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Long time peace activist, former senior engineer in Silicon Valley computer industry, President Assocition of World Citizens, citizen diplomat

 Douglas Mattern
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Served as president or chairperson of several peace-related organizations over a 40-year period.  This includes the Association of World Citizens, which is 30-year old international organization with NGO status at the United Nations.

 

Author of over 200 published articles on peace-related issues.  Main author of two disarmament resolutions signed by 51 Nobel Laureates and accepted by the United Nations Disarmament Department.  Main author of the 2001 Taipei Peace Declaration signed by over 400,000 people and presented to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.

 

Chairperson of nine peace conferences or commissions held in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, and at the United Nations NGO conference.  Hosted over 300-radio shows broadcast over Radio for Peace International.

 

Traveled widely on peace-related activities, including six Citizen Diplomacy trips to the Soviet Union in the 1980s as a speaker on the Volga Peace Cruises.  Initiated the joint U.S./USSR nuclear disarmament demonstration and rally held in 1983 in Moscow’s Gorky Park.

 

Wrote and presented World Citizen Awards to former United Nations Assistant-Secretary-General Robert Muller, The Reverend Jesse Jackson, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr., and Colonel Stanislav Petrov that has resulted in a movie being made of his life that is entitled:  “The Man Who Saved the World.”  The movie will be released to movie theaters around September 2007.

 

During this same period worked full-time as a senior engineer/manager in commercial Silicon Valley corporations, with the longest period at Apple Computer.  Main activity was designing, equipping, and managing failure analysis/technology assessment laboratories.  Specialized in transmission and scanning electron microscopy and won several scientific photography prizes, including a national scientific convention first prize photograph that was exhibited in the New York Museum of Modern Art for three months.

 

Recipient of the Albert Einstein Peace Award from the International Association of Educators for World Peace, the Lifetime Achievement Peace Award from the Federation of World Peace and Love, and several other peace awards.

 

Married 40 yeas.  Education at San Jose City College, San Jose State University, and Stanford University. 


Birth Place: Creede, CO 

Accomplishments: Albert Einstein Peace Award from the Interntional Association of Educators for World Peace; The Lifetime Achievement Award for Love and Peace from the Federation of World Peace and Love

     



Books

Looking for Square Two by Douglas Mattern
Topics include: Nuclear disarmament, United Nations, war Business, citizens diplomacy, democracy, our place in the universe, personal experience in over 30 years of national and international peace activity, plus 25 years experience as a senior engineer in major corporations TECHNICAL PROBLEM REQUIRES TO MOVE THE SIDEBAR DOWN TO READ THE TEXT...
  

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Short Stories

On the Edge of a Galaxy
 by Douglas Mattern
A walk through a city is a revelation about humans and intelligence...


Citizens Diplomacy on the Volga River
 by Douglas Mattern
Citizens Diplomacy trips to the former Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War in the 1980s...


Citizens Diplomacy on the Mississippi
 by Douglas Mattern
The 1986 US/USSR Citizens Diplomacy trip down the Mississippi River on the Delta Queen Steamboat. Major media coverage including a spread in Time Magazine...



Poetry

Walking Along the Sandy Shore
 by Douglas Mattern
Pondering the universe and humanity...


Midnight Sky
 by Douglas Mattern
Thoughts on our place in the universe...


Our Childhoods End
 by Douglas Mattern
Ending war and its business to create a better and just world...


If the Atomic Clock Strikes Twelve
 by Douglas Mattern
This poem is about the increasing danger of nuclear weapons DUE TO A TECHNICAL PROBLEM MOVE THE SIDEBAR DOWN TO READ THE POEM...


World Citizens
 by Douglas Mattern
The new responsibility to think and act as citizens of the world...



Articles

Nuclear Weapons, Fools, Folly, and The War Business
 by Douglas Mattern
Voting at the United Nations General Assembly shows just what nations are the real problem in moving from war and violence to a global community...


Our Childhood's End - The Next Great Evolution
 by Douglas Mattern
The changes that are required to move beyond war and organized violence to a better and safer world....


Hiroshima at 62 With Time Running Out
 by Douglas Mattern
The continuing threat from Nuclear Weapons...


The United Nations Is Still Our Last Great Hope
 by Douglas Mattern
The need for the American people to understand what the United Nations accomplishes each and every year and its imperative role in future years....


July 4 - Reclaiming Democracy - Moving Forward
 by Douglas Mattern
The need to reclaim our democracy and move foward to a better and safer world...


The Decline of Democracy and Rise of Plutocracy
 by Douglas Mattern
The article focuses on how democracy in the USA is seriously threatened by the growing disparity between the very rich and everyone else,...


If the Atomic Clock Strikes Twelve
 by Douglas Mattern
The increasing danger of nuclear war TECHNICAL PROBLEM REQUIRES TO MOVE SIDEBAR DOWN TO READ TEXT...


A Human Manifesto for the 21st Century
 by Douglas Mattern
The Human Manifesto describes the values and motivation required to establish a better and safer world for present and future generations MOVE SIDEBAR DOWN TO READ TEXT...


Five Minutes to Save the World
 by Douglas Mattern
The story of Colonel Stanislav Petrov and his heroic decision than many arms experts agree may have saved the world from nuclear war...


When the War Busines Rules the World
 by Douglas Mattern
The influence of the armament industry in political and economic decisiions...


Links

Association of World Citizens
Information and activities of the Association of World Citizens


New campaign to achieve nuclear disarmament
A major campaign to reduce the nuclear weapons danger by first removing all nuclear warheads from hair-trigger alter

The Man Who Saved the World
Involvement in the upcoming movie The Man Who Saved the World, which is the story of Colonel Stanislav Petrov whose dramatic decision in 1983 as the duty officer at the former Soviet Unions command center may have saved the world from nuclear war


Additional information

Chairperson of eight interntional peace meetings; author of over 250 published articles and letters, author of Looking for Square Two - Moving from War & Violence to Global Community ISBN 1589823575

 
Contact Information

Association of World Citizens
55 New Montgomery Street Suite 224
San Francisco   CA   94105  
Work phone: 415 541 9610
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