Source: Clareen O'Connor, clareen@k-state.edu

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

PEACE ADVOCATE PETER FALKENBERG BROWN TO DISCUSS HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE IN APRIL 13 LECTURE

MANHATTAN -- How to work for world peace will be the topic when Peter Falkenberg Brown lectures at Kansas State University.

Brown will present "Love, Democracy and the Survival of the World: How Each Individual Can Make a Difference" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, in Forum Hall at the K-State Student Union. The lecture is sponsored by K-State's Ambassadors for Peace Club and the Student Governing Association. It's free and open to the public.

From Portland, Maine, Brown is an author, columnist, publisher and public speaker. He and his wife are founders and editors of Significato Journal, an online magazine with a theme of "nectar for the soul."

His work toward world peace includes organizing the ecumenical ministers conference, Guyana and the World of True Peace, in 1990 in the South American nation. He is a former regional director of the Ambassadors for Peace initiative in the Washington, D.C., region, and the former executive director of the American Freedom Coalition in Virginia.