Meet the Speaker: David Cortright
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David Cortright is professor emeritus and former director of
the Peace Accords Matrix at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.
He is chair of the board of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a co-founder and board member of Win Without War. As an enlisted soldier from 1968 to 1971 he spoke out against the Vietnam War and filed a federal lawsuit against the Army to defend the right to dissent against unjust war.
Prof. Cortright is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including Governance for Peace: How Inclusive, Participatory and Accountable Institutions Promote Peace and Prosperity (2017) and Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (2008), both by Cambridge University Press, and with George A. Lopez half a dozen books on multilateral economic sanctions, including The Sanctions Decade (2000).