Signers
of the
Declaration of Human Unity
Partial list of some 600 thoughtful and distinguished humans
from an unprecedented cross section of the world—Winter 2010
(Affiliations are listed for information and identification only)
J.R.D. Tata (1904-93)
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Lily Sui-fong Sun
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Former Chairman, Tata Sons Limited
(Among India's
Largest Business Conglomerates)
Famed Pioneer Indian Aviator,
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Granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen
"Father of Modern China"
President, Sun Yat-sen Foundation
for Peace and Education,
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Bombay (now Mumbai), India
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Honolulu, Hawaii
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Betty Williams |
Rodrigo Carazo |
Nobel Peace Laureate
(1976, with Maireid Maguire);
Founder, World Centers of
Compassion for Children, |
Former President of
Costa Rica
Founder, University for Peace;
World Ambassador for
Peace and Unity,
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Pensacola, Florida |
San Jose, Costa Rica |
Steve Allen (dec) – Author-humorist; Los Angeles, California
Baba Amte –Founder, Knit India March; recipient of United Nations Human Rights
Award (1988); Templeton Prize (1990); Gandhi Peace Prize (2000);
Anandwan, India
Mike S. Amachree – Chairman, Brooklyn Hotels;Lagos, Nigeria
Oscar Arias Sánchez – Peace Nobelist (1988); President of Costa Rica
Roman Arrieta Villalobos – Archbishop, San Jose, Costa Rica
Charnjit Singh Atwal – Ex–Speaker, Punjab Legislative Assembly;
Chandigarh, India
Americ Azevedo – Businessman-philosopher; Director, Collaborative Intelligence
Lab, University of California (Berkeley)
Qutubuddin Aziz – Secretary General, Press Association of Pakistan
Ben H. Bagdikian – Pulitzer Prize journalist; Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of
Journalism, University of California (Berkeley)
Ramkrishna Bajaj (dec.) – Industrialist and philanthropist,
Bombay (now Mumbai), India
Jan Ballard – Financial analyst, organizational consultant; Sebastopol, California
Giorgio F. Barabino – General Secretary, International Association of
Ayurveda and Naturopathy, Vigliano Biellese, Italy
Robert F. Bellah – Author-sociologist, recipient of the National Humanities Medal;
University of California (Berkeley)
Abhay K. Bhushan – Business and social entrepreneur; Founder, Indians for
Collective Action, Palo Alto, California
Camille Bishop – Student leader, A Human Association; University of California,
Berkeley, California
Larry Boggs – Editor; San Rafael, California
Kenneth Boulding (dec.) – Author-lecturer, Former President,
American Association for the Advancement of Science and
Distinguished Professor of Economics, Boulder, Colorado
Luba Brezhnev – Author-journalist; niece of Soviet Union's
Premier Leonid Brezhnev
Willie L. Brown, Jr. – Former Mayor, San Francisco, California
Herb Caen (dec.) – Pulitzer Prize columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
Tom Campbell – Former U.S. Republican congressman, dean of the School of
of Law (Stanford University), Haas School of Business (University of
California at Berkeley) and Finance Director, State of California
Rodrigo Carazo Odio – Founder, University for Peace; Former President,
Costa Rica
A. Lawrence Chickering – Author and public policy analyst, Institute for
Contemporary Studies, San Francisco, California
Norman Cousins (dec.)– Journalist, author and public policy analyst
Walter Cronkite – Journalist, author and public speaker, New York City
Jose B. Cuellar – Director, Cesar E. Chavez Institute for Public Policy,
San Francisco, California
The Dalai Lama – Leader of Tibetan Buddhism; Peace Nobelist (1989)
Sunil Dang – Director, Indian Newspaper Society; Editor-in Chief, DayAfter
(international news magazine), New Delhi, India
Pondurenga Das – Yoga teacher; writer; Berkeley, California
Ram Dass – Spiritual teacher and lecturer; San Anselmo, California
Fred Drexler (dec.) – Former Chairman, Industrial Indemnity Company and
Institute for Philosophical Research; San Francisco, California
Fang Lizhi – Astrophysicist; democracy and human rights leader;
University of Arizona; Tucson, Arizona
Bishop Theo E. Frazier – Chairman, Faith Based Coalition;
President, Business Men's Fellowship, San Francisco, California
Arun Gandhi – Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi; Founder, M. K. Gandhi Institute for
Nonviolence; Memphis, Tennessee
Allen Ginsberg (dec.) – Poet, New York City
Ramnath Goenka (dec.) – Chairman, Indian Express Group;
Bombay (now Mumbai), India
William C. Gough – Founder, Foundation for Mind-Being Research,
Los Altos, California
Dick Gregory – Author-humorist and human rights activist; Plymouth, Massachusetts
Edgar Guevara – Composer and environmentalist, San Francisco, California
Eugene Haggerty – Founder, World Public Forum; Human Unity Project
designer-coordinator, San Francisco, California
Willis W. Harman (dec.) – Author-lecturer; Former President, Institute of
Noetic Sciences, Sausalito, California
Jean Houston – Founder, Mystery School; Pomona, New York
Hitoshi Ikezaki – Business consultant; Tokyo, Japan
Balram Jakhar – Ex–Speaker, Lok Sabha (India)
Nandlal Jotwani – Founder, Global Harmony, New Delhi, India
Bill Joy – Venture capitalist (partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers);
co-founder and ex–chief scientist at Sun Microsystems; science writer,
Aspen, Colorado
Netty Kahan – Editor; Novato, California
Inamullah Khan (dec.) – Former President, World Conference,
