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Greg Mortenson is the co-founder of nonprofit Central Asia Institute (www.ikat.org), Pennies For Peace (www.penniesforpeace.org), and co-author of The New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea (www.threecupsoftea.com) which has sold over four million copies, been published in 45 countries, and a New York Times bestseller for over 170 weeks since its release.
Three Cups of Tea is also mandatory reading for all U.S. military commanders and Special Forces deploying to Afghanistan.
Mortenson’s new book, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books Not Bombs, In Afghanistan and Pakistan, was released by Viking on December 1, 2009 and debuted as #2 on the The New York Times bestseller lest.
As of 2010, Mortenson has established more than 141 schools, and another five dozen temporary refugee schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education to over 64,000 children, including 52,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before.
In 2009, Mortenson received Pakistan’s highest civil award, Sitara-e-Pakistan (“Star of Pakistan”) for his humanitarian effort to promote girls education in rural areas for 15 years.
Several bi-partisan U.S. Congressional representatives have nominated Mortenson twice for the Nobel Peace Prize in both 2009 and 2010. President Obama designated $100,000 of his Nobel Peace Prize award to be donated to Mortenson’s effort in Afghanistan in March 2010.