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The 2012-2013 John Price and Marica Price World Affairs Lecture Series

Tue, Sept 18, 2012, 7:00pm
Preventing Violence in an Adversarial World
John Marks,
President and Founder,
Search for Common Ground

Preventing violent conflict is among the most crucial challenges facing humanity today. Where mass violence exists, economic development is stifled; human rights are abused; and the environment is devastated. Current problems are simply too complex and too interconnected to be settled on a violent, adversarial basis. What is needed, in John Marks’ view, is a mass attitudinal and behavioral shift toward non-violent, non-adversarial ways of dealing with differences.

30 years ago, Marks founded Search for Common Ground to play a key role in catalyzing such a shift. Under his leadership, Search has become n into the world’s largest non-profit conflict prevention and peacebuilding organization with offices in 30 countries. Marks is a former Foreign Service Officer, Executive Assistant to the late US Senator Clifford Case (R-NJ), and Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics. He is also an award-winning, best-selling author, a Skoll Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship, and an Ashoka Senior Fellow. A graduate of Cornell University, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UN’s University of Peace.

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