Research Fellow, Kroc Institute; President, Fourth Freedom Forum, Goshen, Indiana

(Notre Dame)
305 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

(Goshen)
Fourth Freedom Forum
803 North Main Street
Goshen, Indiana 46528-2632

Phone: (574) 631-8536 (Notre Dame)
(574) 534-3402 (Goshen)
Fax: (574) 631-6973 (Notre Dame)
(574) 534-4937 (Goshen)

Email:dcortright@fourthfreedom.org

David Cortright is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana, and a research fellow at the Kroc Institute. He has served as consultant or adviser to various 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. Along with George A. Lopez, he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.

His most recent books include Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence in an Age of Terrorism (Paradigm, 2006), a new edition of Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War (Haymarket Books, 2005), and A Peaceful Superpower: The Movement Against War in Iraq (2004), and two volumes released in 2002: Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft, and Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action, both with George A. Lopez. His other books include: The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s (2000), with George A. Lopez; The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention (1997); and Peace Works: The Citizen's Role in Ending the Cold War (1993).

He has co-authored various policy reports, including Toward a More Secure America: Grounding U.S. Policy in Global Realities (November 2003); Unproven: The Controversy over Justifying War in Iraq (June 2003); Sanctions, Inspections, and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq (June 2002); Winning Without War: Sensible Security Options for Dealing with Iraq (October 2002); and Smart Sanctions: Restructuring UN Policy in Iraq (April 2001), as well as numerous articles in scholarly and popular journals.

Recent Publications by David Cortright

Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism, Paradigm Publishers, 2006

"Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked," Foreign Affairs 83, no. 4 (July/August 2004): 114.

"Civil Society: The Other Superpower," Disarmament Diplomacy (March/April 2004): 4042.

"'War on Terror' or Real Security," with George Lopez, Sojourners (January 2004): 3134.

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