Remarks by Santa Clara University President Paul Locatelli, S.J. on the Presentation of the First Architects of Peace Award, June 25, 2005

It is a great pleasure to present the first Santa Clara University Architect of Peace Awards as part of the World Leaders Summit sponsored by the Saga Foundation. Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has developed an active partnership with Mr. Bill Laughlin and his Saga Foundation. We are grateful for Bill's encouragement and support to become more active in the area of global ethics and global moral leadership. Bill's leadership has been instrumental for the InterAction Council to gather in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. Bill's pervasive influence has been key for us to award the first Architects of Peace Awards tonight.

A brief word about peace. We live in troubled times, so I suggest we recall Pope John XXIII's call for peace. In the early '60s, when the Berlin wall and the Cuban missile crisis had cast the shadow of conflict and possible war over the world, John XXIII called for peace. In his letter, Pacem in Terris, he urged us to live by four pillars of peace: truth, justice, love, and freedom. Today, I hope our world leaders, especially the most powerful or those with WMD, will live by these four, and other virtues such as wisdom, to bring peace on earth.