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About Ari Cowan

Cowan is a writer, theorist, and artist living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is the Founder, Executive Director Emeritus, and former member of the Board of Advisors of the nonprofit Family Health Institute, a four-year project established in 1996 under the auspices of the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), the US affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War — recipients of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Peace. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Washington chapter of PSR.

Mr. Cowan is the recipient of the Physicians for Social Responsibility's 1998 national public health Broad Street Pump Award, recognizing his socially responsible work in public health on behalf of children and families and in recognition of his "outstanding activism, steadfast commitment, and passion for a better world." He also received the Association for Human Resource Professionals' 1990 Award for Excellence in Human Resources, the highest award granted by that organization.

During his tenure with the Family Health Institute, Mr. Cowan created Project MAVRIC: The Men Against Violence Response Initiative Campaign, a public health educational program directed toward reducing violence by and against men and boys. MAVRIC has had wide exposure in the Pacific Northwest. This project was endorsed by a diverse number of groups including the Seattle Seahawks professional football team (linebacker Chad Brown served as television spokesperson), the US Public Health Service, Physicians for a Violence-Free Society, the University of Washington, Seattle Police Department, Mothers Against Violence in America, Washington Ceasefire, Washington State Association of Counties, and the YWCA — Imagine Life Without Violence campaign.

Mr. Cowan is the author of eight human resources/health benefits management reference works. He was a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of California, Irvine Graduate School of Management (Irvine, California) from 1989 to 1997. He served as a member of the Workplace Violence Task Force of the University of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs, Institute for Public Policy and Management.

Mr. Cowan spent seven years working in a group setting with many adults in treatment for severe violence in childhood.

He displayed his photographic work at the 1974 World's Fair; served as a film reviewer for The Daily Journal-American newspaper in Bellevue, Washington; and spent two years as the film reviewer on the Seattle PBS television affiliate. The late science-fiction author Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner) acknowledged Mr. Cowan as "a new and original thinker." Mr. Cowan was cited — along with Nobel Prize recipient and former President Jimmy Carter, 1980 Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, and others — for his assistance in bringing the first edition of The International Bill of Human Rights to publication.