- David Peace
David Peace is a British author born in Ossett, West Yorkshire in 1967. His works include the "Red-Riding Quartet", "GB84" and "The Damned Utd". In 2003 David Peace was named as a Best of Young British Novelists by Granta. He now lives in Tokyo, Japan, with his family. - Stephen Peace
J. Stephen "Steve" Peace (March 30, 1953-) is a film writer and producer, and a US Democratic politician from California. Peace was born in 1953 in San Diego, California. His few film credits include the famous cult-movies in the parody "Killer Tomatoes" series ("Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!", "Return of the Killer Tomatoes!", "Killer Tomatoes Strike Back", and "Killer Tomatoes Eat France" (under the name J. Stephen "Rock" Peace). - Charles Peace
Charles Peace (14 May 1832 - 25 February 1879) was a notorious English burglar and murderer from Sheffield, whose somewhat remarkable life - though terrifying at the time - later spawned dozens of romanticized novels and films. Peace is mentioned by name in the Sherlock Holmes short story, "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client." - Roger C. Peace
Roger Craft Peace was a United States Senator from South Carolina. Born in Greenville, he attended the public schools and graduated from Furman University in 1919. He was a newspaper reporter, sports editor, editor, business manager, and publisher in Greenville. During the First World War he served as an instructor in the United States Army at Camp Perry in 1918. - Jeremy Peace
Jeremy Roland Peace is the chairman of West Bromwich Albion Football Club, a professional football club in the West Midlands, England. He was elected to the position of chairman in June 2002 following the resignation of Paul Thompson. When Peace took charge of the Albion boardroom, the club had just won promotion to the Premiership after almost 20 years outside the top flight. - Heather Peace
Heather Peace (born June 6, 1975 in Bradford) is an English actress. Her notable roles have included Anne Cullen in "Emmerdale Farm", Josie Clarke in "The Bill", Sally 'Gracie' Fields in "London's Burning" and Fiona Jones in BBC's "The Chase". She played Rebecca Gallagher in ITV's "Ultimate Force" from 2005 (series 3 onwards, introduced in the first episode which was entitled "Deadlier than the Male"). - Warren Peace
Warren Peace (i.e. "War and Peace") is a pseudonym for Geoffrey A. MacCormack (also known as GA MacCormack and Mac Cormack), an English vocalist, composer and dancer best known for his work with David Bowie in the 1970s. A long-time friend of Bowie, Peace (initially as GA MacCormack) contributed backing vocals to a number of albums, beginning with "Aladdin Sane" in 1973. He appeared with Bowie during his 1973 tour of the US and Japan, … - Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is regarded as one of America's greatest orators. King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, … - Ariel Sharon
"' (also known by his diminutive Arik אָרִיק"' is a former Israeli Prime Minister and military leader whose political career was ended by a massive stroke that he suffered in early 2006. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though the powers of his office were exercised by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following Sharon's stroke on 4 January2006. At that time, Sharon fell into a coma; as of July 2007, … - Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist and author. A 1984 graduate of Harvard University, Goodman is best known as the principal host of Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now!" program, where she has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "radio's voice of the disenfranchised left". Coverage of the peace and human rights movements — and support of the independent media — are the hallmarks of her work. - Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords. - Nhat Hanh
Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese: "Nhất Hạnh"; IPA: is an expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk. A teacher, author, and peace activist, Nhat Hanh was born in central Vietnam on October 11, 1926. He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. Commonly referred to as Thich Nhat Hanh, the title "Thích" is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, … - Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (b. 1954) of Chicago, Illinois is an American peace activist, pacifist, three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness. - Jim Wallis
The Reverend Jim Wallis (b. June 4 1948, Detroit, Michigan) is an Evangelical Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of "Sojourners Magazine" and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name. Wallis actively eschews political labels, but his advocacy tends to focus on issues of peace and social justice, earning him his primary support from the religious left. - Michael Franti
Michael Franti (born April 21, 1966, in Oakland, California) is an American poet, musician, and composer of African, American Indian, Italian, and German descent. Franti is the creator and driving force behind Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock. He is also an outspoken supporter for a wide spectrum of peace and social justice issues. - John Dear
Fr. John Dear, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, lecturer, and writer of approximately twenty books on nonviolence, including "Living Peace". In the course of his civil disobedience against war, he has been arrested more than 75 times. In addition, he was incarcerated for eight months for participating in a Plowshares Movement disarmament action. As a result, Dear lost his United States voting rights, is prohibited from traveling to certain countries, … - Jacob Zuma
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born Inkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, April 12, 1942) is a former Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa and current deputy president of the governing political party, the African National Congress (ANC). A popular figure even across political divides, he gained notoriety after his financial advisor, Schabir Shaik, was convicted of corruption and fraud, leading to Zuma's dismissal as deputy president in June 2005. - Catherine Of Siena
Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 - April 29, 1380) was a Dominican Tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order. Catherine was the 23rd child out of 25 (her twin sister, the 24th, died at birth); her parents were Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth-dyer, and his wife, Lapa Piagenti, daughter of a local poet. A native of Siena, Catherine received no formal education. - William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 - July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, statesman, and politician. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. One of the most popular speakers in American history, he was noted for his deep, commanding voice. Bryan was a devout Presbyterian, a strong proponent of popular democracy, an outspoken critic of banks and railroads, a leader of the silverite movement in the 1890s, … - Jim Brickman
Jim Brickman (born November 20, 1961) is an American composer and contemporary pianist. Brickman is known for his original solo piano compositions, which are classified as new age music. However, he is as well known for his original love songs and performing them with vocalists such as Anne Cochran, Hillary Scott, Martina McBride, Michael W. Smith, Michelle Wright and others. - Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione (b. November 13, 1949) is the Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. He served for eight years as the Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of "Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons" (Columbia University Press, 2007) and "Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, … - Salam Pax
