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about Professor Ken Brown
Peace studies pioneer Ken Brown
honored for lifetime achievement
by national association
 Manchester
College Professor Kenneth L. Brown, a national peace studies pioneer,
has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Peace and Justice
Studies Association. More than 300 colleges and universities are members
of the group.
For more than 50 years, Brown has been a nonviolent activist and
educator for peace and justice. For 25 years, he directed the peace
studies program at the 1,100-student Manchester College in northern
Indiana.
An ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren (one of the historic
peace churches), Brown has founded several organizations, including the
church’s grassroots anti-war organization and the War Tax Resisters'
Penalty Fund.
Brown assumed the leadership of the college’s Peace Studies Institute
and Program in Conflict Resolution in 1980. The interdisciplinary
curriculum integrates study of conflict resolution, global studies,
religious and philosophical bases of peacemaking with nonviolence theory
and practice.
With leadership in merging study with action, Brown has served as
consultant to peace studies programs across the country and has led
study teams to Vietnam, Brazil, Northern Ireland, Haiti, Thailand,
India, Jamaica, Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico and Cuba.
International activists such as Elaine Zoughbi, who has worked for
enduring peace in Palestine for decades, and Yvonne Dilling, whose work
on behalf of human rights in Central America has received international
acclaim, say Brown inspired them to lead lives of active service for
peace and justice in challenging international settings.
“Ken’s class transformed my life,” said Robert C. Johansen, a widely
published expert on international relations and global governance. “We
sensed that we were children of the universe, standing on an ethical
foundation that transcended race, nation, and our time in history,
gently breathing the air of immortality.” Johansen, who studied under
Brown in the early ’60s, is a senior fellow with the Joan B. Kroc
Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre
Dame.
For more about Manchester College’s peace studies program, visit
www.manchester.edu
For more
about The Peace and Justice Studies Association, visit
www.peacejusticestudies.org
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