. Abueva
    Philippines

    Founding President, Kalayaan College at Quezon City; Former President and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Administration, University of the Philippines; Former Secretary of the UN University; Chairman, Aurora Aragon Quezon Peace Foundation; Trustee of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and the Foundation for Worldwide People Power.

    See expanded biography.

     

    Vasu Gouden

    Vasu Gounden
    South Africa

    Founder and Executive Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). He has been involved in mediation work in South Africa, Somalia, Burundi and the DRC. His achievements have led the World Economic Forum to elect him as one of their Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT). He also serves on the Boards of the Gandhi Development Trust and the International Negotiation Journal.

    See expanded biography.

     

    James Mercy

    James A. Mercy (Vice-Chair)
    United States of America

    Special Advisor for Strategic Directions of the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He also served as co-editor of the World Report on Violence and Health prepared by the World Health Organization and as member of the the Editorial Board of the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Study of Violence Against Children.

    See expanded biography.

     

    Jane Shivers

     

    Jane Shivers
    United States

    Principal of Shivers Consulting, she was a founder and chairman of the board of the Piedmont Park Conservancy, chairman of the Midtown Alliance, the Society of International Business Fellows, Lifetime Director of the Alliance Theatre and board member of The Carter Center, the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, the Tampa Bay Research Institute and the Friends of the Patel Center for Global Solutions at the University of South Florida.

     

    Sona Khan

     

    Sona Khan
    India

    Social activist, former judge, attorney before the Indian Supreme Court, and columnist for Indian Express, The Hindu, and the Hindustan Times, Sona Khan is renowned for her work on women's rights, development efforts and against child prostitution. She is an specialist on Islamic Law and has been a consultant to UNDP/UNIFEM, UNHCR, UNESCO, USAID, among many other international bodies and organizations.

     




    Center for Global Nonkilling Incorporators / Center for Global Nonviolence (1994-2008) Board of Directors

    Center for Global Nonviolence Board of Directors, October 2, 1994

    Board photograph at Founding, Gandhi statue, Honolulu, October 2, 1994

    Glenn D. Paige (President); see bio above.

    Lou Ann Ha'aheo Guanson (Vice-President); past vice-president, International Fellowship of Reconciliation; specialist on creativity and leadership for nonviolent social change; co-author and co-editor of Hawai'i Journeys in Nonviolence (1995).

    Glenda H. Paige (Secretary); management consultant; retired McDonald's quality manager.

    Karen Cross (Treasurer); program manager, Program on Conflict Resolution, Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawai'i; member of the Board of Directors, Association for Conflict Resolution Hawai'i.

    Larry R. Cross (Treasurer); president Economics Institute, past academic vice-president, Japan-America Institute of Management Science, past associate dean, College of Business, University of Hawai`i.

    Ramon Lopez-Reyes (Director); Lt. Col. Inf. (Ret.); scholar-psychotherapist; founder of the International Center for Study and Promotion of Zones of Peace in the World.

    George Simson (Director); professor emeritus of English, University of Hawai'i; founder of the interdisciplinary journal Biography and of the Center for Biographical Research.