Kirov has a new president Dr. Walsh

Thomas Walsh is the Chairman of the Universal Peace Federation; he also serves as Chairman of the Sunhak Peace Prize Foundation and as Co-Chair of the Coalition of Faith-Based Organizations. With academic training in the field of Religious Studies and Ethics, he earned his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. He has been a teacher, author and editor, with specialization in areas of interfaith relations, religious studies, religion and peace, philosophy and social theory. From 2015-2019, he served as Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Bridgeport (Connecticut, USA). Dr. Walsh is Vice Chair of the International Council of the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, and on the board of directors of The Washington Times. He is Executive Editor of Dialogue and Alliance, a scholarly interfaith journal.  He has contributed to and edited more than twenty books related to interfaith, peacebuilding and renewal of the United Nations; among these volumes are Renewing the United Nations and Building a Culture of Peace and The Millennium Declaration of the United Nations: A Response from Civil Society.