Register or Login

Support

Ask your question

Search

Visual Collection

Popular Questions

Most active users

  • Thai sean 960 posts | member since Nov 11, 2007
  • thedoc 1281 posts | member since Sep 10, 2006
  • April 830 posts | member since Apr 14, 2008
  • parabole 21 posts | member since Feb 8, 2010
  • Galactus 13 posts | member since Feb 8, 2010

Films

Profile of Jonathan Granoff

  • Username Jonathan Granoff
  • Activity Author, Attorney, Peace Activist, President of the Global Security Institute

Registered Sep 10, 2006 9:24:59 PM

100 messages posted:
0 questions / 100 answers / 0 comments

Jonathan Granoff Jonathan Granoff is an author, attorney, and international peace activist. Granoff life's work is dedicated to the total elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide. To that end, he is the current president of the Global Security Institute. He also serves as the Senior Advisor of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and National Security, and is Co-chair of its Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nuclear Nonproliferation.

Granoff holds positions on numerous governing and advisory boards including the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, the Jane Goodall Institute, the Bipartisan Security Group, and the Middle Powers Initiative.

  Granoff has lectured worldwide emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development, peace and security, with a specific focus on the threat posed by nuclear weapons. He is an award winning screenwriter and has been featured in more than 50 publications. Granoff earned his BA cum laude from Vassar College and his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law.

Granoff has studied with the Sufi Master Bawa Muhaiyaddeen since his youth and is honored by receiving his namesake, Ahamed Muhaiyaddeen. Firmly committed to advancing interfaith understanding and cooperation, he has worked extensively for the UN Millennium Peace Summit of Religious Leaders and the Temple of Understanding, and participated actively with the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions, the United Religions Initiative and the Interfaith Center of New York.  Granoff feels privileged to represent the International Peace Bureau at the Seventh Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in Gwangju, 2006.