David Cortright, president of the Fourth Freedom Foundation, is scheduled to deliver a lecture Thursday at Kansas University.

Cortright, who also serves as a research fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, will speak on “The Power of Nonviolence” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.

He is the 2008-09 Peace & Conflict Series lecturer, in a program sponsored by the Humanities and Western Civilization program at KU. The speech is free and open to the public.