Her most recent book is A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada
and Nonviolent Resistance (Nation Books, 2007). In 1988, she won a Robert
F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award for Freedom Song: A Personal Story of
the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (William Morrow, 1987). In 2002, New
Delhi’s Indian Council for Cultural Relations released the second edition of
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr: The Power of Nonviolent
Action, which chronicles nine contemporary nonviolent struggles, originally
published by UNESCO in 1999. Her work has taken her to more than 120
developing countries.
As a presidential appointee in the Carter administration, King had worldwide
oversight for the Peace Corps and other U.S. volunteer service corps programs.
In the U.S. civil rights movement, she worked alongside the Reverend Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. (no relation) in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
an experience which defined her life. She is co-author of “Sex and Caste” with
Casey Hayden, a 1966 article now viewed by historians as tinder for the second
wave of feminism. King’s doctorate in international politics is from the University
of Wales at Aberystwyth. In 1989, her alma mater Ohio Wesleyan University
honored her with its highest award, and in 2003 she received the Jamnalal Bajaj
International Prize for the promotion of Gandhian values.
and Nonviolent Resistance (Nation Books, 2007). In 1988, she won a Robert
F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award for Freedom Song: A Personal Story of
the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (William Morrow, 1987). In 2002, New
Delhi’s Indian Council for Cultural Relations released the second edition of
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr: The Power of Nonviolent
Action, which chronicles nine contemporary nonviolent struggles, originally
published by UNESCO in 1999. Her work has taken her to more than 120
developing countries.
As a presidential appointee in the Carter administration, King had worldwide
oversight for the Peace Corps and other U.S. volunteer service corps programs.
In the U.S. civil rights movement, she worked alongside the Reverend Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. (no relation) in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
an experience which defined her life. She is co-author of “Sex and Caste” with
Casey Hayden, a 1966 article now viewed by historians as tinder for the second
wave of feminism. King’s doctorate in international politics is from the University
of Wales at Aberystwyth. In 1989, her alma mater Ohio Wesleyan University
honored her with its highest award, and in 2003 she received the Jamnalal Bajaj
International Prize for the promotion of Gandhian values.
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Biography
Mary Elizabeth King is professor of peace and conflict
studies at the UN-affiliated University for Peace, and
distinguished scholar with the American University’s Center
for Global Peace, in Washington, DC. She is senior
associate fellow at Oxford University’s Rothermere
American Institute, in Britain.
Mary Elizabeth King is professor of peace and conflict
studies at the UN-affiliated University for Peace, and
distinguished scholar with the American University’s Center
for Global Peace, in Washington, DC. She is senior
associate fellow at Oxford University’s Rothermere
American Institute, in Britain.
