A peace activist and lecturer for Maui Community College and the University of Hawaii Center on Maui has been recognized by three national organizations. Maui activist wins
national acclaim3 organizations laud peace advocate
and lecturer Joshua CooperStar-Bulletin staff
Joshua Cooper was named the W. Alton Jones Fellow by the Center on Violence and Human Survival for his research and teaching course Genocide, Racial Discrimination, Torture and Nuclear Process of Mass Destruction: Creating Nonviolent Responses to Human Rights Violations Through Conventions, Committees and Courts.
Cooper was also elected to the national board of directors for Peace Action, the largest grass-roots peace and disarmament organization.
He was also selected by Amnesty International for training in Washington, D.C., and to help organize the Just Earth! project, which has been recognized by the social justice movement for linking human, environmental and labor rights as an effective partnership for promoting and protecting people's rights.