Center for War/Peace Studies
The Center for War/Peace Studies, a non-profit, tax-exempt U.S. organization incorporated in 1977, is a “think tank” located in the United Nations backyard. The central objective of the CW/PS is to establish an international political and legal system that will make possible the abolition of war. Working on the premise that the present international decision-making system is obsolete, the CW/PS has developed the Binding Triad System for global decision-making. Under the Binding Triad concept, the U.N. General Assembly would be transformed from a powerless “Town Meeting of the World” into a genuine global legislature. Its decisions would require majorities on three “legs,” based on the present one-nation-one-vote arrangement, population, and contributions to the regular U.N. budget, which are a rough measure of GNP.
Executive Director
Lucy Law Webster lucywebster@lvistas.net
Former U.N. Political Affairs Officer; Board Member, Economists for Peace and Security www.epsusa.org; Council Vice Chair, World Federalist Movement www.wfm.org and also please see www.lvistas.net.
Director of Programs
Dr. Juan Federer E-mail: federer@cwps.org
Dr. Juan Federer is a recognized expert on the problems of fragile states. He is currently addressing this issue in Africa and specifically in the Côte d’Ivoire where he and colleagues from West Africa are discussing a strategy for greater democracy in Côte d’Ivoire with members of the UN Security Council. He is also the author of “The UN in East Timor: Building Timor Leste, a Fragile State” (Charles Darwin University Press, Australia, 2005), available at www.cdu.edu.au/cdupress/books/un-easttimor-jfederer.html
Peace, Environment Network
Dr. E. Scott Ryan, Director
Board Chair
Hamilton Kean
Attorney and trustee, who is an Honorary Trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Chair of the World Federalist Endowment Fund and a member of the Executive Committee of Citizens for Global Solutions and its Education Fund.
Vice Chair
Myron W. Kronisch
Counsel to the Board, World Federalist Association (now Citizens for Global Solutions).
Secretary-Treasurer
Francis M. Ssekandi
Retired General Counsel of the African Development Bank and former Deputy Director of the General Legal Division, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs; now Attorney at Law and Counselor, IPM Associates, LLC.
Assistant Treasurer
Naushard Cader
Chartered accountant and business consultant with several years experience in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States.
Directors at Large
Arlene Bassett, President, The Santangelo Group.
Jim Bernet, Founder, Unite the United Nations.
Dr. Karl Fossum, Psychiatrist, active member of Citizens for Global Solutions and the Rainforest Alliance.
S. Azmat Hassan, Former Deputy Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the U.N. at New York, currently professor of International Relations at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.
Modeste G. Seri, Banker and financial and political analyst who is the founder and leader of the D.J.CI—Diaspora et Jeunesse de Côte d’Ivoire, and the CUP-CI—Citizens for Unity and Peace in Côte d’Ivoire, which have published a Peace Plan to lay the foundations for sustainable peace in the Ivory Coast.
Mrs. James P. Warburg (Joan M. Warburg,) President of the Bydale Foundation.