Signers
of the Declaration of Human Unity
Partial list of some 600 thoughtful and distinguished humans from an unprecedented cross section of the world—Winter 2010 (Affiliations are listed for information and identification only)
Steve Allen (dec) – Author-humorist; Los Angeles, California Baba Amte –Founder, Knit India March; recipient of United Nations Human Rights Award (1988); Templeton Prize (1990); Gandhi Peace Prize (2000); Anandwan, India Mike S. Amachree – Chairman, Brooklyn Hotels;Lagos, Nigeria Oscar Arias Sánchez – Peace Nobelist (1988); President of Costa Rica Roman Arrieta Villalobos – Archbishop, San Jose, Costa Rica Charnjit Singh Atwal – Ex–Speaker, Punjab Legislative Assembly; Americ Azevedo – Businessman-philosopher; Director, Collaborative Intelligence Qutubuddin Aziz – Secretary General, Press Association of Pakistan Ben H. Bagdikian – Pulitzer Prize journalist; Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Ramkrishna Bajaj (dec.) – Industrialist and philanthropist, Jan Ballard – Financial analyst, organizational consultant; Sebastopol, California Giorgio F. Barabino – General Secretary, International Association of Robert F. Bellah – Author-sociologist, recipient of the National Humanities Medal; Abhay K. Bhushan – Business and social entrepreneur; Founder, Indians for Camille Bishop – Student leader, A Human Association; University of California, Kenneth Boulding (dec.) – Author-lecturer, Former President, Luba Brezhnev – Author-journalist; niece of Soviet Union's Willie L. Brown, Jr. – Former Mayor, San Francisco, California Herb Caen (dec.) – Pulitzer Prize columnist, San Francisco Chronicle Tom Campbell – Former U.S. Republican congressman, dean of the School of Rodrigo Carazo Odio – Founder, University for Peace; Former President, A. Lawrence Chickering – Author and public policy analyst, Institute for Norman Cousins (dec.)– Journalist, author and public policy analyst Walter Cronkite – Journalist, author and public speaker, New York City Jose B. Cuellar – Director, Cesar E. Chavez Institute for Public Policy, The Dalai Lama – Leader of Tibetan Buddhism; Peace Nobelist (1989) Sunil Dang – Director, Indian Newspaper Society; Editor-in Chief, DayAfter Ram Dass – Spiritual teacher and lecturer; San Anselmo, California Fred Drexler (dec.) – Former Chairman, Industrial Indemnity Company and Fang Lizhi – Astrophysicist; democracy and human rights leader; Arun Gandhi – Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi; Founder, M. K. Gandhi Institute for Allen Ginsberg (dec.) – Poet, New York City Ramnath Goenka (dec.) – Chairman, Indian Express Group; William C. Gough – Founder, Foundation for Mind-Being Research, Dick Gregory – Author-humorist and human rights activist; Plymouth, Massachusetts Edgar Guevara – Composer and environmentalist, San Francisco, California Eugene Haggerty – Founder, World Public Forum; Human Unity Project Willis W. Harman (dec.) – Author-lecturer; Former President, Institute of Jean Houston – Founder, Mystery School; Pomona, New York Hitoshi Ikezaki – Business consultant; Tokyo, Japan Balram Jakhar – Ex–Speaker, Lok Sabha (India) Nandlal Jotwani – Founder, Global Harmony, New Delhi, India Bill Joy – Venture capitalist (partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers); Netty Kahan – Editor; Novato, California Inamullah Khan (dec.) – Former President, World Conference, Richard Leakey – Anthropologist and environmentalist, author-lecturer; Audrey Lin – President, A Human Association; student leader, Seymour Martin Lipset – Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Stanford, California Liu Binyan – Publisher, China Focus; Princeton, New Jersey Thomas Keng Lu – Former Journalist; The People, Hong Kong Mochtar Lubis – Journalist-author; Director General, Press Foundation of Asia; Shirley MacLaine – Actress and author; Malibu, California Mairead Maguire – Peace Nobelist (1976; Co-Founder, Commumity Bill Maher – Humorist and TV personality; Los Angeles, California Sister Mary-Michael – Prioress, Order of Agape and Reconciliation; Avon Mattison – President, Pathways to Peace; International Secretariat of Marisa de los Andes – Poet and community leader, Quito, Ecuador Ali A. Mazrui – Writer-producer, host of television series The Africans; Robert McDermott – Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, New York University; Manorama Mohapatra – Editor, Samaj, Cuttack, India Ashley Montagu (dec.) – Author, lecturer, anthropologist and educator; Robert Muller – Former Assistant Secretary General and "Philosopher" of the UN; Walter Munoz Cespedes – Peace Nobelist (1985) with International Physicians N. N. Murthy – Journalist; Secretary and Executive Director, Michael Nagler – Author: Is There No Other Way?; Professor and Founder, Seyyed Hossein Nasr – University Professor of Islamic Studies, Mazlan Nordin – Chairman, Malaysian National News Agency; Yuri Orlov – Author and human rights leader, Ithaca, New York Nani A. Palkhivala (dec.) – Former Arnbassador to the United States; Satya Paul – General Secretary, Servants of People Society, New Delhi, India William H. Pemberton (dec.) – Author-lecturer; psychologist and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar – Former Secretary General, United Nations Jose Ramos-Horta – Peace Nobelist (1996); President, East Timor Abdul Shakoor Rana – President, South Asian Fraternity, Lahore, Pakistan Norodom Ranariddh – Former Co-Premier of Cambodia; son of Swami Ranganathananda (dec.) – Author and public speaker; Indira Gandhi Carl Reich – retired journalist, San Francisco Examiner; Novato, California Debbie Reynolds – Actress, North Hollywood, California Peter Russell – Futurist, author and lecturer; consultant Ravi Shankar – Composer, sitar virtuoso; Member of Parliament, India Giani Zail Singh (dec.) – Former President of India Karan Singh – Former Indian Ambassador to the United States and Sulak Sivaraksa – Founder, Santi Pracha Dharnma Institute; Huston Smith – Author-lecturer on world religions; Berkeley, California Lily Sun – Founder, Sun Yat-sen Foundation; Honolulu, Hawaii J.R.D. Tata (dec.) – Founder, Tata Sons Limited; Tenzin N. Tethong – Lecturer on Tibetan Culture; Executive Director, Vimala Thakar – International lecturer and author on spirituality and philosophy; Robert Thurman – Author and lecturer; Professor, Buddhist Studies, Desmond M. Tutu – Peace Nobelist (1984); Anglican Archbishop Emeritus John Vasconcellos – Former California State Senator and founder of Frances Vaughan – Author, psychologist; Betty Williams – Founder, World Centers of Compassion for Children; Robin Williams – Actor, comedian; San Francisco, California Marianne Williamson – Author and speaker on spirituality Stevie Wonder – humanitarian, singer and songwriter; Los Angeles, California Andrew Young – Former ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of *California 501(c)(3), tax-deductible, public benefit association |