War & Peace

Kevin Sanders - Director of Special Projects/UN Representative

Sanders' current UN Special Project is Changing Course without Swerving"

Project in development:
THE LAST BOMB:
Pathways to Nuclear Zero

Recent Projects
WORLD OPINION FORUM documentary: "THE PEOPLE VS THE BOMB: SHOWDOWN AT THE UN"
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CUNY TV Hiroshima Day Special Report

THE BOMB IN THE AGE OF OBAMA" 7-minute trailer

- WATCH 2006 one-hour PROGRAM AT GOOGLE VIDEO


Sanders is Director of World Opinion Forum as a Special Project of the War & Peace Foundation. He has spent his professional life in international broadcasting and journalism reporting in TV, radio, newspapers and magazines on politics, culture, science and finance. As anchor and founding parliamentary bureau chief of the Nine TV Network in Australia, Sanders was described by the country's leading political commentator, Alan Reid as "One of the few journalists who can recognize immediately the true political dynamics of any situation, whether it be a Georgetown cocktail party or an African Kraal."

He was part of the global live TV coverage of the landing on the moon featured in the movie The Dish and later his hosting of the live CNN coverage of the NASA shuttle missions won the Space Club Press Award, an honor shared over the years by among others Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.

Sanders' CNN reports on Nitinol, a new Metal Energy conversion system won the US Engineer's Award for Broadcasting Excellence. His follow-up articles in Science Digest were translated and republished by Japan Times in their annual selection of the world's best science reports.
His reporting on nuclear disarmament began at CNN in 1982 with
STOPPING THE UNTHINKABLE ,a controversial - and unfinished - series, halted by CNN after Pentagon protests.

At CNN Sanders first proposed a demonstration of a new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) metal imaging scanner to investigate claims that the Holy Grail was hidden in a pillar at Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland - made famous 13 years later in "The Da Vinci Code" . (Permission for test is still denied.)

Sanders' widely republished 1990 article "A Beginner's Guide to the BNL-BCCI Bank Scandal" was chosen by Project Censored as one of the top twenty stories of the year. It was later selected by Utne Reader Magazine as one of the top ten stories of the past ten years. Sanders' cover story for Whole Earth Review, The Age of Transparency on the political implications of earth observation satellites was later anthologized with essays by William James, John F. Kennedy and Arthur C. Clarke in the book, Securing Our Planet

. Sanders has also written for The Nation, Futurist, Current, Horizons, Penthouse, Politiks, and newspapers and journals in USA, Europe, Japan and Australia.

As critic and commentator on ABC TV news in New York he often sparked controversy. The first public prediction that Nixon would face impeachment came in Sanders' pre-Watergate TV interview with the late journalist I.F. Stone. Martin Scorcese once threatened to sue Sanders for his review of Taxi Driver. (However Scorcese later cast Sanders as the Duke in The Age of Innocence)

In 1977 Sanders produced and hosted a widely transcribed and republished one-hour TV discussion The Next Hundred Years with Margaret Mead, Herman Khan and William Irwin Thompson.

In 1986 Sanders wrote and produced the Peabody nominated Footsteps of Giants, the first documentary for the newly established Fox Network - a one hour 25th anniversary TV special on the first American in space, for which he wrote the US President's introductory speech. The program was praised by the New York Times and is available on Pacific Video

In 1996 Sanders was the only broadcast journalist to cover the entire proceedings of the World Court hearings in the Hague on the legality of nuclear weapons. He later wrote, produced and hosted the Globalvision documentary on the hearings, "The People vs The Bomb: Judgment in the Hague" shown on PBS in New York and on national TV in Canada and Australia. In 1998 at Cambridge University in Britain he was the only journalist to cover the proceedings of The Planetary Interest conference.

As an occasional commentator on Fox News Sanders provided progressive political perspectives. His role at Fox ended when he called for the closing of NATO.

Sanders has become increasingly active in NGO broadcast outreach at the United Nations. In 1997 as Chairman of the Earth Society Foundation, founded by Margaret Mead, Sanders hosted the first live webcast from the United Nations, the Earth Day Peace Bell Ceremony. At the ceremony Sanders proposed creating a C-Span of the UN - a continuing project. Sanders is now founding director of the World Opinion Forum, an enterprise initiated by UN NGOs, War & Peace Foundation, the World Federalists - founded by Albert Einstein - and the UN Earth Day Peace Bell Ceremony co-founded by Margaret Mead. At the UN in 2003 Sanders produced and hosted the first day-long World Opinion Forum international webcast on World Opinion: A New Superpower? with a keynote address by Denis Kucinich. Later Sanders hosted a follow-up day-long conference on The Future of the UN at Seton Hall University with a keynote address from Walter Cronkite.
As UN media representative for the London-based Oneworld Radio network of more than a thousand radio stations, Sanders provided a daily program, World Opinion to review international editorial commentary.


World Opinion Forum provides continuing coverage of nuclear disarmament including the celebration on UN Earth Day 2020 of the anticipated abolition of nuclear weapons as called for by Mayors for Peace, World Parliamentarians and the European Parliament.
Then (or whenever the world finally abolishes nuclear weapons) at the moment of Spring Equinox - when we ring the Peace Bell at the UN as we have for 40 years - a radio telescope in Australia will beam a link to Google as the first message to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri only 4 light-years away.

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Sanders Contact

e-mail:
sanders.ka@gmail.com
Cell:
1(917)319-8621


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