ORG is delighted to announce the appointment of ORG's founder, Dr Scilla Elworthy, as Patron, to serve alongside recently appointed Patrons Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Baroness Shirley Williams, and Ashraf Ghani.   This appointment comes at the end of the year in which Scilla stepped down from membership of the ORG Board, thus completing 27 years of unbroken service to ORG, as Executive Director from 1982-2003, as Chair of the Board from 2003-2007, and as ordinary Board member from 2007-2009.   The announcement was made at a private reception for ORG sustainers on 4th November, where Scilla spoke on "How  change happens: a quarter century of dialogue with  policy makers on the prevention of war".   A film of a recent interview with Scilla on the prospects for nuclear disarmament has been posted on the www.talkworks.info website. Talkworks is a film and video project directed by ORG's Honorary Archivist, Rosie Houldsworth, which aims to show the weight of expert opinion that is behind President Obama's goal of global nuclear disarmament.>