Betty A. Reardon
 Betty A. Reardon is a feminist peace educator and activist who has been working in education and human rights activism for over half a century.
She is best known as the Founding Director Emeritus of the International Institutes on Peace Education (IIPE), a global consortium for continuing peace education held annually since 1982 in various world regions. She was also the founder of the Peace Education Concentration and the Peace Education Center at Teachers College Columbia University. However, she herself attributes both the means and the ends of her work to her years in classroom teaching from middle through graduate school and adult non-formal education; and to her activist work in the international movements for peace, human rights and gender equality.
Recognized world wide as a leading theorist, designer of pedagogic materials and processes in peace education, she has integrated feminist and human rights perspectives on global issues into all her work. She has argued the need for feminists and peace activists and researchers to take into account the integral relationship linking patriarchy, and war and to recognize human rights as the fundamental foundation of peace.
Her work has taken her to all parts of the world. She was the initiator and the first Academic Coordinator of the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education.
Having served as a consultant to several UN agencies, her activities as an NGOs representative to the UN included working with the process that produced Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
Published widely in the field of peace and human rights education, and women’s issues, her most recent publication is The Gender Imperative: Human Security vs. State Security (Routledge 2010).
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