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Mary King
Mary King
Prize-winning author and political scientist Mary King is professor of peace and conflict studies at the University for Peace, whose main campus is in Costa Rica. She is also distinguished scholar at the American University Center for Global Peace, Washington, D.C. In 2004, she will additionally be visiting research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, England.
During the Carter Administration, Dr. King had world-wide responsibility for the Peace Corps, then in sixty countries. In the years since, she has acted as a special adviser to former President Jimmy Carter on the Middle East, often serving as his envoy to political and business leaders of the region.
Dr. King is the author of several books and received a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award in 1988. In November 2003 in Mumbai, India, she will be awarded this year's Jamnalal Bajaj prize, a juried international award bestowed for the advancement of Gandhian values outside India. Previous winners include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Joseph Rotblat, and Professor Johan Galtung. She holds a Ph.D. in international politics from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.
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