The 'Wisdom of the Elders' to prevent and resolve conflict

Speech by Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Sunday, August 1st, 10:30am - 1:30pm

The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building. Scilla Elworthy helped shape the concept and choice of The Elders, and will describe their work.

She will offer an analysis of four separate layers of work to break the cycle of violence, from the political level to the spiritual, which evolved from the Israel trip with Thomas. There will be many live examples, and we shall discuss together how this work may now develop further.

Scilla Elworthy, PhD. Great Britain

(Founder of the Oxford Research Group and Peace Direct)

Dr. Scilla Elworthy holds a PhD in political science and is the former Director of the Oxford Research Group (ORG), which she founded in 1982 to analyze how and by whom nuclear weapons decisions are made worldwide. It is for this work that she was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003 and nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

She then founded Peace Direct, which grew out of ORG’s conflict prevention work. She has been a consultant to UNESCO as well as research director for Minority Rights Group, before she managed a self-help organization in Africa. She is the author of many books and reports on defense and security issues and a gifted public lecturer in Europe, the United States, Russia, China and Japan.

www.worldfuturecouncil.org/scilla_elworthy.html
www.preparingforpeace.org/elworthy_biog.htm