Honoring a Lifelong Force for Peace

David Krieger co-founded the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) in 1982 and has served as its President for nearly four decades. He will be honored with the Foundation’s 2019 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award at the 36th Annual Evening For Peace. The event will be held at the Four Seasons Resort, The Biltmore on Sunday, October 20, 2019.
 
Daniel Ellsberg, NAPF Distinguished Fellow and author of the book, Doomsday Machine, will be the evening’s guest speaker and will present the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award to Krieger. Ellsberg is a former national security advisor who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971. In 2006, Ellsberg received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” “for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”
 
This year’s event will also include a rare opportunity to experience a live performance of Soka University of America’s Koto Club. The students will play the hauntingly beautiful Japanese koto wearing traditional Japanese kimonos for their performance.
 
The evening will celebrate David Krieger who is retiring at year’s end to become president emeritus of the Foundation. He has dedicated his life’s work to ending the nuclear age, lecturing throughout the world on issues of peace, war, international law and nuclear abolition.
 
Under Krieger’s leadership, he and the Foundation have been nominated ten times for the Nobel Peace Prize. He has written or co-authored twenty-six books. He is both a mentor and a respected colleague to countless people all over the world and has served as an advisor to many peace organizations. Krieger has been a steady voice in the struggle for peace and a nuclear weapon-free world. His stand against these weapons of mass annihilation has never wavered. It never will.
 
The Distinguished Peace Leadership Award is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated courageous leadership in the cause of peace. The Foundation has a rich history of honoring remarkable leaders. Past recipients include Beatrice Fihn, the XIVth Dalai Lama, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Walter Cronkite, Setsuko Thurlow, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and Medea Benjamin, to mention just a few.
 
The Evening For Peace raises much-needed funds to support the Foundation’s work for a world free of nuclear weapons and inspires the next generation of young leaders to work to toward achieving a more just and peaceful world. Many students from local colleges and high schools will attend this year’s event thanks to sponsors who have underwritten the cost of their tickets. 
 
This year, proceeds from the event will also fund the newly established David Krieger Fund For Peace. Created to honor David Krieger’s life’s work, the Fund will serve to ensure the future of the Foundation as it works to create a just and peaceful world, free of nuclear weapons.
 
The evening will begin at 5:00 p.m. with a reception followed by dinner and an award program. To learn more about the Evening For Peace, visit wagingpeace.org/2019-evening-for-peace or call the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation at 805.965.3443.

Founded in 1982, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s mission is to educate, advocate and inspire action for a peaceful world, free of nuclear weapons. The Foundation is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with consultative status to the United Nations and includes individuals and groups worldwide who realize the imperative for peace in the Nuclear Age. For more information, visit www.wagingpeace.org.

David Krieger, President

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation