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Cortright is the director of policy studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies of the University of Notre Dame and chair of the board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. He is the author or editor of 17 books, most recently 鈥淓nding Obama鈥檚 War鈥� (Paradigm, 2011) and 鈥淭owards Nuclear Zero鈥� (Routledge, IISS, 2010) and also is the editor of Peace Policy, Kroc's online journal. He blogs at davidcortright.net.

Other recent works by Cortright include the second edition of 鈥淕andhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political Age鈥� (Paradigm, 2009), 鈥淧eace: A History of Movements and Ideas鈥� (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and 鈥淯niting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat鈥� (MIT Press, 2007), co-edited with George A. Lopez. Over the past decade, Cortright and Lopez have written or co-edited a series of major works on multilateral sanctions, including 鈥淪mart Sanctions鈥� (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), 鈥淪anctions and the Search for Security鈥� (Lynne Rienner, 2002) and 鈥淭he Sanctions Decade鈥� (Lynne Rienner, 2000). Cortright also is editor of 鈥淭he Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention鈥� (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

Cortright has written widely about nonviolent social change, nuclear disarmament, and the use of multilateral sanctions and incentives as tools of international peacemaking. He has provided research services to the foreign ministries of Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland, and has served as consultant or advisor to agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war. As an active duty soldier during the Vietnam War, he spoke against that conflict. In 1978, he was named executive director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, which under his leadership grew from 4,000 to 150,000 members and became the largest disarmament organization in the United States. He also was actively involved in the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s. In November 2002, he helped to create Win Without War, a coalition of national organizations opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

After graduating with a B.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame in 1968, Cortright earned an M.A. degree in history from New York University. He completed doctoral studies in political science at the Union Institute in residence at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.

The A.J. Muste Memorial Lecture Series began in 1985 to commemorate the life and work of A.J. Muste, an alumnus of 换妻社区 (1905) who became a tireless activist for the causes of peace and justice.

Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson, Muste鈥檚 biographer, presented the inaugural lecture. Subsequent lectures have been given by theologians, peace activists, labor organizers and prison reformers.

Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th Street between College and Columbia avenues.