Glen T. Martin

The photos of Glen T. Martin shown here depict: (1) Receiving the GUSI International Peace Prize, Manila, Philippines, November 2013, (2) meeting with the Foreign Secretary of Libya in Tripoli, April 2006, (2) giving a World Constitution and Parliament Association seminar in Ghana, West Africa, 2010, (3) founding a new WCPA chapter in Costa Rica, 2010, (4) inspecting Tsunami damage in Sri Lanka, January 2005, (5) meeting with the spiritual leader of the Oomoto Religion, Japan, February 2005, and (6) holding a press conference on the Earth Constitution in Lucknow, India, June 2008.

Dr. Martin is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies Emeritus at Radford University in Virginia and founder in 1994 of the Radford University program in Peace Studies, of which he was Chairperson.

Since long before receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and his MA from Hunter College, he was a conscientious objector to war and active in movements for peace and the transformation of our brutal and violent world order. Much of his writing and scholarship has centered around the interconnections between the spiritual and social-political dimensions of achieving peace and human liberation.

Since 1995, Dr. Martin has been active in the movement to create non-military, democratic world government under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. In this capacity, since 1997 he has been a member of the World Executive Council of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) which coordinates a network of tens of thousands of people from 120 countries worldwide in their work toward these goals.

He is currently President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association. Within this movement for world government under the Earth Constitution, he is also President of the Earth Constitution Institute (ECI) holding seminars and online courses in different locations around the world to train future leaders to deal with global problems in the light of democratic world government. He is also the Honorary President for Life of International Philosophers for Peace (IPPNO).

Since 2001, he has been a professor for Institute seminars in Takoradi, Ghana, Kara, Togo, Lucknow, India, Chennai, India, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Bangkok, Thailand, Kameoka, Japan, Toronto, Canada, Tepoltzlan, Mexico, San Jose, Costa Rica, and elsewhere. The Earth Constitution Institute serves as a think-tank and non-profit educational institution actively addressing world problems and helping "build leadership skills for the Earth Federation," and, with WCPA, sponoring sessions of the Provisional World Parliament.

Martin has published or edited fourteen books, several of them focusing on the practical and philosophical foundations of democratic world law and the processes of human liberation toward a just, peaceful, and free world order. He has also published dozens of articles on a variety of topics in comparative philosophy, the spirituality of human liberation, economic democracy, democratic world government and global social issues.

He is also a regular contributor of political editorials to various newspapers and newsletters. As a result of his scholarly and organizing activities, he has received several international awards for his work toward world peace, including the 2007 "World Peace Award" from the Office of the World Peace Envoy in Bangkok, Thailand, the "Light of the World Award" from WCPA (Asia Wing) and Bharat Vikas Parishad in Chennai, India, 2011, as well as the GUSI International Peace Prize from the GUSI Peace Prize Foundation in Manila, Philippines, November 2013.

He lives with his wife and daughter in Radford, Virginia, USA. Hia personal website is named "One World Renaissance."