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Michael Hovey:
"Canaries in the Coal Mine:
The Role of Peace Advocates When War Approaches."
Mr. Michael Hovey,
Executive
Director of the Hague Appeal for Peace.
After five years of U.S. Naval service Mr.
Hovey received an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector in 1976. He
then made a transition and became as a Maryknoll missioner in Bolivia and Peru,
where he lived and worked with residents in a shantytown near Lima (1977-1982).
For decades he has been involved with Pax Christi, the global Catholic peace
movement, where he served as Executive Director of the Pax Christi Center on
Conscience and War in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1985-1990) as well as on the Pax
Christi USA National Council. Mr. Hovey eventually became the US representative
to Pax Christi International and finally the principle NGO representative to Pax
Christi International on the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He is also a professor of Peace and
Justice Education at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Mr. Hovey works
closely with the Office of the Secretary General at the UN as well as with
Ambassadors on the UN Security Counsel. He is well known and respected for his
diplomacy, fairness and transparency.
This event was co-sponsored by
the Center for Conflict Resolution
and the Office of Cultural Affairs and Museum Programs.
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