Mary Ellen McNish is General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). In this position she administers a staff of 500 overseeing programs in 22 countries around the world and 46 cities in the US. AFSC is a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 for its work in post World War II Germany on behalf of Quakers
The Permanent Secretariat of Nobel Peace Laureates Summits derives from a new and more broadly based collaboration between the International Gorbachev Foundation and the City of Rome for realizing the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates. The Permanent Secretariat, based in Rome, is a non-profit association without political aims.
As well as organizing the tasks of the Summit, the Secretariat monitors the activities of Nobel Peace Laureates, while promoting the adoption of the "Charter for a world without violence" and supporting the work of the Nobel, who participate in the annual Summits at Rome, as mediators in various conflicts around the world (Article 3 of the Statute).
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Albert Schweitzer Institute
Architects of Peace
Global Security Institute
Gorbachev Foundation
Greencross
