February 16-17, 1990
The 1990 Peace Prize Forum will be held at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Striving for Peace: Human Rights in the Global Village," is the second in a series of Peace Prize Forums organized in cooperation with the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The Peace Prize Forums are presented by a consortium of five colleges founded by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants. In addition to Augsburg College the co-sponsors are: Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

The 1990 Peace Prize Forum is dedicated to Nobel Laureate Dr. Andrei Sakharov. Dr. Sakharov had accepted our invitation in February, 1989, to participate as a keynote speaker and he reconfirmed his intentions to join us shortly before his death on December 14, 1989.

In life, Dr. Sakharov touched millions with his courageous dedication to the cause of peace. Through his outspoken opinions, his thoughtful writings and his tireless spirit, he has been and will continue to be an inspiration for all who champion the cause of peace.

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Speakers at the 1990 Peace Prize Forum

Jimmy Carter

Former President of the United States who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Became University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1982. Founded the Cadet Center of Emery University -- a policy center for addressing vital world issues through nonpartisan study and consultation. Continues to address environmental and human rights issues throughout the world through Global 2000, Inc., and the Carter-Menil Human Rights Foundation. Has served on the board of directors and is a regular volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization which helps build homes for the needy in the United States and underdeveloped countries.

Received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy. Did graduate work in nuclear physics at Union College.

Dr. Yelena Bonner

Human rights activist and wife of the late Dr. Andrei Sakharov, 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Bonner was just 14 when, in 1937, her mother and father were arrested in the great purge instigated by Joseph Stalin. Her father was later executed. Her mother was imprisoned until 1954.

In 1953, Bonner graduated as a physician from the First Leningrad Medical Institute. In the late 1960s she began working in the front lines of dissent, helping to publish underground newsletters. She met Andrei Sakharov, a prominent leader of the Soviet human rights movement, at the trial of a fellow dissident in 1970. They married in 1971. During the first years of Sakharov's internal exile in Gorky, Bonner was his contact with the outside world. Bonner herself was sentenced to exile in Gorky in 1984. At the end of 1986, the Sakharovs were allowed to return to Moscow to live and work.

Walter F. Mondale

Vice-President of the United States under Jimmy Carter. Candidate for President in 1984. Earned his law degree from the University of Minnesota. Admitted to the bar in 1956. Appointed Minnesota Attorney General in 1960.

Was appointed in 1964 to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy created by Hubert Humphrey's election to the vice-presidency. Was reelected twice, in 1966 and 1972. Now practicing law, teaching, studying, traveling in the United States and internationally, and serving as a corporate director.

Peter Duffy

Choir of the Executive Committee of Amnesty International, the 1977 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement independent of any government, political persuasion or religious creed. It plays a specific role in the international protection of human rights by seeking the release of prisoners of conscience, working for fair and prompt trials for ail political prisoners, and opposing the death penalty and torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of all prisoners without reservation.

Amnesty International has more than 700,000 members, subscribers and supporters in more than 150 countries and territories.

Geir Lundestad

Executive Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Member of the Advisory Council for Arms Control and Disarmament, Norwegian Foreign Office. Chairman of the Council, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Professor of History, University of Tromsö. M.A., University of Oslo; Ph.D., University of Tromsö.

His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso,
the 14th Dalai Lama

Religious and political leader of Tibet. Winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. Born in 1935 to a Tibetan peasant family living in China. Enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama in 1940. Fled to India in 1959 following an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in which thousands of people were killed. Has been waging a nonviolent struggle for nearly 40 years to end Chinese domination of his homeland.

The author of many books, including My Land and My People (1962) and Key to the Middle Way (1971).

Flora Lewis

Paris-based foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times. Paris bureau chief, 1972-1980. European diplomatic correspondent, 1976-1980. Earned B.A. degree at UCLA, M.S. at Columbia, and law degree at Princeton University. Arthur D. Morse fellow in communications and society at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1977. Author of Case History of Hope (1958), Red Pawn (1964), and One of Our H-Bombs is Missing (1967).

Lewis has had the opportunity to observe the sweeping changes in Eastern Europe in recent months.

Max M. Kampelman

Ambassador-at-Large and Chair of the Freedom House in Washington, D.C. Awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal in 1989. This medal recognizes "citizens of the United States who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens."

Earned his J.D. from New York University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, where he taught from 1946 to 1948.

Appointed by President Carter and reappointed by President Reagan to serve as Ambassador and Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe from 1980 -1983. Was a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations and served as Legislative Counsel to U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey. Was Counselor of the Department of State and, since March, 1985, Ambassador and Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Negotiations on Nuclear and Space Arms in Geneva. He is currently a partner in the Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson Law firm.

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