SOLD OUT: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope: A Conversation with President Jimmy Carter, featuring World Affairs Council World Citizen and World Educator Awards

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"Ultimately, the work of The Carter Center is about helping people achieve better opportunities and watching hope take root where it languished before." - Jimmy Carter

Many of today’s most pressing global issues— energy, the Middle East, and global health concerns—define President Carter’s place in presidential history and continue to shape his influential role as a global leader and elder. 

• Global economy: President Carter worked hard to combat domestic inflation and unemployment at a time when global oil prices had reached record highs and to enhance energy security through conservation and alternative energy sources.

• Foreign policy: President Carter placed human rights at the center of his foreign policy and has continued to play a pivotal role in advancing global human rights standards during his post-presidency. The foreign policy issues of his time in the White House—peace in the Middle East, sovereignty in Afghanistan, relations with Moscow—echo in current day foreign policy challenges faced by President Obama.

• Global health: Through the work of The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, President Carter has made the eradication of Guinea worm disease, river blindness, malaria, and other diseases a priority.  President Carter has traveled with former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Bill Gates, Sr. on a journey through Africa to see firsthand the impact of HIV/AIDS.

• Diplomacy & conflict resolution: Representing The Carter Center, President Carter has served as a lead diplomat in negotiations with North Korea, Middle Eastern nations, various African countries, and Haiti and other countries in the Americas. His family has a long history with a leading citizen diplomacy initiative, the Peace Corps, starting with President Carter’s mother serving at age 70 in India and his grandson serving in South Africa.  

Through The Carter Center and his books, President Carter challenges us to think about our place in the world and the role that citizen diplomacy plays in building peace globally. On January 31, the World Affairs Council, in celebration of its 60th Anniversary, invites greater Seattle to participate in a conversation with President Jimmy Carter; the evening will include discussion on the work of The Carter Center and some of the world’s most pressing, yet solvable problems.

To find out more about the World Affairs Council's 60th Anniversary celebration, please visit http://www.world-affairs.org/at60.

About President Carter
Jimmy Carter served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977-1981. On Dec.10, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize to President Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development," and in 2006, The Carter Center received the Gates Award for Global Health.  President Carter is the author of 23 books.

About The Carter Center
The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University to advance peace and health worldwide. A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, the Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 70 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; and improving mental health care. It has spearheaded the international effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease and has observed 86 elections in 35 countries since 1989. 
 

Also featured at this event will be our 2011 World Citizen Award and 2011 World Educator Award, both of which recognize Washingtonians who have contributed significantly to public understanding of international relations, community involvement in world affairs, and local understanding of cultures, societies and economies from around the world. This year, Julia Bolz will be recognized as the World Citizen for her outstanding leadership in working to provide education for young girls in Afghanistan and, in the process, engaging and educating Washingtonians and citizens across the United States about the impact of investing in education of girls in Afghanistan. Lisa Clarke, a Curriculum Leader and Social Studies Head at Kent-Meridian High School, will receive the World Educator Award for her significant contributions to promoting international understanding in the classroom, her commitment to connecting students to global service learning opportunities outside of the classroom, and her statewide  leadership in advancing international social studies learning through the development of new resources, curriculum, and administrative structures for the benefit of other educators.

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