[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 155 (Saturday, September 27, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2049-E2050]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN HONOR OF DR. SCOTT KENNEDY

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 25, 2008

  Mr. FARR. Madam Speaker, I am proud today to rise to pay tribute to 
Dr. Scott Kennedy, a former mayor of Santa Cruz, CA. Dr. Kennedy has 
been named the 2008 recipient of the El-Hibri Charitable Peace 
Education Prize--which rightly recognizes his tireless, selfless and 
fearless promotion of peace and social justice in the Middle East and 
around the world.
  It is with great pleasure that I call attention to Dr. Scott 
Kennedy's work to bring peace to the world over the course of his 
lifetime. He has been a Peace Educator for 40 years and was 
instrumental in pioneering educational delegations to conflict zones, 
now a widely practiced form of peace education. Scott has personally 
led more than three dozen delegations to the Middle East since 1979. He 
also helped establish Witness for Peace, which brought thousands of 
U.S. citizens to Nicaragua on short educational delegations.
  Scott Kennedy co-founded the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa 
Cruz, CA, which is one of the most active community-based peace 
education centers in the Nation. The Center has been host to world-
renowned international speakers, workshops, and programs focusing on 
the need for peaceful and just resolution of conflicts both locally and

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globally, and I have been privileged to be a participant in these 
activities.
  Scott has actively served on the board of many organizations that 
teach and exemplify peace and empowerment, including the Fellowship of 
Reconciliation, Middle East Witness, Refuser Solidarity Network, Middle 
East Advisory Committee of the American Friends Service Committee, Isla 
Vista Youth Project, Thomas Merton Unity (Nonviolence) Center, the Isla 
Vista People's Life Fund, California Youth Advocate Program, National 
Youth Advocate Program, and the Interfaith Peace-Builders.
  Madam Speaker, true men of peace grace generations and, in my 
lifetime, I have witnessed Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and 
Nelson Mandela. I am proud to commend Scott Kennedy as a true man of 
peace, and I am proud to call him my friend.

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