2003
Anniversary Meeting
"Toward Peace and Environmental
Security for Korea: Conversation of DMZ"
Speaker's Profile
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Ke
Chung Kim, Ph.D.
Chair, The DMZ Forum |
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Dr. Ke Chung Kim, Professor of Entomology, is the founding
Curator of the Frost Entomological Museum and Director, Center
for BioDiversity Research, Penn State Institutes of the Environment,
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
Professor Kim is a Fellow (Life Member) of the Korean Academy
of Science and Technology and members of many scientific and
professional societies and received many honors and citations
in national and international publications. Professor Kim
is a founding member of the DMZ Forum and has helped to promote
the preservation of Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ)
for conservation and peace.
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Dr. Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor,
Emeritus, at Harvard University, is a preeminent biological
theorist. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1956 and distinguished
himself over the next four decades as professor of zoology,
curator in entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
and researcher. Two of his 21 books have been awarded Pulitzer
prizes: On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1990). Dr. Wilson
has received some 75 awards in international recognition for
his contributions to science and humanity including the U.S.
National Medal of Science. For his conservation work he has
received the Audubon Medal and the Gold Medal of the World
Wide Fund for Nature.
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Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace, has been
well known as a peace activist since the early ‘60’s,
when she was a co-founder of Women Strike for Peace which
played a major role in bringing about the end of nuclear testing
in the atmosphere. She is President of the International Peace
Bureau, (Nobel Laureate 1910). She is also Joint-Principal
of the Peace Boat’s Global University and an Advisory
Board Member of Peace Child International’s Millennium
Action Fund and The DMZ Forum. As President of the Hague Appeal
for Peace, she is leading a campaign dedicated to the abolition
of war. It seeks to re-focus our minds on the vision of a
world in which violent conflict is publicly acknowledged as
illegitimate, illegal, and fundamentally unjust. To implement
that vision, the Hague Appeal for Peace has launched a Global
Peace Education Campaign.
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For over 30 years Hall Healy has facilitated environmental
and strategic planning projects in the United States and other
countries. Mr. Healy currently serves on the Board of Trustees
of The Nature Conservancy, Illinois Chapter and has served
on the Board of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. He helped
establish conservation partnerships between organizations
in the U.S., Mexico and Russia. A Lake Baikal, Russia/Lake
Michigan, U.S. partnership formed in 2001, is dedicated to
protecting watersheds and water quality in both countries
and to providing environmental education programs. Currently,
he is working with the DMZ Forum, a U.S.-based NGO to obtain
GEF funding to protect habitats in the Korean Demilitarized
Zone.
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Since early 2000, Harry Barnes has been serving as senior
advisor and consultant to the Asia Society. In that capacity
the principal area of focus for his activities has been South
Asia. He has also been exploring opportunities for American
NGOs to carry out exchanges with North Korea. From 1993 to
1999 he was at the Carter Center in Atlanta, For most of these
years he was director of the conflict resolution and human
rights programs. In addition he was for shorter periods of
time acting director of the democracy program and chair of
the human rights committee. In his Foreign Service career
(1951-88) Ambassador Barnes was Ambassador to Romania (1974-77),
Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Personnel
(1977-81), Ambassador to India (1981-85) and Ambassador to
Chile (1985-88). Earlier foreign assignments included Bombay,
Prague, Moscow, Kathmandu, and Bucharest. While in the Foreign
Service, he studied Russian, Nepali, Romanian, Hindi and Spanish.
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An attorney engaged in litigation of environmental and public
interest issues. A Sierra Club activist for more than a decade.
He is currently a member of the Club's International; Committee
and a representative of the Club at the United Nations. In
the aftermath of 9/11. he chaired a Global Environmental Security
and Survival Task Force which studied the impact of the security
crisis on the environmental movement. On the New York State
level, he is Chair of the Atlantic Chapter's Legislative Committee
and its Brownfields Task Force. He has spoken for inner city
communities seeking open space and for the Club in the successful
struggle to shut down an incinerator in the South Bronx.
As an attorney, he represented a watershed coalition of organizations
and activists. A former chair of the NYC Group, he has also
served as it Webmaster and Editor of the City Sierran, its
quarterly journal. He has published Op-Ed articles nationally
including pieces on corporate accountability for the destruction
of rain forests and globalization.
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David Benbow was born in Washington, DC during WWII while
his father was overseas with the United States Army. He enlisted
in the United States Army in September of 1967 and was sent
to Korea in February of 1968 after the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo
was captured by the North Koreans. He served with Co. C. 3/23rd
Infantry Division in and around the Korean DMZ for 16 months
and returned to North Carolina in June of 1969 and was honorably
discharged from the U.S. Army. He went to UNC Law School on
the GI bill. He has been a lawyer in Statesville for the last
28 years. He is the founder of DMZ Vets which is a 500 member
organization for U.S. soldiers who served in Korea after the
Korean War ended in 1953.
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