David Cortright is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum, and a visiting faculty fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Cortright was executive director of SANE, the largest U.S. peace organization, from 1977 to 1987, and was the recipient of a research and writing award for peace and international cooperation from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He has authored several books and numerous articles about peace issues. He will be the Keynote Speaker Friday morning during the 2002 Annual Assembly of your Kentucky Council ofc Churches.
David Cortright (Ph.D. Union Institute 1975), also teaches
in the Peace Studies Department at Goshen College. He has served
as consultant or adviser to various agencies of the United Nations,
the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International
Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
While serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Cortright
experienced a crisis of conscience and began to speak out against
what he considered an evil and unjust war. His army experience
set him on a lifelong course of advocacy and research for peace.
He served for ten years as director of the disarmament organization,
SANE. Over the past decade he has become a leading authority on
the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international
peacemaking. He is the author or editor of nine books, including
Peace Works: The Citizen's Role in Ending the Cold War (Westview
Press, 1993); The
Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention
(Rowman Littlefield,1997); and
The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s
(Lynne Rienner, 2000); Smart
Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft (Rowman and Littlefield,
2002); and Sanctions
and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Actions (Lynne
Rienner, 2002). Cortright teaches a course in non-violent social
change and co-directs Kroc Institute research projects on sanctions
and South Asia.
Selected Recent Publications by David Cortright
Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action, by David Cortright and George A. Lopez (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner, 2002).
Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft, ed. David Cortright and George A. Lopez (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
Policy Report: Sanctions, Inspection, and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq, by David Cortright, Alistair Millar and George A. Lopez (May 2002)
With Samina Ahmed, South Asia at the Nuclear Crossroads, U.S. Policy Options Toward South Asian Nuclear Proliferation: The Role of Sanctions & Incentives (jointly published by The Fourth Freedom Forum, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Managing of the Atom Project at Harvard University, April 2001).
With George A. Lopez, Alistar Millar, Smart Sanctions: Restructuring UN Policy in Iraq, with Linda Gerber, contributing editor (a joint policy report published by the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan Be. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, April 2001).
"A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions," The Nation, December 3, 2001
"Proposed: A More Effective and Just Response to Terrorism," USA Today Magazine, January 2002
"The Winter Soldiers Movement: GI's and Veterans Against the Vietnam War," Peace and Change, 27, no. 1 (January 2002): 118-124
David Cortright, “Powers of Persuasion: Sanctions and Incentives in the Shaping of International Society,” International Studies (New Delhi) 38, no. 2 (2001): 113-125. [Abstract]
