Executive Board Members.
 

Elie Wiesel, Honorary Chairman of the Board: Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Laureate, and master teacher, he is known for his passion for peace and his concern for memory as a humanizing force. In his many artistic and philosophical works, he has pointed to the tragic syndromes whereby the memory of pain legitimates future bloodshed.

Hillel Levine, President: Professor of sociology and religion at Harvard, Yale, and now Boston University, and visiting professor at many foreign universities, he helped facilitate the first workshops between Israelis and Palestinians organized at Harvard in the early 1970s. He has since conducted research and written books and articles on ethnic and religious conflict. In 1989, he was first sent by the US Department of State as a consultant to China and Japan. He continues that work in those countries as well as South Korea, Cambodia, and India.

Claire Gaudiani, Executive Chairman of the Board: Professor at the George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Dr. Gaudiani also served for 13 years as President of Connecticut College.

Emmanuel Tchividjian, Treasurer: Senior Vice President of Ruder Finn, the leading public service oriented public relations firm in the world. He specializes in ethical problems in advertisement and public relations.

Ken Brown: Lawyer, real estate developer, and entrepreneur, he divides his time between New York and Southeast Asia. He is former president of the NewYork Division of the American Jewish Committee and serves on its National Board.

Wilder Knight: Lawyer and international media expert. He is particularly active in Germany and concerned with education about World War II, the media representation of its different facets, and the institutions that support this.

Thomas L. McNaugher: Graduate of West Point, Harvard PhD, Vice President for Army Studies at the RAND Corporation, and former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, he writes about military strategy, civil-military relations, and regional security issues.

Dinah PoKempner: A specialist in international humanitarian and human rights law, and an area specialist on Cambodia, she is the General Counsel for Human Rights Watch.

Henry Rosovsky: Often spoken of as the most distinguished educational planner and administrator of the second part of the 20th century, he is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Harvard University and an economist who specializes on Japan and East Asia.

Don Shriver: One of the outstanding Christian theologians with propensities to apply his thinking to social conflict and international affairs, he has produced important studies of forgiveness and assessments of the South African Truth and Reconciliation. He is a former President of and Professor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary.
Advisory Board Members.
 
Yosef Abramowitz: Writer, entrepreneur, and human rights activist, he is founder, president and CEO of JF&L, a web based network of 18 Jewish educational media, and runs an NGO that monitors human rights violations in the FSU.

David Arnow: A clinical psychologist, writer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and community organizer, he also brings vast experience with conflict resolution efforts in the Middle East, as a former president of the New Israel Fund.

Jerry Benjamin: The President of AB Data & Survey Research, he is an expert on polling and public opinion and has served as a political consultant to major electoral campaigns in the U.S. as well as the Middle East. Through his foundation, he has supported and implemented conflict resolution projects.

Maya Cohen: The founding president of WIZO in the USA, she has been active in identifying needs and conceptualizing, organizing and funding philanthropic projects in Europe, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and the USA.

Reuven Gal: A world expert on the social psychology of stress, trauma and memory, he applies his special skills to a variety of conflict resolution and prevention situations and trains professionals and interns in war torn areas such as the Middle East, the Balkans, and Northern Ireland.

Ralph Goldman: Dean of communal workers and public affairs administrators in the USA, the Middle East, and the FSU, he is honorary executive vice president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and has been active in developing Israeli-Palestinian cooperation.

Lela Goren: Lawyer and public administrator, she works for the United Nations and is active in Israeli-Arab rapprochement through memory-based conflict resolution projects and community service organizations.

David Hamburg: Prominent medical researcher, advisor to presidents, and public policy expert, he has written and organized major studies of preventing deadly international conflict and lessons to be learned from Cambodia. He has been a professor at Harvard and Stanford, president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and serves as president emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation.

Thomas Peckham: Senior Partner at Bingham McCutchen, he has been the ICfC's pro bono Legal Counsel and devoted advisor.

Walter Reich: Professor of International Affairs, Ethics, and Human Behavior at The George Washington University, he wrote one of the earliest and most empathetic studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has served as the Director of the US Holocaust Museum in Washington.

Daniel Rose: A real estate developer renowned for his community leadership and strategic philanthropy, he has performed uniquely successful work on ethnicity and education and serves on advisory boards of major international agencies.

Peggy Shriver: Poet and writer, she served for many years as an officer of the National Council of Churches and worked on international mediation.

Dick Simon: Co-Founder of the YPO Peace Action Network, Chair of the 2002 Global Video Forum, and CEO of RSI, a real estate development and investment management company. He now devotes most of his time to the efforts of the Peace Action Network and related activities.

Kevork Toroyan: An Armenian of Lebanese decent, he has worked on real estate development around the Arab world. He has lived through different facets of the Israeli-Arab conflict and is deeply committed to its resolution and to reconciliation among all people in the Middle East.
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