Institute of Peace mourns the loss of Landrum Bolling, an educator, journalist, philanthropist, author and activist for Middle East peace. Bolling worked across nine decades to bridge divides among ethnic, religious and national groups, and to resolve conflicts in ways that averted the use of violence. Lindborg recalled meeting Bolling when he joined Mercy Corps—at age 82—to run reconciliation programs in the shattered city of Sarajevo toward the end of the Bosnian war.
Bolling was perhaps best known for his decades of work to find a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was an informal advisor to several presidents, helping to improve communications between the United States and Palestinians. Bolling also built close relations with Israeli leaders, and throughout his career kept up communications with leaders from all sides across the Middle East.
Nearly a half-century later, in , he took up the same conflict in his last book: Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Arab-Jewish Partnerships. Landrum Rymer Bolling was born in to a Baptist family in rural, southeastern Tennessee, and had taken up the Quaker faith by the time he became a young college professor. Bolling resolved his dilemma by resigning his professorship to cover the war for a group of Wisconsin newspapers.
Landrum Rymer Bolling Edit Profile academic administrator consultant writer Landrum Rymer Bolling, American academic administrator, writer, consultant. Add photo. View map. Born November 13, Parksville, Tennessee, United States. Education University Tennessee , Bachelor of Arts. University Chicago , Master of Arts. Valparaiso University , Doctor of Law.
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Eastern Nazarene College , Doctor of Law. Denison University , Doctor of Law. Campbell College , Doctor of Law. Indiana University , Doctor of Law. Beginning in the administration of President Jimmy Carter, when direct official communication between Washington and the PLO was forbidden, he was one of the informal, "non-official" links entrusted with delivering messages between the White House and the State Department and top Palestinian leaders.
Bolling has received more than 30 honorary doctorates from U. His alma mater, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, awarded him with its prestigious Founders Medal in As a tribute to Bolling's leadership, Earlham named its new social sciences building, the Landrum Bolling Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Social Sciences, for him in In , Bolling received the James L.
As of October , at the age of nearly 98, Bolling continues his active involvement in global peace and justice issues. Currently, he serves as a senior advisor to Mercy Corps, working out of the agency's Washington, DC office, on matters of policy and program development; serves as president of Pax World Service a Mercy Corps affiliate that promotes citizen diplomacy ; and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington.
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