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Jim Stark was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1943. He graduated from Laurentian University in 1967. In 1977, he founded Operation Dismantle, a national nuclear disarmament organization, where he served as president and CEO until 1985 (see Cold War Blues or The Canadian Encyclopedia). With his wife, Earleen Devine, he owns a small business 
Earleen Devine was born in Shawville, Quebec, Canada in 1953. She received her Honours BA in Art History and Criticism from the University of Western Ontario in 1981. In addition to working in Life Profiles, Earleen has completed two of her own books (one fiction, one non-fiction), and is currently working on a new novel. Her primary responsibility in Vote World Government is that of researcher. Earleen is the mother of a daughter, Thea, and a son, Martin, and lives in a small Quebec town with her husband Jim. 
Duskar Barik was born in 1962 in Orissa, India. He has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Political Science. He was one of the best National Service Scheme (NSS) Volunteers during his academic career. Soon after graduation he joined in a voluntary organisation and worked for the development of poor Adivasis (Tribal). He was a faculty member in a national level training institute called SEARCH in Bangalore for four years. Currently he is Chief Functionary in an NGO called "Keonjhar Integrated Rural Development & Training Institute" (KIRDTI), based in Orissa State.
Dr. Weiss is currently the Associate Director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard University. He received his PhD from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University in 2002. Dr. Weiss has spoken and published on negotiation, mediation, and systemic approaches to dealing with conflict. In his current capacity he conducts research, consults with many different types of organizations, teaches courses on Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Management and Resolution, and practices the art and science of negotiation at the interstate, intrastate, and organizational levels. 
Chris Hamer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1944. He obtained his BSc and MSc from the University of Melbourne, and his PhD from Caltech in 1972. He is now an Associate Professor in theoretical physics at the University of New South Wales. In the 1980s he was involved with Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (SANA), and was National Secretary 1989-92. He teaches a general studies course on Nuclear Arms and the New World Order at UNSW, and has written a book on world federalism entitled A Global Parliament: Principles of World Federation. He is currently President of the World Citizens Association (Australia), dedicated to promoting the ideals of democratic world government and world federalism. 
Raj Shekhar Chandola graduated from Delhi University (Honours History with Philosophy as a Subsidiary Subject), and did his post-grad work at Lucknow University (Journalism and Mass Communication). He worked in an advertising agency, a detective agency, a market survey agency, a film magazine and a city magazine before joining the City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow as a peace educator. CMS received the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in 2002, and the Nuclear-Free Future Special Achievement Award in 2004. It is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as world’s largest school, with over 29,000 students. Raj serves there as Head of the World Unity and Peace Education Department (www.cmseducation.org/wuped), Coordinator of Indo-Pak Children’s Penfriends’ Club “Aao Dosti Karein” (Come Let’s be Friends), and Assistant Convener, International Conference of Chief Justices of the World and Global Symposium on New World Order.
Hugh Steadman was born in London in 1942. He entered the RMA Sandhurst in 1960 and joined a British infantry regiment in 1962. His service included time in Germany, peacekeeping in Cyprus and an attachment to the Sultan of Muscat’s armed forces (Oman), where he served as a Desert Intelligence Officer. In 1970, he resigned his commission and took a degree in politics and international relations at Southampton University. Hugh and his wife, Chris, took postgraduate degrees and then established a language training institute. In 1985, they emigrated with their three young children to New Zealand, where they established The Prenzel Distilling Company. Having retained his interest in Middle Eastern affairs, Hugh is now the NZ representative on the International Forum for Justice and Peace at The Hague. In 2005, he withdrew from Prenzel to devote his time to the establishment of the Sapiens Movement Inc., an NGO dedicated to achieving democratic world government.
Unity Elias Yang was born in 1974 in Oku, North West Province of Cameroon. He studied physics and computer sciences at the University of Buea, and later studied law in the University of Yaounde for two years. In 2002, he was accepted into the National School of Administration and Magistracy in Yaounde, where he obtained a diploma in financial and material management. He currently works as a stores accountant in the Ministry of Public Health, and Chief of Service for Studies, in the sub-department for the follow-up of land revenue in the Ministry of State Property in Yaounde. He is currently writing a book on a global state and a second book on the Third World, and he is continuing with his law studies at the university.
Ted Stalets was born in Pana, Illinois in 1952. He has a post-graduate degree in mass communications from the University of Illinois. From the time of his first Radio Shack TRS80 computer in the late 1970s, he has developed a deep respect for the evolving computer revolution, and more recently, the Internet revolution. An avid futurist, he was featured in a Nashville newspaper in 2005, in an interview focusing on his extensive collection of emerging technology domains and websites. Ted has built several hundred Internet websites dealing with emerging technologies (robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, virtual reality, etc.) geared for the non-technical person. He is serving as Vice-President of Vote World Government and as our president's agent through the Stalets Literary Agency. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Vanessa and their 16-year-old son, Christopher.
David
Christensen was born in Ashland, Wisconsin in 1921 and grew up in Illinois and
South Dakota. He attended college in Mankato, Minnesota, and after World War II
received Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago where, in 1946,
he and his wife, Carol, were active in World Republic, an organization seeking
world government. After thirteen years at Florida State University, Dave joined
the Geography Department of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 1961. He
served as Chair of the department and also as Assistant Dean and Associate Dean
of the College of Liberal Arts. He also served on Carbondale’s Planning
Commission for eighteen years, four years as chair. Dave is an ardent
internationalist and through the years he and his wife (now deceased)
researched, taught or traveled in sixteen countries. Dave’s avocations include
woodcarving, writing poetry and writing “letters to the editor.”
Dora
Szabo was born in Hungary in 1975. She got her MSc in economics / social policy
/ European studies from the Budapest University of Economics and worked in
management at several electronics manufacturing companies. She balances her
professional life with her desire to contribute to her community. She has
volunteered and worked for institutions for the visually impaired in Hungary and
abroad, and wrote her thesis on discrimination against disabled people. At
university, she also volunteered for Amnesty International and attended AI
conferences abroad. After resigning from her last job in business, she
volunteered for the World Unity and Peace Education Department at City
Montessori School in Lucknow, India, and participated in the first-ever school
mini-referendum on democratic world government. She loves to be outdoors hiking,
biking, canoeing and is a hobby photographer. She also practices yoga and has
become a member of a Japanese-based global peace prayer movement.
Jerry Tetalman is the co-author of One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law. He is the current California President of Citizens for Global Solutions, an organization dedicated to building peace, justice and freedom in a democratically governed world. He is also a co-founder of the World Democracy Movement, an organization dedicated to the formation of a global democracy. He first became politically active in high school, where he protested against the Vietnam War and registered for the draft as a conscientious objector. Jerry has a MA in Psychology and has been a successful businessman dedicated to the pursuit of social justice and the abolition of war.