HONORARY FOUNDER

President Rodrigo Carazo,
former president of Costa Rica and
founderof the United Nations
University for Peace

FOUNDING FRIENDS

Carmen Alvarado,
artist/art teacher (Costa Rica)

Thomas Steven Crisman, MD, Ph.D.,
cardiologist/biochemist (U.S.A.)

Verona Fonté, Ph.D.,
film maker/psychologist (U.S.A.)

Erich Griessler, Ph.D., sociologist (Austria)

Joan Halifax, Ph.D.,
Zen roshi/anthropologist (U.S.A.)

Edie Hartshorne, musician/writer (U.S.A.)

Robert Kyr, Ph.D., composer (U.S.A.)

Peter Levitt, poet/writer (U.S.A./Canada)

Heinz-Jürgen Metzger,
peace activist (Germany)

Ligia Ramirez, peace activist (Costa Rica)

Doreen Rao, Ph.D.,
music conductor (U.S.A./Canada)

Philip Schechter, MD,
psychiatrist/martial artist (U.S.A.)

Yoshimoto Tanahashi, Rev.,
Shinto priest (Japan)

Mañec van der Lugt,
peace organizer (The Netherlands)

BENEFACTOR

Philip Schechter, MD

ADVISORY BOARD

Water Truett Anderson,
President, World Academy of Art and Science, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Abelardo Brenes, Ph.D.,
Professor of Peace Education, United Nations University for Peace, Costa Rica.

Peter J. Croll,
Directer, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Bonn, Germany

Claire Greensfelder,
Executive Director, Martin Lut her King, Jr. Freedom Center, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.

Joan Halifax Roshi, Ph.D., Abbot,
Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.

David Krieger, Ph.D.,
President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

Robert Muller, Ph.D.,
Former Under-Secretary-General of
the United Nations

Michael Nagler, Ph.D.,
Prof., Peaace and Conflict Study Program, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

Mayumi Oda,
Founder, Plutonium Free Future, and Inochi, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

STAFF

Founding Director
Kazuaki Tanahashi

Codirector
Edie Hartshorne

Development Director
Marc Lesser

Costa Rica Coordinator
Sandra Ribas S.

Community and Education
Minette Mangahas

Research Director
Haru Murakawa, Ph.D.

International Outreach Director
Suzanne Pearce

Film Director
Catherine Margerin

Art Director
Sean O’Donoghue

Treasurer
Christine Haggarty