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* [[Tawakkol Karman]] (born 1979) – Yemini journalist, politician and human rights activist. Shared 2011 Nobel Peace prize.
* [[Tawakkol Karman]] (born 1979) – Yemini journalist, politician and human rights activist. Shared 2011 Nobel Peace prize.
* Manwar Khan (born 1978) - Canadian anti-bullying activist
* [[Helen Keller]] (1880–1968) – deafblind writer, speech "Strike Against The War" Carnegie Hall, New York 1916
* [[Helen Keller]] (1880–1968) – deafblind writer, speech "Strike Against The War" Carnegie Hall, New York 1916
* [[Kathy Kelly]] (born 1952) – American peace and anti-war activist, arrested over 60 times during protests. Member and organizer of international peace teams.
* [[Kathy Kelly]] (born 1952) – American peace and anti-war activist, arrested over 60 times during protests. Member and organizer of international peace teams.

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This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall anti-war and peace movements to focus the world's attention on the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating to, and held in place by, the various irrational, violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.

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Vittorio Arrigoni

B

James Bevel
Medea Benjamin
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C

Helen Caldicott
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D

Dorothy Day
David Dellinger
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E

Hedy Epstein
  • Shirin Ebadi (born 1947) – Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, Nobel peace laureate
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955) – Scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in physics
  • Daniel Ellsberg (born 1931) – American anti-war whistleblower, protester
  • James Gareth Endicott (1898–1993) – initiator, organizer, protester
  • Hedy Epstein (1924–2016) – Jewish-American antiwar activist, escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport; active in opposition to Israeli military policies
  • Jodie Evans (born 1954) – co-founder Code Pink, initiator, organizer, filmmaker
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G

Emma Goldman
  • Arun Gandhi (born 1934) – Indian, organizer, educator, grandson of Mohandas
  • Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) – Indian, writer, organizer, protester, lawyer, inspiration to movement leaders
  • Eric Garris (born 1953) - founding webmaster of antiwar.com
  • Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) - organizer of women's peace movement in Liberia, awarded 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Everett Gendler (born 1928) - Conservative rabbi, peace activist, writer
  • Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) – American anti-war protester, writer
  • Arthur Gish (1939–2010) – American public speaker and peace activist
  • Danny Glover (born 1946) – American actor and anti-war activist
  • Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – Russian/American activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I
  • Amy Goodman (born 1957) - journalist, host of Democracy Now!
  • Paul Goodman (1911-1972) - writer, psychotherapist, social critic, anarchist philosopher and public intellectual
  • Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931) – Russian anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency
  • Wavy Gravy (born 1936) - American entertainer and activist for peace
  • Dick Gregory (born 1932) – American comedian, anti-war protester
  • Ben Griffin (born 1977) - former British SAS soldier and Iraq War veteran
  • Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) – American anti-war protester and musician, inspiration
  • Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935) – current Dalai Lama, peace advocate
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Brian Haw
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Daisaku Ikeda
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K

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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L

Henri La Fontaine
John Lennon
Bertie Lewis
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M

Rigoberta Menchú
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Abie Nathan
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  • Phil Ochs (1940–1976) – American anti-Vietnam war singer/songwriter, initiated protest events
  • Paul Oestreicher (born 1931) – Canon emeritus of Coventry Cathedral, Christian pacifist, active in post-war reconciliation
  • Yoko Ono (born 1933) – Japanese anti-Vietnam war campaigner in America and Europe
  • Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938) – German pacifist, Nobel peace laureate, opponent of Nazi rearmament
  • Laurence Overmire (born 1957) – poet, author, theorist
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Peace Pilgrim
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  • Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) – German pacifist, Nobel peace laureate
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R

Arundhati Roy
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S

Cindy Sheehan
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  • Kathleen Tacchi-Morris (1899–1993) – founder of Women for World Disarmament
  • Tank Man – Stood in front of tank during 1989 China protest
  • Eve Tetaz (born 1931) – retired teacher, peace and justice activist
  • Thomas (1947–2009) – initiated, long-time participant, White House peace vigil
  • Ellen Thomas (born 1947) – long-time participant, White House peace vigil
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) – American writer, philosopher, inspiration to movement leaders
  • Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976) – British actress and pacifist. Member of the Peace Pledge Union who gave readings for its benefit
  • Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) – Russian writer on nonviolence, inspiration to Gandhi, Bevel, and other movement leaders
  • André Trocmé (1901–1971), with his wife Magda (1901–1996) – Protestant pacifist pastor, saved many Jews in Vichy France
  • Benjamin Franklin Trueblood (1847–1916) – 19th century writer, editor, organizer, initiator
  • Barbara Grace Tucker – Australian born peace activist, long time participant of the Parliament Square Peace Campaign
  • Desmond Tutu (born 1931) – South African cleric, initiator, anti-apartheid, inspiration
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  • Jo Vallentine (born 1946) – Australian politician and peace activist
  • Mordechai Vanunu (born 1954) – Israeli whistleblower
  • Lanza del Vasto (1901–1981) – Gandhian, philosopher, poet, nonviolent activist
  • Stellan Vinthagen (born 1964) Swedish anti-war and nonviolent resistance scholar-activist
  • Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) – American anti-war and anti-nuclear writer and protestor
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Jody Williams
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  • Peter Yarrow (born 1938) – American singer/songwriter, anti-war activist
  • Adam Yauch (1964–2012) – Musician, Buddhist, advocate for peace
  • Neil Young (born 1945) – singer/songwriter, anti-war advocate, other causes
  • Edip Yüksel (born 1957) – Kurdish-Turkish-American lawyer/author, Islamic peace proponent
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  • Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) – historian, lawyer in international law and human rights, vociferous critic of military interventions and the use of torture
  • Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – historian, writer, peace advocate
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See also

References

  1. ^ Chandran, Sudha. "An Angel's Song", The Gulf Today, Sharjah, November 24, 2000.
  2. ^ "American peace activist killed by army bulldozer in Rafah". Haaretz. 17 March 2003. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Profile: Rachel Corrie". BBC News. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Israeli peace pioneer Abie Nathan dies aged 81". Haaretz. The Associated Press. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2014.