National Peace Foundation Advisory Board Members

Mariann Laue Baker

Olga Bessolova, Russian Association of University Women, Moscow

Elise Boulding, Ph.D., Professor Emertia, Dartmouth College

Betty Bumpers, Founder of Peace Links and Every Child By Two

David Cohen, Co-Director, Advocacy Institute

John P. Dunfey, Chair, Global Citizens Circle

Roger Fisher, Ph.D., Harvard Law School

Herbert C. Kelman, Ph.D. Harvard University

Jane Mapes

Rukudzo Murapa, Vice Cheancellor, Africa University, Zimbabwe

M.J Rosenberg, Author, IPF Friday

Abdul Aziz Said, Ph.D., School of International Service, American University

The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, South Africa

Thomas C. Westropp, Former Board Chair, National Peace Foundation

The Honorable Andrew Young, Good Works International

  National Peace Foundation Board of Directors 

  Sarah Harder * Richard T. Arndt * J. Thomas Bertrand, ex officio * Lee Feldman  

Joan A. Kuriansky * Cathy Sultan

Sarah Harder

Chair of the Board & the President of National Peace Foundation 

Sarah Harder has worked for thirty years on issues involving women at grassroots, national and international levels. She serves as President and Board Chair of the National Peace Foundation in Washington DC, where she also co-chairs the National Women’s Conference Committee and serves on the National Council of Women’s Organizations. As the president of the American Association of University Women (1985-89), she chaired its $46 million Education Foundation. She served as vice-president of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) based in Geneva. Her study and action guide, “Women’s Future, World Future: Education for Survival and Progress” is used by IFUW affiliates in 68 countries. She is Professor Emerita from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she served for 34 years as administrator and faculty member. Through the National Peace Foundation, Sarah Harder has worked since 1991on civil society, peace building and social partnership projects involving NGOs, their communities and their government in the Russian Federation.

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J. Thomas Bertrand

Ex Officio Member of Board    

J. Thomas Bertrand has been associated with the National Peace Foundation since 1991-92 when, as an NPF distinguished fellow, he monitored elections in Armenia and Georgia and worked for a year with universities in the Caucasus, the Middle East, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while he was on leave from his post as university secretary and assistant to the president at Emory University.  After leaving Emory and presiding for eight years (1993-2001) over the growth of Brevard College in the mountains of North Carolina, he served for several years as general counsel and chair of the Advisory Board for the National Peace Foundation, before stepping into the role of NPF’s Executive Director in April 2006.  Tom is an attorney, educator, mediator, Quaker activist and writer, residing with his wife and 16-year-old daughter near Brevard NC, where he is a principal in SCIAN:
The Institute for Scientific Policy Analysis, one of the National Peace Foundation’s key partners in the Coalition for Health Diplomacy.

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Richard T. Arndt

Member of the Board

Richard Arndt "spent 24 years in the US Foreign Service focusing on expanding the potential for cultural diplomacy. Arndt left his professorship in 18th-century French literature at Columbia University in 1961 to take up cultural diplomacy with the US Information Agency and the Department of State, serving as US Cultural Attach in Beirut, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Tehran, Rome and Paris, and in various positions with USIA and State.

"On retirement in 1985, he served as Diplomat in Residence at the University of Virginia (1986-89) where he also directed mid-career educational programs and joined the permanent faculty of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction; he then taught at the George Washington University (1992-94). He served on the boards of the National Peace Foundation (NPF), Americans for the Universality of UNESCO (AUU), the Fulbright Association (FA), the Council of International Programs, the National Association of Foreign Student Affairs, the US Committee for the Preservation of Ancient Tyre, the International Society for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Interchange (ISECSI), and on the advisory bodies of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, the American Iranian Council, and the NPF. He is also Founding-President of the Roth Endowment, honoring his late wife and fellow cultural diplomat Lois W. Roth. Dr. Arndt's latest book is entitled, First Resort of Kings: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century."

