Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)
AMP’s Advisory Council and Board of Trustees
Lynn Brantley
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreLynn Brantley retired at the end of 2012 as President and CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank where she led the hunger relief movement in the Washington metro area since 1980. Under Lynn’s leadership, the CAFB developed a comprehensive approach to addressing hunger by providing nutrition education and training; hosting hunger conferences; attracting some 18,000 volunteers to the food bank annually […]Helen McLean Heller
AMP Board of Trustees
Find out moreHelen Heller has worked 25 years as a Special Education teacher at The Summit School in Maryland. Committed to using her skills as a reading specialist and language arts teacher to empower students to succeed, she has an awareness of the need and the skills for multi-sensory teaching and understands the importance of interactive technology in education. Ms. Heller serves as […]Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
AMP's former Fiscal Agent
Find out moreWhile we are pleased to announce that the American Museum of Peace (AMP) Inc. has been designated 501(c)(3) status by the IRS, retroactive to the date of AMP’s incorporation, October 2, 2012, the AMP wishes to thank the Institute of Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD) for their service as AMP’s 2012-2013 fiscal sponsor. AMP looks forward to many cooperative ventures in the […]- E: imtd@imtd.org
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Lockwood Rush
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreLocke Rush has over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist and marriage counselor. A graduate of Princeton University and a former officer in the United States Marine Corps, he also was co-author and co-producer of “Rooftops of New York,” an Academy Award nominated short subject film. He lived in Japan for four years, studying and practicing the disciplines of […]Amb. John W. McDonald
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreCHAIRMAN & CEO INSTITUTE FOR MULTI-TRACK DIPLOMACY (IMTD), Ambassador John W. McDonald is a lawyer, diplomat, former international civil servant, development expert and peacebuilder, concerned about world social, economic and ethnic problems. He spent twenty years of his diplomatic career in Western Europe and the Middle East and worked for sixteen years on United Nations economic and social affairs. He is currently […]Jacob Needleman
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreJacob Needleman is Professor of philosophy emeritus at San Francisco State University. He was educated in philosophy at Harvard University, Yale University and the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of numerous books including Money and the Meaning of Life, Lost Christianity, The Heart of Philosophy, The American Soul, Why Can’t We Be Good?, What Is God?, and, most recently, An Unknown World: Notes on […]Colman McCarthy
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreColman McCarthy (born March 24, 1938 in Glen Head, New York), an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, a self-proclaimed anarchist and long-time peace activist, directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post. His topics ranged from politics, religion, health, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. Washingtonian […]Wendy Chmielewski
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreWendy Chmielewski is the George R. Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and an authority on social and peace movements in the United States with particular expertise in women in intentional communities, women’s history, and women and the peace movement through the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current research interests are on women in the U.S. who ran, and were […]- E: wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu
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David Cortright
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreDavid Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute and Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. The author or editor of 17 books, most recently Ending Obama’s War (forthcoming May 2011, Paradigm) and Towards Nuclear Zero (Routledge, IISS, 2010) he also is the editor of Peace Policy, Kroc’s online journal. He blogs at davidcortright.net. […]Jonathan G. Granoff, Esq.
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreJonathan Granoff is an attorney, author and international advocate emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on advancing the rule of law to address the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He is president of the Global Security Institute, Senior Advisor to the ABA’s Committee on Arms Control and National Security and Co […]Anas “Andy” Shallal
AMP Advisory Council
Find out moreAnas “Andy” Shallal is an Iraqi American activist, artist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and proprietor of Busboys and Poets, restaurants in Washington DC, Hyattsville, MD and Arlington, VA. which feature prominent speakers, poets and authors and provide a venue for social and political activism. Since its inception, Busboys and Poets has become the most blogged about restaurants […]Michael Shank
AMP Advisory Council Member
Find out moreMichael Shank, Ph.D., is the Director of Media Strategy at Climate Nexus in New York City. Previously, Michael served as the Associate Director for Legislative Affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation and, prior to that, as US Congressman Michael Honda’s Senior Policy Advisor and Communications Director. Michael’s Ph.D. from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution is on Climate Conflict. […]Adam Nester
AMP Treasurer and Board of Trustees
Find out moreAdam Nester works as Advocate for Mental Health Systems and Policy at Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and is a second-year student at Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law. As Advocate at Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, he implements state-level and national legislative outreach to the United States Congress and Pennsylvania State Legislature, routinely meeting with key policy-makers and […]Richard M. Boardman
AMP Co-Founder and President (CEO), Board of Trustees, Executive Committee
Find out moreRichard Boardman is a co-founder and CEO of the American Museum of Peace. He attended Antioch College and graduated with a major in Philosophy and minor in pre-medical science. Rick ran educational seminars at the (Joan Baez) Institute for the Study of Nonviolence in 1969. He was a conscientious objector and later a draft resister who spent 18 months in […]Jeanne Boardman
AMP Co-Founder, Board of Trustees, Executive Committee
Find out moreThe Rev. Dr. Jeanne Boardman is an interfaith minister and Co-Founder of the American Museum of Peace (AMP). She is actively engaged in the study of wisdom and peace, interfaith dialogue, health and healing and a life of spiritual faithfulness. Her studies in philosophy/religion, comparative religion, political science, American history, “Just War” theory, and reconciliation in times of conflict led […]
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare,
social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)
But I say to you…that there are certain things within our social order and in the world to which I’m proud to be maladjusted.
To which all men of goodwill must be maladjusted until the Good Society is realized:
I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination.
I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry.
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism and the self-defeating effects of physical violence.
In the day when Sputniks and Explorers are dashing throughout space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968)