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Looking For Square Two
To a Better and Safer World

Synopsis

Looking For Square Two is an insightful, thought-provoking foray into the controversial subject of nuclear disarmament by longtime lecturer and peace activist Douglas Mattern. This intellectual study covers the social, political, and economic ramifications of nuclear warfare and offers some achievable solutions to many frighteningly real conundrums. Mattern offers a point of view that is refreshingly straightforward and human – a realistic answer to today’s convoluted political atmosphere.

Author Biography

Douglas Mattern

Served as president or chairperson of several peace-related organizations over a 40-year period. This includes the Association of World Citizens, which is a 30-year old international organization with NGO status at the United Nations.

During this same period worked full-time as a senior engineer/manager in commercial Silicon Valley corporations, with the longest period at Apple Computer. Main activity was designing, equipping, and managing failure analysis/technology assessment laboratories. Specialized in transmission and scanning electron microscopy and won several scientific photography prizes, including a national scientific convention first prize photograph that was exhibited in the New York Museum of Modern Art for three months.

Author of over 200 published articles on peace-related issues. Main author of two disarmament resolutions signed by 51 Nobel Laureates and accepted by the United Nations Disarmament Department. Main author of the 2001 Taipei Peace Declaration signed by over 400,000 people and presented to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Chairperson of nine peace conferences or commissions held in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, and at the United Nations NGO conference. Hosted over 300-radio shows broadcast over Radio for Peace International.

Traveled widely on peace-related activities, including six Citizen Diplomacy trips to the Soviet Union in the 1980’s as a speaker on the Volga Peace Cruises. Initiated the joint U.S./USSR nuclear disarmament demonstration and rally held in 1983 in Moscow’s Gorky Park.

Wrote and presented World Citizen Awards to former United Nations Assistant-Secretary-General Robert Muller, The Reverend Jesse Jackson, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr., and Colonel Stanislav Petrov that has resulted in a movie being made of his life that is entitled: The Man Who Saved the World. The movie will be released to movie theaters around November 2006.

Recipient of the Albert Einstein Peace Award from the International Association of Educators for World Peace, the Lifetime Achievement Peace Award from the Federation of World Peace and Love, and several other peace awards.

Married 40 years, Mr. Mattern was educated at San Jose City College, San Jose State University, and Stanford University.