Chairman & CEO
US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc.
His academic career has focused on issues of death and dying, ethics, and disease prevention, with over 125 scholarly presentations and publications, including several books and book chapters. Dr. Knox has been responsible for more than $35 million in grants and other external funding to USF. He has served as President of the USF faculty senate and continues to provide consultation on various university committees. He is also founder and director of the Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center and the USF Center for HIV Education and Research. While addressing the urgent need for preventing the spread of HIV, especially in underserved populations, his career includes an additional focus on peace leadership.
His long-standing anti-war activities began in 1965 in opposition to the war in Vietnam. As a delegate to the 20th National Student Congress, he introduced a successful resolution to hold an anti-war demonstration in August of 1967 in front of the White House. In 1970, Dr. Knox co-founded a draft counseling center and, in 1971, he blew the whistle on classified weapon systems research at the University of Michigan. Since then, he has continued to engage in speeches, debates, interviews and other actions regarding peace. He most recently published anti-war commentary in Time, USA Today, and the Journal of HIV and Social Services. As Co-Chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research's 16th National HIV/AIDS Update Conference held in 2004, Professor Knox delivered the opening plenary which argued against current US wars and in favor of more government support for disease prevention.
In 2005, Dr. Knox founded the US Peace Memorial Foundation which seeks to demonstrate that advocating for peaceful solutions to international problems is an honorable and socially acceptable activity. This 501(c)(3) public charity will build the US Peace Memorial in Washington DC to honor Americans who have opposed war(s) and/or proposed peaceful alternatives to war. He is editor of the US Peace Registry, a publication which recognizes role models and documents a broad range of anti-war behavior. He presents widely on the topics of Òrecognizing peace leadershipÓ and Òbuilding a culture of peaceÓ. He was an invited speaker at the Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association in 2006 and 2007. Dr. Knox's work promotes cultural change, raising our awareness of past efforts towards peace and increasing future opportunities to challenge the promotion of war.
His biography is included in the latest editions of Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in American Education. Professor Knox is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Fellow status in both organizations is granted Òin recognition of outstanding and distinguished contributions to the science and profession of psychology.Ó In 2005 he was inducted into Sigma Xi , the international honor society of research scientists and engineers.
Dr. Knox was awarded the 2007 Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. The award is presented annually by Psychologists for Social Responsibility and recognized him for more than four decades of outstanding contributions to peace and humanitarian assistance.
The IRS has determined that
donations are tax deductible.
Copyright 2005-2007, US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc.