Virginia Stibbs Anami

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Overview

Virginia Stibbs Anami born Miami Beach, FL July 14, 1944. American-Japanese cultural envoy, author, photographer, lecturer on East Asia; spouse of Japanese ambassador to China 2000-06.

Quotations

"To be real friends we must understand how much we depend on each other. . . like the passion for jazz music that is shared by my ‘three home countries,’ let us celebrate the commonalities among us." ("Three Names, Three Homes." Qiuju He, Enjoying Every Day in China: Interviews of Wives of Ambassadors to China, p. 57, 2006; photo big5.showchina.org)

Sanam Naraghi Anderlini

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Sanam Naraghi Anderlini born Iran October 29, 1967. UN peacekeeping expert; authority on conflict and gender. Published Women Building Peace: What They Do, Why it Matters, 2007. Primary author of MIT report on UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

Quotations

"No culture condones rape. But in war, cultural norms break down." (UNPF Bucharest workshop)

"The changing nature of warfare and the fragmentation of security means that the business of peacemaking needs change too." (Recommendations, p. 6)

“The inclusion and empowerment of women in conflict prevention and peace processes is not idealism in the midst of real politics. It is one of the necessary and infinitely pragmatic antidotes to politics and business as usual if the objective is sustainable peace.” (No Women No Peace exhibition; photo http://bit.ly/HRjdug)

Mary B. Anderson

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Overview

Mary B. Anderson born Kentucky March 31, 1939. American economist, specializing in international aid; peace researcher. Founded Local Capacities for Peace Project, 1995. Published Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace—Or War, 1997.

Quotations

“Normal people living normal lives have the option to avoid war.” (Opting Out of War, with Marshall Wallace, 2012; photo bistandstorgeet.no)

Andrea Andreen

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Ellenor Andrea Andreen born Örby, Sweden July 11, 1888 (d. 1972). Swedish doctor; radical peace leader of "Women's Non-Violent Revolt against War" when 20,000 women refused bomb shelter use 1935; major opponent of chemical and biological weapons; tried to stem Cold War for which USSR gave her Lenin Peace Prize 1953.

Quotations

"[T]he most important guaranty for peace at present is the will for peace of the governments of the Eastern countries." (Congress of American Women, Oct. 23, 1949; photo ru.wikipedia)

Fannie Fern Andrews

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Fannie Fern Andrews born Margaretville, Canada September 25, 1867 (d. 1950). American pioneer in peace education; internationalist teacher and pacifist; author, lecturer, and organizer; founded American School Peace League 1908; co-founded Women’s Peace Party 1915; WILPF founder; started Central Organization for Durable Peace 1915 Hague; created League for Permanent Peace 1918; began International Bureau of Education 1926; planned first international education conference 1914; Delegate of US Bureau of Education at Versailles Peace Conference 1919.

Quotations

"All that has been accomplished in the international peace movement has been done through the process of education. . . If law is to be substituted for war it must be chiefly through the children of the present generation." (Baltimore, May 5, 1911; photo Wikipedia)

Neidonuo Angami

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Neidonuo Angami born Kohima, Nagaland, India October 1, 1950. Naga peacemaker. Co-founded Naga Mother’s Association, 1984. Led the "Shed No More Blood" campaign to end civil war, 1994. Participated in many peace negotiations to bring about ceasefire, 1997. Nobel Peace Prize nominee, 2005.

Quotations

"Peace is always in the making. It is not an event. There is no success in peace making. It is always in the making." (quote & photo worldpeoplesblog)

Maya Angelou

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Overview

Maya Angelou (née Marguerite Johnson) born St. Louis, MO April 4, 1928. Poet, civil rights leader.

Quotations

Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
("A Brave and Startling Truth" poem on 50th anniversary of United Nations)

"The honorary duty of a human being is to love."

"We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate—thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising." (allforthegreatergood.com/constitution.html; photo academy of achievement)

Lupe Anguiano

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Lupe Anguiano born La Junta, CO March 12, 1929. Mexican-American civil rights activist; environmentalist; former nun. Performed nonviolent work with Cesar Chavez; opposed Iraq War as "senseless."

