Fund for Peace Hosts KQED Nobel Prize Documentary and Discussion on Who Will Lead Us to Peace in 2025?

2/27/2002

From: Pauline H. Baker, 202-223-7940, or Anne C. Bader, 202-223-7940, ext. 221, both of The Fund for Peace; http://www.fundforpeace.org/

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- To mark the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize, The Fund for Peace, a non-profit organization, and KQED, the largest PBS affiliate in California, will screen a preview of the KQED documentary series: "The Nobel: Visions of Our Century" at the Washington, D.C. National Press Club ballroom 6:30 - 9 p.m., today, Feb. 27.

Following the screening Dr. Pauline H. Baker, president of The Fund for Peace will lead an expert panel to engage the audience on "Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025?" Panelists include John Boland, executive vice president, KQED, Michael Isip, executive producer, Dr. Stephen J. Flanagan, director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, and Nemat Shafik, vice president, Private Sector Development, and Infrastructure, The World Bank.

"In reviewing the range of Nobel Prize recipients over the last 100 years, a roadmap emerges that helps to unravel the contradictory history of peace," said Boland. "In the past century, the violence of war has intensified, but at the same time, we have witnessed momentous advances for the cause of peace. The legacy and history of the Nobel Prize help us identify what we require of our peace leaders and peacemakers in the 21st Century," Boland concluded.

In the past century, the Nobel Peace Prize winners have been an inspiration through several different challenges of war and peace, notes Baker: "Clearly, the new century will present new challenges, actors, voices, and forces." Dr. Baker adds: "The new warmongers are manifesting themselves already. The central question remains: 'who will counter them by waging peace?'"

--- Notes to Editors John Boland was named chief operating officer after serving as executive vice president of marketing and development at KQED since 1996. Previously, he was senior vice president and deputy director of the marketing communications division in the New York office of Hill and Knowlton, and then served as senior vice president and general manager of the San Francisco office of Burson-Marsteller, a subsidiary of Young & Rubicam.

Pauline H. Baker has been the president of The Fund for Peace since 1996. Dr. Baker is an expert in foreign policy, conflict prevention and management, ethnic conflict, peace-building, and Africa. She lived and worked in Nigeria from 1964 to 1975 and was a lecturer at the University of Lagos, Nigeria in Faculty of Business and Social Science. Subsequently, Dr. Baker was staff director for the Africa Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, research scientist at the Human Affairs Research Center at the Battelle Memorial Institute (1981-1984), and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.