Architects of Peace Visions of Hope in Words and Images

by Collopy, Michael; Cronkite, Walter

• ISBN13: 9781577312314
• ISBN10: 1577312317
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-20
• Publisher: New World Library

Summary

Seventy-five of the world's greatest peacemakers -- spiritual leaders, politicians, scientists, artists, and activists--testify to humanity's diversity and its potential. Featuring 16 Nobel Peace Prize laureates and such visionaries as Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, and Mother Teresa, the book profiles figures often working at the very nucleus of bitter conflicts. 100 photos.

Author Biography

Photographer Michael Collopy has gained recognition for his commissioned portraits of hundreds of public figures. His pictures have been published throughout the world in numerous books, magazines, and newspapers, as well as on many record and CD covers. In 1996, Collopy released Works of Love Are Works of Peace with the cooperation of Mother Teresa. This critically acclaimed fifteen-year photographic documentary profiled the work of her Missionaries of Charity. Michael and his wife, Alma (a photographer from Mexico City), live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their sons, Sean and Paul

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Foreword	p. 10
Dr. Maya Angelou	p. 14
Nelson Mandela	p. 16
Coretta Scott King	p. 18
Maya Lin	p. 20
David Brower	p. 22
General Lee Butler	p. 24
Mikhail Gorbachev	p. 27
Mother Teresa	p. 30
Marian Wright Edelman	p. 32
Sarah and James Brady	p. 34
Jose Ramos-Horta	p. 36
Arun Gandhi	p. 38
Cesar Chavez	p. 40
Thich Nhat Hanh	p. 42
Jean-Michel Cousteau	p. 44
Phil Lane Jr.	p. 46
Craig Kielburger	p. 48
Alice Walker	p. 50
Jehan Sadat	p. 53
Shimon Peres	p. 56
Elie Wiesel	p. 58
Steven Spielberg	p. 60
Reverend Jesse Jackson	p. 62
Joan Baez	p. 66
Ida Jackson	p. 68
Jane Goodall	p. 70
Oscar Arias Sanchez	p. 72
Muhammad Yunus	p. 74
Dr. Lorraine Hale	p. 78
Dr. C. Everett Koop	p. 81
Dr. David Ho	p. 84
Linus Pauling	p. 86
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger	p. 88
Jimmy Carter	p. 90
Nadja Halilbegovich	p. 92
Bianca Jagger	p. 94
Dr. Mahbub ul-Haq	p. 96
General Colin Powell	p. 98
Rigoberta Menchu Tum	p. 100
Ingrid Washinawatok el-Issa	p. 102
Theo Colburn	p. 104
Geoffrey Canada	p. 106
Hafsat Abiola	p. 108
Reverend Benjamin Weir	p. 110
Wei Jingsheng	p. 112
Archbishop Desmond Tutu	p. 114
Mairead Corrigan Maguire	p. 118
Leah Rabin	p. 120
Yael Dayan	p. 122
Reverend Billy Graham	p. 124
His Holiness Pope John Paul II	p. 126
Lech Walesa	p. 130
Richard Leakey	p. 132
R. E. Turner	p. 134
Carlos Santana	p. 136
Harry Belafonte	p. 138
Andrew Young	p. 140
Sister Helen Prjean	p. 142
Harry Wu	p. 144
F. W. de Klerk	p. 146
Benazir Bhutto	p. 148
Margaret Thatcher	p. 150
Bella Abzug	p. 152
Ron Kovic	p. 154
Dith Pran	p. 156
Jody Williams	p. 158
Her Majesty Queen Noor al-Hussein	p. 161
Mahnaz Afkhami	p. 164
Dr. Helen Caldicott	p. 166
Chief Leonard George	p. 168
Paul Hawken	p. 170
Robert Redford	p. 172
His Holiness the Dalai Lama	p. 174
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.	p. 176
Biographies	p. 179
Acknowledgments	p. 189
Permissions Acknowledgments	p. 191
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