Salam Pax is a pseudonymous blogger from Iraq whose site "Where is Raed?" (see external links) received notable media attention during (and after) the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The pseudonym itself consists of the two words meaning "peace": Arabic "Salām" and Latin "Pāx". Within his blog, Salam discusses the war, his friends, disappearances of people under the government of Saddam Hussein, and his work as a translator for journalist Peter Maass. - Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. - Álvaro Uribe
President Uribe reacted to this most recent scandal by purging the military. But he tellingly said that human-rights scandals "make us look bad," as if the problem were simply one of perception. He also called a representative of Human Rights Watch, an organization that helped uncover the violations, an "accomplice of the FARC," Colombia's largest guerrilla group. - Jessie Street
Born in Chota Nagpur, Bihar, India, Jessie Mary Grey Street (April 18, 1889 - July 2, 1970) was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner. She was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years, from the women's suffrage struggle in England to the removal of Australia’s constitutional discrimination against Aboriginal people in 1967. She is recognised both in Australia and internationally for her activism in women's rights, … - Federico Mayor
Federico Mayor Zaragoza (b. 1934 in Barcelona) is a Spanish scholar and politician. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. Mayor obtained a doctorate in pharmacy from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1958. In 1963 he became professor of biochemistry at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Granada, and in 1968 was elected rector of that university, a post he held until 1972. - Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans is former Foreign Minister of Australia and now serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Crisis Group. The I.C.G. is a multinational, non-governmental organization headquartered in Brussels and Washington, D.C. that focuses upon crisis prevention and follow-up. - John Hutton
John Hutton (born 1906 in New Zealand and died 1978 in England) is most famous for his glass engravings on the Great West Screen of Coventry Cathedral, UK, known as the "Screen of Saints and Angels", 66 larger-than-life figures that took ten years of creation (e.g. the angel of annunciation, the angel of the resurrection, the angel of the measuring rod), for which he received instant acclaim in 1962. - Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is an Indian, currently living in England, who has been a Jain monk and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is current editor of "Resurgence", founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School. He was born on August 9, 1936 in Sri Dungargarh, a town in the state of Rajasthan. At the age of 9 he left his family and became a monk and disciple of Acharya Tulsi. - Blase Bonpane
Blase Bonpane is an activist and author working against human rights abuses, and against U.S. intervention in Central America. He is the Director of the Office of the Americas and Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Working in the field for peace in many countries where suffering under the United States' intervention in local government such as Latin America, Cuba and Iraq, … - Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr O.F.M. (born in 1943 in Kansas) is a Franciscan priest, writer, and internationally known inspirational speaker. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. Rohr was the founder of the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971 and the "Center for Action and Contemplation" in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986 where he presently serves as Founding Director. Scripture as liberation, the integration of action and contemplation, community building, … - Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner, (9 June, 1843 in Prague, [then in Austrian Empire] - 21 June, 1914 in Vienna, (then in Austria-Hungary), born as Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Suttner was the daughter of an impoverished Austrian Field Marshal, Franz-Josef Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (October 12 1768-January 4 1843), and wife, … - Frankie Bones
Frankie Bones (real name Frank Mitchell) is an American techno and house music disc jockey from New York City. He is best known for bringing the rave culture to the United States after playing at a hangar party in the UK during 1989. He got his first inspiration from his father's vast Vinyl record|record collection after his father was murdered. Later on, after he had started producing records, … - Milan Rai
Milan Rai is a British peace campaigner who was arrested in October 2005 on the steps of a London war memorial, the Cenotaph, for refusing to cease reading aloud the names of civilians by then killed in Iraq following its most recent war, alongside fellow activist Maya Evans. Rai, a writer and anti-war activist from Hastings, was convicted under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 for taking part in an illegal demonstration within 1km of Parliament Square. - King Arthur Arthur
King Arthur is an important figure in the legends of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship both in war and peace. He is portrayed as the greatest king Britain, or the world, will ever have--even in modern times he has been ranked as one of the 100 Greatest Britons of all times. Over time, the popularity of the stories of King Arthur have captured interest far beyond his being the legendary hero of one nation. - David Swann
Dr. David Swann is a medical doctor and Alberta Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Mountain View. Swann is the co-founder of the Calgary-based group CANESI (Canadian Network to End Sanctions on Iraq) which later became CANDIL (Canada Democracy and International Law). In 2002, Swann was fired from his job of medical officer of health, for the Palliser Health Region in Alberta, for speaking out in favour of the Kyoto Accord. - Staughton Lynd
Staughton Lynd (b. November 22, 1929) is an American conscientious objector, peace and civil rights activist, tax resister, historian, professor, author and lawyer. His involvement in social justice causes has brought him into contact with some of the nation's most influential activists, including Howard Zinn, Tom Hayden and Daniel Berrigan. - Steve Rothman
Steven R. "Steve" Rothman (born October 14 1952 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American Democratic Party politician, who is a member of the United States House of Representatives for New Jersey's Ninth Congressional District (map). First sworn into the United States Congress on January 3, 1997, he now is serving his fifth two-year term in office. Rothman also sits on the powerful Committee on Appropriations in the House. He attended Washington University Law School. - Abdul Aziz Said
Abdul Aziz Said a Syrian-born writer and senior ranking professor of international relations in the School of International Service at American University where he has taught for fifty years. - Scott Nearing
Scott Nearing was an American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer. Nearing is the father of John Scott. Born in Morris Run, Pennsylvania, Nearing is still viewed as a radical 20 years after his death. In 1954 he co-authored "Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World" with his wife Helen (see the entry for Helen and Scott Nearing). The book, in which war, famine, and poverty were discussed, …
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