Quaker Peace Roundtable

MR. MD. RUHUL AMIN (Panel on Peacekeeping): Counsellor, Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the United Nations. Educated in Bangladesh, France and the Hague, Ruhul Amin has worked extensively with his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UN Security Council, UNESCO, UN peacekeeping efforts, disarmament treaty negotiations, and its work on human rights, displaced persons, and migrants.

STEVE ANGELL (Workshop- Alternatives to Violence Program):
        Steve Angell has been involved in the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) for more than 20 years. Steve has also been a social worker for 65 years. His practice has been in human services planning and community development.

JOHN CALVI (Workshop: Activist Self-Care; Panel: What Keeps Us Going):
        John Calvi is a released Friend with a ministry helping people to heal from trauma. He has worked with tortured refugees, people with AIDS and survivors of sexual assault throughout North America for 19 years. His teachings on avoiding burnout are popular with activists in all fields. He lives in Putney, Vermont.

KIM CARLYLE (Workshop: The Environment & Peace Witness):
        A member of Friends Committee on Unity with Nature’s steering committee, Kim Carlyle speaks, writes and conducts workshops on global climate change, population concerns, and simple living. He is one of the founders of Quaker Eco-Witness and lives a low impact life style in the mountains of Western North Carolina with his wife, Susan.

MAX CARTER (Panel: Quaker Peace Activists share their Stories; Workshop: Young Friends and Peace Witness):
        Max Carter is the director of Friends Center at Guilford College, where he also teaches in religious studies, coordinates the campus ministry program, and directs the Quaker Leadership Scholars Program. Originally from rural Indiana and a pastoral Friend, Max was a C.O. during the Vietnam War, doing alternative service 1970-1972 at the Ramallah Friends School. Max is married with 3 children.

HELENA COBBAN (Workshop: War Crimes Trials vs. Truth Commissions; Penel: Peacekeeping):
        A member of Charlottesville (VA) Meeting, Helena Cobban is also a contributing writer for The Christian Science Monitor (Boston), and Al-Hayat (London).
        Helena Cobban has contributed a regular column on global affairs, including peace-building, to The Christian Science Monitor since 1990. Her latest book, The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss our Global Future, was published by the University Press of Virginia in May 2000.
        Helena Cobban received her B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University. From 1974 through 1981, she worked as a journalist in the Middle East, including five years as a Beirut-based regional correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, and The Sunday Times of London. Since 1982, she has lived primarily in the United States, though her work has taken her back to the Middle East (many times)-- and to Europe, Japan, and North Africa.
        She has held research fellowships at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs, Georgetown University, the Brookings Institution, and George Mason University's Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She was an early recipient of a SSRC-MacArthur Post-doctoral Fellowship in International Peace and Security. She served on the U.S. Institute of Peace Working Group on Regional Arms Control in the Middle East (1991-92), and has testified on Middle East issues before a number of committees of the U.S. Congress.
        Before writing The Moral Architecture of World Peace, Helena Cobban published four books on war and peace issues in the Middle East. She has published numerous essays, reviews, and scholarly articles. Her shorter pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, and elsewhere, and she has been interviewed a number of times for National Public Radio.