Who is S.P. Udayakumar, (Koodankulam anti-nuclear) activist of the year

I greatly admired S.P. Udayakumar (Koodankulam anti-nuclear activist) for his calm and composed response; it is usually not easy to reply moronic Narayanasamy and moronic Ponraj (advisor of Abdul Kalam) who're always blabbering irrationally. By wrongly judging from his sober and humble look, I'd thought that he's an illiterate villager from Koodankulam. But, recently I came to know that he's studied in USA and worked as a professor there. My respect for him greatly increased when I compared him with other exhibitionist NRIs.

Here are the details that I collected...

Name: S.P. Udayakumar
Age: 50
Native: Nagercoil
Family: Wife Meera running SACCER primary and middle school, 2-sons

Education

M.A. (Peace Studies) from Notre Dame University in the United States (1990)
Ph.D. (Political Science) from the University of Hawaii (1996)

(Past) Occupation

Research fellow at Kirwan Institute
Professor at Governor's School of Public Issues and the Future of New Jersey at Monmouth University
India-Pakistan Reconciliation School, a free on-line course (2001)
Director of TRANSCEND South Asia, the world's first on-line peace university

Activism

Co-founded the Green Party of India (2000)
Member of World Futures Studies Federation
Member of the International Peace Research Association
Editorial member of Journal of Futures Studies
Koodankulam anti-nuclear movement

Links

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