Jeffrey Laurenti, is Board Chair of Coalition for Peace Action. A resident of Trenton’s Chambersburg neighborhood and native of New Jersey’s capital city, served as executive director of policy studies at the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA) and as director of foreign policy programs at The Century Foundation. Before entering the U.N. arena, he served as executive director of the New Jersey Senate majority. He has advised Democratic presidential campaigns on international organization issues, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was his party’s nominee for Congress (NJ-4) in 1986.
Bruce Knotts was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia, worked for Raytheon in Saudi Arabia (1976-80) and on a World Bank contract in Somalia (1982-4), before he joined the Department of State as a U.S. diplomat in 1984. Bruce had diplomatic assignments in Greece, Zambia, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire and The Gambia, where he served as Deputy Chief of Mission. Bruce retired from the Foreign Service in 2007 and began directing the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO) in 2008. Bruce founded faith-based advocacy for sexual orientation/gender identity human rights at the United Nations and continues to advocate for the rights of women, indigenous peoples and for sustainable development in moral terms of faith and values. Bruce is co-chair of the NGO Committee on Human Rights at the United Nations, the chair of the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security, a member of the NGO UN Security Council Working Group, serves on the Board of the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development and he chaired the NGO/DPI Executive Committee (2015-19) which represents 1,400 DPI affiliated NGOs at the United Nations.
Yesenia Rodriguez Pizarro is a scholar-activist from the Claremont Colleges with a focus on international relations and global treaties. Her research emphasizes the rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly in Latin America. She has conducted fieldwork in Ecuador’s Oriente region, exploring the enforcement of Indigenous sovereignty under international frameworks like the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Yesenia is passionate about the role of young leaders in shaping the future of global governance and treaty compliance.
CFPA just finished our first 2024 Peace Voter Guides! NJ Congressional District 7 election between challenger, Sue Altman (D) and incumbent Thomas Kean Jr. (R) is the only congressional race in NJ rated a toss-up by the Cook Political Report. Please read the Guide yourself, and forward to your peaceful contacts in that District.
We urge all CFPA supporters, whether or not you vote in that District, to scroll down to the bottom of this page to contribute to running this Peace Voter Guide as Signature Ad(s) in key newspaper(s) in the District! The minimum donation per person is $25, more welcome! This is essential to ensuring that voters (especially pro-peace and pro-gun safety ones) in the District see the stark contrast between the candidates before they vote.
See CFPA's NJ Congressional District 7 Peace Voter Guide below, and click here for a printable version. Signature Ads will feature this Peace Voter Guide, along with a list of signers who supported their publication underneath. Your contribution not only helps cover the costs of the ads, but (unless you check that you don't want your name listed) also shows broad based grassroots support!
We need to run the ad comparing Altman and Kean Jr. on key peace issues soon, since voters can vote as early as October 26! The more signers and contributors, the more ads we can run!
Whether or not you contribute to the Signature Ad, please share this Peace Voter Guide with your contacts who are in NJ's 7th Congressional District ASAP! Click here for a list of municipalities in that District.
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William D. Hartung is Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, where he focuses on the arms industry and US military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the Center’s Sustainable Defense Task Force. He is the author of several books, including Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, 2011). He has been a featured expert on national security issues on CBS 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News, the PBS Newshour, CNN, Fox News, and scores of local, regional, and international TV and radio outlets.
Sébastien Philippe is a Research Scholar with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. His research includes nuclear non-proliferation, arms control, disarmament, and justice issues. He is the co-author of Toxique (French University Press, 2021), an investigation into the radiological and environmental impact of French nuclear tests in the Pacific, which was a Finalist for the 2021 Albert Londres Prize (the French equivalent of the Pulitzer) and won a 2022 Sigma Award for best data journalism in the world, among other accolades. Philippe received his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and has served as a nuclear weapon system safety engineer in France's Ministry of Armed Forces.
Click here to read Mr. Philippe's article, Who Would Take the Brunt of an Attack on U.S. Nuclear Missile Silos?, published in the December, 2023 issue of Scientific American.
Heather Brandon-Smith is the legislative director for foreign policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). Heather leads FCNL’s work to repeal outdated war authorization, promote respect for human rights and international law, and reduce U.S. armed interventions around the world.
Prior to joining FCNL, Heather served as the Advocacy Counsel for National Security at Human Rights First, where she worked to advance U.S. national security policies that are consistent with human rights and the rule of law. Heather is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her writing has appeared in CNN, The Hill, Lawfare, Just Security, The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, and Intercross. She holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. in Politics and International Relations, an LL.B., and an LL.M. from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
In addition to leading our 45th Annual Multifaith Service for Peace at Princeton University Chapel the morning of November 17th, Rev. Taylor will also speak at our afternoon Annual Conference for Peace.
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The Rev. Adam Russell Taylor is president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community.
Taylor previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group and served as the vice president in charge of Advocacy at World Vision U.S. and the senior political director at Sojourners. He has also served as the executive director of Global Justice, an organization that educates and mobilizes students around global human rights and economic justice.
He was selected for the 2009/2010 class of White House Fellows and served in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs and Public Engagement. Taylor is a graduate of Emory University, the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. Taylor also serves on the Independent Sector Board, the Global Advisory Board of Tearfund UK, and is a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellowship.
Taylor is ordained in the American Baptist Church and the Progressive National Baptist Convention and serves in ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, VA.
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