Living Peace Series Brings Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee
NEW UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL CAMPUS NEWSLETTER – Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Leymah Gbowee, shared her experience as a peace activist last Tuesday to a sold-out Pacific Ballroom as part of the “Living Peace Speaker Series” hosted by the Center for Living Peace in partnership with UC Irvine.
The Center for Citizen Peacebuilding also co-hosted the event and presented Gbowee with the Citizen Peacebuilding Award for fostering and creating dialogue about peace.
Whiting: Philanthropist creates a ‘living peace’
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER – Just when the founder of both a building and a mindset called the Center for Living Peace starts to soar into esoteric territory, Kelly Thornton Smith describes her mission in very down-to-earth terms.
This single mother of two teenagers explains her center – built on a belief that “good happens” – is a place for children and adults to connect with people from different backgrounds. It’s also meant to inspire people to make a difference.
Interview with Kelly Thornton Smith
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER – Turn on Fox News or CNN and you might think that humans are not very interested in peace. However, if you visit Irvine’s Center for Living Peace, or speak with its brainchild and founder, philanthropist and mom Kelly Thornton Smith, you might change your mind.
“I think deep down, everyone wants peace,” she says. But peace might mean different things in different parts of the world, she says.