Lee Feldman

Member of the Board

Lee T. Feldman has over twenty years experience in management and consulting, working with the U.S. and foreign governments, research institutes, and corporations in the fields of health care, information services and technology companies. His consultancies have been mainly concerned with the application of advanced analytical methods to health care, international relations and defense intelligence. In the latter area he has served as chief scientist and technical director of a number of classified projects for military planning and intelligence missions, several established by Presidential directive. Lee began his university education at age 14 when he was accepted into a special course of studies in microbial genetics/physics at Rockefeller University. He continued his studies at Vanderbilt University (immunochemistry and oncology) and City University of New York (business management) and simultaneously began his career as a technology analyst. Mr. Feldman has served as a U.S. delegate both to international scientific conferences and election observer missions. For NPF Mr. Feldman has forged a connection with the Yitzhak Rabin Center and is an Advisor-designate to the Center.

Joan A. Kuriansky

Member of the Board

Joan A. Kuriansky, Executive Director of Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW). Ms. Kuriansky joined WOW in September 2001. Ms. Kuriansky has been an advocate on behalf of women's rights throughout her career. She has led several national and local organizations and most recently has consulted on an international level with a special focus on Russia, the New Independent States (NIS) and Southeast Asia.

Ms. Kuriansky was Executive Director of the Older Women's League (OWL) between 1987 and 1994. OWL is a national advocacy and membership organization with chapters throughout the country. OWL addresses a variety of economic and social issues facing women as they age. During this period, Ms. Kuriansky also co-founded the Campaign for Women's Health building a coalition of over 8 million women and men. In 1992, she was named "A Women of Vision" by the Ms. Foundation and received a Gloria Steinem award for her leadership in promoting health care reform.

Working in the field of violence against women since 1978, Ms. Kuriansky was a founding member and first President of My Sister's Place, the first shelter for battered women and their children in Washington, D.C. Subsequently, Ms. Kuriansky was Executive Director of Women Against Abuse (WAA) in Philadelphia, P.A. (1981-1987). Annually, WAA served over 20,000 battered women and their families through a myriad of programs including an emergency shelter, transitional housing and a fully staffed legal center. Ms. Kuriansky served as President of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence between 1983 and 1985.

In 1995 Ms. Kuriansky established the STOP TA Project and served as its Director between 1995 and 1998, after which time she served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Project. Under a contract with the US Dept. of Justice, the Project provides the primary technical assistance to States implementing the Violence Against Women Act.

Today, Ms. Kuriansky serves on a number of national and international boards including EMPOWER, ISAR, the National Center on Security Studies, the Muskie Institute on Public Affairs and several boards convened by the National Institute of Justice. In 1995 President Clinton appointed Ms. Kuriansky to serve on the President's Advisory Council on Violence Against Women on which she served until June 2001.

Ms. Kuriansky holds a J.D. (University of Virginia) and a Master's Degree in Urban Affairs (Occidental College).

Ms. Kuriansky invites you to contact her at jkuriansky@WOWonline.org or (202) 464-1596

Cathy Sultan

Member of the Board

Cathy Sultan  a native of Washington, D.C. lived in Beirut, Lebanon from 1969 to 1983. Her memoir "A Beirut Heart:One Woman's War," published by Scarletta Press in November 2005, recounts her family's survival during the Lebanese civil war. In her second book "Israeli and Palesetinian Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides", due to be published by Scarletta in March 2006, Cathy attempts to open eyes to the human realities of life in Israel-Palestine through interviews she conducted in Jerusalem and the West Bank. 

Cathy brings her expertise to NPF where she coordinates programs designed to educate NPF members about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These include working with Partners for Peace, a Washington-based NGO, to co-sponsor nation-wide tours of "Jerusalem Women Speak:Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Visiion," working with the Bereaved Family Circle to bring Israelis and Palestinians who have lost loved ones to the conflict to tour the US and finally, initiating Israeli-Palestinian Living Roiom Dialogue Groups across the country. Anyone interested in helping Cathy with her work can contact the NPF office.

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