David Cortright
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David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a research fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
As a soldier during the Vietnam War, Cortright joined with fellow soldiers to speak out against the war as part of the GI peace movement. In 1978 Cortright was named the executive director of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, which under his direction became the largest disarmament organization in the U.S. Cortright initiated the merger of SANE and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and served for a time as co-director of the merged organization. In 2002 Cortright helped to found the Win Without War coalition in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
He is the author or editor of 15 books, including most recently Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat (MIT Press, 2007), co-edited with George A. Lopez; and Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence in an Age of Terrorism (Paradigm, 2006). Cortright has recently completed Building Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, forthcoming 2008).
