Francis Martin O'Donnell - Public Life

Public Life

Since the early 1990s, O'Donnell was actively involved in promoting global peace services and inter-faith dialogue, with World Peacemakers (see ) and the United States Agency for International Development, Global Alliance of Peace Services, the Life and Peace Institute (see ), the Swedish Christian Council, Pax Christi, International Alert, and others.

He has also addressed public and expert audiences, and delivered keynote addresses at several international conferences. He delivered an address (see ) to the XXII International Congress on the Family in Kiev, Ukraine (see ), and more recently was guest speaker at the Conference for Young Christian Professionals held in Rome on 28–30 November 2008, where he addressed the subject of Leadership Challenges in the Service of Society. The conference was targeted at "socially active young people, those who are not afraid to discuss the challenges and problems of modern life and who would like to find solutions in the spirit of Pope John Paul II's call to ‘build a civilisation of love’, i.e. young people between the ages of 25-35, in particular the peers of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II." Several of his papers have been published and he contributed chapters to several published works on peace and governance issues.

O'Donnell appeared on national TV and radio programmes in several developing countries and in France, Italy, Turkey, as well as on Irish RTE, UK Radio-4 (see ), KRTV (see ) and FOX NEWS (US) (see ), and on the BBC and CNN, Serbian and Montenegrin TV channels (RTS, B92, Beta), and Ukrainian TV as well as in various print media.