John Dear

Fr. John Dear, S.J. wiki is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, lecturer, and writer of approximately twenty books on nonviolence, including Living Peace. His most recent book is A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World (2008) - Foreword by Martin Sheen.

" In 2008, John was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

"From 1998 until December 2000, he served as the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States."


 * Honorary Trustee, Dayton International Peace Museum
 * Advisory Council, Colombia Support Network
 * Advisory Council (2007), Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking
 * Advisory Board, Waging Nonviolence

His website is http://www.johndear.org