Annual Evening for Peace

The Foundation hosts its Annual Evening for Peace in Santa Barbara, CA to present our annual Distinguished Peace Leadership Award and/or World Citizenship Award.  The event also serves as the Foundation’s principal public fundraising activity of the year.

View the Evening For Peace 2007 page.

Sadako Peace Day

Each year the Foundation hosts a public commemoration on or about August 6th to remember and pay tribute to the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII and to all innocent victims of war.  The Foundation sponsors this event involving music, poetry and reflection at Sadako Peace Garden (a special garden created by the Foundation) at La Casa de Maria Retreat Center in Montecito, CA.

View the Sadako Peace Day 2008 page.

Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity's Future

This endowed lectureship is named for Frank K. Kelly, a founder and senior vice president of the Foundation.  The lecture, focusing on hope and inspiration for a positive future for humanity, is presented annually by a distinguished individual and is subsequently published and distributed by the Foundation.  The lecture was inaugurated in 2002 by Frank Kelly himself.  In 2003, the lecture was given by Princeton Professor Emeritus and Foundation Board Chair Richard Falk; in 2004, by Body Shop founder and former Board member, Dame Anita Roddick; in 2005, by eminent psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton; in 2006 by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire; in 2007 by Jakob von Uexkull, the founder of the Right Livelihood Awards and of the World Future Council; and in 2008 by prominent peace educator Colman McCarthy.

The 2009 Lecture will be presented by the best-selling author Frances Moore Lappé.

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