Speakers and Staff

Our Founder Howard S. Brembeck, founder of the Fourth Freedom Forum, is an international businessman and founder of an agricultural equipment manufacturing corporation doing business in over 90 countries. Since 1979, Brembeck has been active in developing The Civilized Defense Plan, a positive and pragmatic concept using "smart" sanctions, incentives, and strategic trade as alternatives to military power.

Our President

Alistair Millar is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and codirector of the Forum's Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation. He also teaches graduate level courses on counterterrorism and U.S. foreign policy at The Johns Hopkins University, The George Washington University and at the Department of Homeland Security's Center of Excellence on the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.

Millar has written numerous chapters, articles, and reports on international counterterrorism efforts, sanctions regimes, and nonproliferation. He is author, with Eric Rosand, of Allied against Terrorism: What's Needed to Strengthen Worldwide Commitment, published by the Century Foundation in 2006 and editor of Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Emergent Threats in an Evolving Security Environment (Brassey's 2003). His opinion editorials and articles have appeared in publications and periodicals including the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, Defense News, and The Journal inf International Affairs. He has also been interviewed on ABC, BBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and numerous other media outlets.

Millar has an MA from Leeds University and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. Before joining the Forum in 1998, Millar was a senior analyst at the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) where he focused on European security issues.

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Senior Fellow and Codirector, Sanctions and Security Research Program

David Cortright is chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum, Senior Fellow and codirector of the Sanctions and Security Research Program of the Fourth Freedom Forum and Kroc Institute. He has served as consultant or adviser to agencies of the United Nations, international think tanks, and the foreign ministries of Canada, Japan and several European countries. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, multilateral counter-terrorism, the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking, and nonviolent social change.

As a soldier during the Vietnam War, Cortright joined with fellow soldiers to speak out against the war as part of the GI peace movement. In 1978 Cortright was named the executive director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, which under his direction became the largest disarmament organization in the US. Cortright initiated the merger of SANE and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and served for a time as co-director of the merged organization. In 2002 Cortright helped to found the Win Without War coalition in opposition to the US invasion of Iraq.

He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including most recently Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat (The MIT Press, 2007), coedited with George A. Lopez; and Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism (Paradigm, 2006). Cortright has recently completed Building Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, forthcoming 2008

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Our Staff

Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf is director of programs of the Fourth Freedom Forum and codirector, Sanctions and Security Research Program. She received her Masters of Library Science degree from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is in charge of operations at the Goshen headquarters of the Forum and is responsible for the administrative oversight of operations and for the direction of research projects. She participates in the joint Fourth Freedom Forum/Kroc Institute Sanctions and Security Project and has helped write and edit various reports and books produced by the Fourth Freedom Forum. She is a member of the Special Libraries Association.

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Jennifer Glick is director of information services, and designs and oversees computer and database systems, edits books and articles, designs publications and manages their development and production, maintains the Forum web site, and plans conferences and events sponsored by the Forum. She received her undergraduate degree in Art and Art Education from Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, and her M.B.A. from Indiana University, South Bend, Indiana. Her past experience and education are in the areas of economics, business systems, public relations and marketing, graphic design, and illustration.

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Jason Ipe is a senior analyst with the Washington, D.C. office of the Fourth Freedom Forum. His work focuses on issues of counter-terrorism and nuclear nonproliferation. He received his B.A. in International Relations from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut and his M.A. in International Security Policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Kimberly Kimpel Minier is administrative assistant with the Goshen office of the Fourth Freedom Forum. Before joining the Forum, she spent fifteen years as a financial representative in the banking industry. She has taken courses over the years with the American Institute of Banking.

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Amanda Kreps-Long is the program and administrative assistant for the Fourth Freedom Forum. She received her undergraduate degree in Social Work, with an emphasis in Gender Studies and Peace Studies, from Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana. In 2000 she received an MSW from Western Michigan University in Policy, Planning and Administration. Before joining the Fourth Freedom Forum, Kreps-Long was Director of the Reproductive Freedom Project for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.

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Pat Pinnick, a certified public accountant, is financial manager with the Goshen office of the Fourth Freedom Forum. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from the University of Illinois, his MSBA from Indiana University in South Bend, and his MBA from the University of Notre Dame. Before joining the Forum in 2008, Pat worked for the South Bend (Indiana) Heritage Foundation, where he continues to serve part time as financial administrator.

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