Paul Walker (political scientist)

Paul F. Walker (born April 28, 1946 ) is an American political scientist and activist against chemical weapons . In 2013 he received the Right Livelihood Award for his work .

Career

After serving in the Vietnam War until 1971 , Walker studied political science and international relations and completed an internship with the American disarmament agency ACDA (Arms Control and Disarmament Agency). He has published several books on war prevention and disarmament since the 1970s . He became a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists , where he campaigned in particular for nuclear disarmament and nuclear weapons control. From 1986 to 1993 he was Vice Director of the Institute for Peace and International Security in Cambridge (Massachusetts) . He then worked as a disarmament inspector and organized financial and technical assistance in the destruction of chemical weapons stocks in the former Soviet Union .

In 1995 he became director of Global Green USA, the US division of the International Green Cross founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993 . There he campaigns for the worldwide implementation of the United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention .

Right Livelihood Award

According Right Livelihood Award Foundation Paul F. Walker has been involved through its work proved to the safe destruction of more than 55,000 tons of chemical weapons from six different national arsenals, and more than one billion dollars for programs to control, disarmament, security and non-proliferation of such Weapons procured. He has fought with governments, non-governmental organizations , think tanks and citizens' groups worldwide for the full implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and for a world free of chemical weapons. For this he received the Right Livelihood Award on December 2, 2013 in Stockholm .

literature

• Paul Walker , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/2013 from November 5, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Portrait at rightlivelihoodaward.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Right Livelihood Award Foundation: Right Livelihood Award - Laureates 2013 - Paul Walker. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; Retrieved December 3, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.