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Nicholas Dunlop 
Occupation activist, lecturer, democrat, peace activist, nuclear disarmament Nicholas Dunlop is Co-Founder and Secretary-General of the e-Parliament and founding member of the World Future Council.
Work
Nicholas Dunlop is co-founder and Secretary-General of the e-Parliament, an initiative to link up the world's democratic members of parliaments and congresses into a global forum. He was previously Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action. In 1984, he coordinated the launching of the Six Nation Peace Initiative, bringing together a group of heads of government to work on nuclear weapons issues. In 1987 he was a co-recipient of the first Indira Gandhi Peace Prize. More recently, he was Executive Director of EarthAction, a global network of more than 2,000 citizen groups in 160 countries, working together to generate political will to solve global problems. Working with celebrities such as the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the rock band Crosby, Stills and Nash, Dunlop has helped to increase public attention to major problems such as climate change and desertification. He has also served as a Consultant to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme on relations with national parliaments. Educated in Singapore, India and New Zealand, Nicholas Dunlop is a citizen of Ireland and New Zealand, and is based England.
He designed and launched the Six Nation Peace Initiative, which brought together the Presidents and Prime Ministers of Argentina, Greece, India, Mexico, Sweden and Tanzania in a group to work on nuclear disarmament.[1]
In spring 2007, he was elected as a council member of the World Future Council, an organization founded by Jakob von Uexkull and Herbert Girardet.
References
- ^ http://www.e-parl.net/eparliament/general.do?action=general&id=143 Homepage e-Parliament
External links
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