Quotations

“We have a responsibility to take a stance on issues. . . The dignity of humankind is at stake here.” (Ventura County Star, Mar. 3, 2007)

Annot

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Annot Jacobi (née Anna Krigar-Menzel) born Berlin, Germany December 27, 1894 (d. 1981). German pacifist artist of Secessionist school. Opposed World War I; jailed 30 days for antiwar leaflets, 1916. Exiled to Norway, 1916-20. Joined German WILPF following the war. Nazis closed her Berlin art school for not expelling Jewish students, 1933. Exiled to US, where she became a Quaker, 1941. Oversaw distribution of American Friends Service Committee parcels to Germany, 1946. Honorary Chair of Puerto Rico SANE for starting its campaign against nuclear weapons, 1958.

Quotations

“Don’t forget: pacifism was much better developed in the Twenties, and yet we had World War II.” (Friends Journal, Jan. 15, 1976, p. 53)

Anohni

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Anohni (née Antony Hegarty) born Chichester, West Sussex, England October 24, 1971. Popular British singer of anti-war songs; War Child album 2005 benefit for Bosnian war children; protested fifth year of Iraq War 2008; 2016 album Hopelessness includes “Drone Bomb Me”.

Quotations

“It's a love song from the perspective of a girl in Afghanistan, say a nine-year-old girl whose family's been killed by a drone bomb. . . She is kind of looking up at the sky, and she's gotten herself to a place where she just wants to be killed by a drone bomb too." (“Ahnoni”, Rolling Stone, March 9, 2016; photo dallasvoice.com)

Margaret Anstee

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Margaret Joan Anstee born Chelmsford, Essex, England June 25, 1926. Diplomat. 41 years service to UN, 1952-93; rose to rank of Under-Secretary General, 1987. Director General of UN, Vienna, 1987-92. First woman to head UN peacekeeping mission, Angola, 1992.

Quotations

“[W]e have to assist the Angolans in finding peace because the present situation is such a dreadful one that it can't be allowed to continue. . . While we are talking here, people are dying and suffering in Angola.” (Abidjan, April 11, 1993; photo Wikipedia)

Klaryta Antoszewska

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Klaryta Antoszewska (née Ida Antoszewska) born Poniewierz, Lithuania April 14, 1932 (d. 2014). Holocaust survivor; humanitarian; philologist; peacemaker and protester against nuclear weapons; rescuer of refugees. Catholic sister of St. Francis. Described by a Ken Butigan as "[A] nonviolent lion for justice." (photo of her persuading armed policeman at Nevada test site, 2007, wagingnonviolence.com)

Jane Anyango

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Jane Anyango born Nairobi, Kenya March 17, 1970. “Woman of Peace”; Grassroots peacemaker; founded Kibera Women for Peace and Fairness 2007; member of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Reference commission 2012; ran Peace Through Action and Advocacy in 2013 elections; named Peace Ambassador by International Women Peace Group 2015; Kroc Institute WomanPeacemaker 2016.

Quotations

“We are tired. We want peace. We are starving. We are being killed. We are appealing to Mama Lucy Kibaki and Mama Ida Odinga, the wives to the president and prime minister. Our children in the slums are just as precious to us as your children are to you. They need peace. They need to be safe. They need to eat. We lost a child yesterday and we are tired.” (quote and photo Maggie Morshed, “From the Hard Earth”, p. 18, Kroc WomenPeacemaker narrative, 2008)

Chris Anyanwu

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Overview

Christiana Anyanwu born Mbaise, Imo, Nigeria October 28, 1951. Nigerian journalist and politician. Jailed three years for reporting a failed coup. Elected senator, 2007.

Quotations

“[T]he world is full of tension and violence due to ethnic, religious and racial hatred. The western developed nations that condone racism and ethnic hatred are as guilty as the eastern or southern, developing nations that fuel ethnic and religious hatred among their various peoples. All have contributed to the making of a violent world. A violent world is symptomatic of a globe ruled by closed minds. A battle for the control of the mind is raging. Never before has there been a greater need for mass education as an instrument of ‘constructing enduring defences of peace.’” (UNESCO 80 Women; photo dailypost.ng)