Religion and Peace; Templeton Prize (1988); Karachi, Pakistan
Imam Medhi Khorasani – Fairfax, California
King Bishop (Dr. Eddie C. Welbon) – The Greater Mount Zion Spiritual Temple,
San Francisco Bay Area
Edward Langthorn – Retired prosecutor; compiler of Unity Field of Inquiry;
Walnut Creek, California
Richard Leakey – Anthropologist and environmentalist, author-lecturer;
Nairobi, Kenya
Audrey Lin – President, A Human Association; student leader,
University of California at Berkeley, California
Seymour Martin Lipset – Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Stanford, California
Liu Binyan – Publisher, China Focus; Princeton, New Jersey
Thomas Keng Lu – Former Journalist; The People, Hong Kong
Mochtar Lubis – Journalist-author; Director General, Press Foundation of Asia;
Jakarta, Indonesia
Shirley MacLaine – Actress and author; Malibu, California
Mairead Maguire – Peace Nobelist (1976; Co-Founder, Commumity
of Peace People, and a founder of The Nobel Women's Initiative,
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Bill Maher – Humorist and TV personality; Los Angeles, California
Sister Mary-Michael – Prioress, Order of Agape and Reconciliation;
Chemainus, British Columbia, Canada
Avon Mattison – President, Pathways to Peace; International Secretariat of
We the Peoples; Larkspur, California
Marisa de los Andes – Poet and community leader, Quito, Ecuador
Ali A. Mazrui – Writer-producer, host of television series The Africans;
Binghamton, New York
Robert McDermott – Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, New York University;
Former President, California Institute of Integral Studies,
San Francisco, California
Manorama Mohapatra – Editor, Samaj, Cuttack, India
Ashley Montagu (dec.) – Author, lecturer, anthropologist and educator;
Princeton, New Jersey
Robert Muller – Former Assistant Secretary General and "Philosopher" of the UN;
Former Chancellor, University for Peace, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
Walter Munoz Cespedes – Peace Nobelist (1985) with International Physicians
for Prevention of Nuclear War, San Jose, Costa Rica
N. N. Murthy – Journalist; Secretary and Executive Director,
International Benevolent Research Forum, Nagpur, India
Michael Nagler – Author: Is There No Other Way?; Professor and Founder,
Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California (Berkeley)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr – University Professor of Islamic Studies,
George Washington University; Washington DC
Mazlan Nordin – Chairman, Malaysian National News Agency;
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Yuri Orlov – Author and human rights leader, Ithaca, New York
Orobo Osagie – Africanist and Organizational Specialist;
PhD, International Area Studies, University of San Francisco (California)
Nani A. Palkhivala (dec.) – Former Arnbassador to the United States;
Bombay (now Mumbai), India
Satya Paul – General Secretary, Servants of People Society, New Delhi, India
William H. Pemberton (dec.) – Author-lecturer; psychologist and
general semanticist; Mill Valley, California
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar – Former Secretary General, United Nations
and Peruvian diplomat, Lima, Peru
Jose Ramos-Horta – Peace Nobelist (1996); President, East Timor
Abdul Shakoor Rana – President, South Asian Fraternity, Lahore, Pakistan
Norodom Ranariddh – Former Co-Premier of Cambodia; son of
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Swami Ranganathananda (dec.) – Author and public speaker; Indira Gandhi
Awardee for National Integration; Pres. Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad, India
Carl Reich – retired journalist, San Francisco Examiner; Novato, California
Debbie Reynolds – Actress, North Hollywood, California
Peter Russell – Futurist, author and lecturer; consultant
to international corporations; Sausalito, California
Ravi Shankar – Composer, sitar virtuoso; Member of Parliament, India
Giani Zail Singh (dec.) – Former President of India
Karan Singh – Former Indian Ambassador to the United States and
Maharajah of Kashmir
Sulak Sivaraksa – Founder, Santi Pracha Dharnma Institute;
Bangkok, Thailand
Huston Smith – Author-lecturer on world religions; Berkeley, California
Lily Sun – Founder, Sun Yat-sen Foundation; Honolulu, Hawaii
J.R.D. Tata (dec.) – Founder, Tata Sons Limited;
Bombay (now Mumbai), India
Tenzin N. Tethong – Lecturer on Tibetan Culture; Executive Director,
Survivors International; San Francisco, California
Vimala Thakar – International lecturer and author on spirituality and philosophy;
Mount Abu, India
Robert Thurman – Author and lecturer; Professor, Buddhist Studies,
Columbia University; President, Tibet House, New York City
Desmond M. Tutu – Peace Nobelist (1984); Anglican Archbishop Emeritus
and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of South Africa
John Vasconcellos – Former California State Senator and founder of
Self-esteem Movement, San Jose, California
Frances Vaughan – Author, psychologist;
Transpersonal Psychology Association; Mill Valley, California
Betty Williams – Founder, World Centers of Compassion for Children;
Peace Nobelist (1976); Pensacola, Florida
Robin Williams – Actor, comedian; San Francisco, California
Marianne Williamson – Author and speaker on spirituality
and relationships; Montecito, California
Stevie Wonder – humanitarian, singer and songwriter; Los Angeles, California
Andrew Young – Former ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of
Atlanta; a founder and chairman of Goodworks International; Atlanta, Georgia
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