David Krieger's Bio - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

RESUMEDAVID KRIEGERDavid Krieger is a leader in the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons andbuild a more peaceful world. He is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, andhas served as president of the Foundation since 1982. Dr. Krieger is a founder and amember of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, a global network of over 2000organizations and municipalities committed to the total elimination of nuclear weapons.He is the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers andScientists for Global Responsibility. He also serves as vice-chair of the Middle PowersInitiative and as chair of its Executive Committee. He is a Councilor on the WorldFuture Council, which seeks to be a voice for future generations, and he serves as cochairof the Council’s Peace and Disarmament Commission.Under Dr. Krieger’s leadership the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has initiatedmany innovative and important projects for building peace, strengthening internationallaw, abolishing nuclear weapons and empowering new peace leaders. He has lecturedthroughout the United States, Europe and Asia on issues of peace, security, internationallaw, and the abolition of nuclear weapons. He has received many awards for his work fora more peaceful and nuclear weapons-free world. He has been interviewed on CNN,MSNBC, BBC and many other national and international television and radio shows.He is the author of many books and studies of peace in the Nuclear Age. He haswritten or edited more than 20 books. He has also written hundreds of articles and bookchapters. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Christian ScienceMonitor, National Catholic Reporter, Yes! Magazine, Truthout, Common Dreams, andCounterpunch. His chapter on “Creating a World without Nuclear Weapons” is includedin Dream of a Nation, Inspiring Ideas for a Better America.Dr. Krieger’s latest book is ZERO: The Case for Nuclear Weapons Abolition(2013). Other books he has written or edited are: The Path to Zero: Dialogues on NuclearDangers (with Richard Falk, 2012); Never Enough Flowers: The Poetry of Peace II(2012); Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action (2011); God’s Tears;Reflections on the Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2010), publishedin Japanese and English; The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (2009); At theNuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation? (with Richard Falk, 2008); TheDoves Flew High (2007); Joseph Rotblat – Visionary for Peace (with Reiner Braun, et al,2007); Today Is Not a Good Day for War (2005); Hold Hope, Wage Peace (2005);Einstein – Peace Now! (with Reiner Braun, 2005); Peace 100 Ideas (with Josh Chen,2003); Hope in a Dark Time, Reflections on Humanity’s Future (2003); The Poetry ofPeace (2003); Choose Hope, Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age (withDaisaku Ikeda, 2002), published in Japanese and English; A Maginot Line in the Sky;International Perspectives on Ballistic Missile Defense (with Carah Ong, 2001),published in Japanese and English; Nuclear Weapons and the World Court (with VedNanda, 1998); Waging Peace II, Vision and Hope for the 21st Century (with Frank K.Kelly, 1992); Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age, Ideas for Action (with Frank K. Kelly,

1988); Disarmament and Development: The Challenge of the International Control andManagement of Dual-Purpose Technologies (1981); and The Tides of Change, Peace,Pollution and Potential of the Oceans (with Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 1975).Dr. Krieger is the recipient of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Awardfor Saving Life on Earth (2012); the Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions’ Earth CharterAward for Democracy, Nonviolence and Peace (2011); OMNI Center for Peace, Justiceand Ecology Peace Writing Award for Poetry (2010); the Golden Dove Award (2009);Occidental College Alumnus of the Year (2008); the PeaceWriting Award for Poetry ofthe Peace and Justice Studies Association and OMNI Center for Peace, Justice andEcology (2007); the Freedom from War Peace Leadership Award (2006); Global Green’sMillennium Award for International Environmental Leadership (2005); the PeaceWritingAward for Poetry of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and OMNI Center forPeace, Justice and Ecology (2005); the Peace Educator of the Year Award of theConsortium of Peace Research, Education and Development (2001); the Gakudo PeaceAward of the Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation (2001); Soka Gakkai Hiroshima PeaceAward (2000); Peace Award of the International Journal of Humanities and Peace (2000);Soka Gakkai International Peace and Culture Award (1997); Soka University Award ofHighest Honor (1997); Peace Award of the War and Peace Foundation (1996); BigCanvas Award of Santa Barbara Magazine (1996); and the Bronze Medal of theHungarian Engineers for Peace (1995).He serves on the Advisory Councils of many peace and justiceorganizations, including Free the Children International (Toronto), the Bianca JaggerHuman Rights Foundation (London), the Right Livelihood Foundation (Sweden), theInternational Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Israel), theInternational Institute for Peace (Vienna), Mahatma Gandhi Center for GlobalNonviolence (Virginia), Mayors for Peace (Hiroshima), the Peace Resources Cooperative(Yokohama), the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (Sweden), theLawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (New York), the Foundation for ConsciousEvolution (Santa Barbara), and Peace Media (peacejournalism.com). He is a member ofthe Club of Rome, the Committee of 100 for Tibet, and a Fellow of the World BusinessAcademy.Dr. Krieger served as Panel Chair of the Citizens’ Hearing on the Legality of U.S.Actions in Iraq, held in Tacoma, Washington in 2007, and as a member of the Jury ofConscience of the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul in 2005.In his early career he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii andSan Francisco State University. He worked at the Center for the Study of DemocraticInstitutions on issues of international law, ocean governance, nuclear terrorism anddisarmament; and at the Foundation for Reshaping the International Order (RIOFoundation) in the Netherlands on the effects of dual-purpose technologies ondisarmament, development and the environment.

He has a BA in Psychology from Occidental College, and holds MA and Ph.D.degrees in Political Science from the University of Hawaii as well as a J.D. from theSanta Barbara College of Law. Dr. Krieger served for 20 years as a judge pro tem for theSanta Barbara Municipal and Superior Courts.He is married and has three children. His interests include tennis, hiking andpoetry.12/13