List Of Peacemakers

Peace in Our Lifetime features stories and messages from these and other peacemakers:

• Nelson Mandela
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• Mahatma Gandhi and Arun Gandhi, his grandson
  Swanee Hunt, former Austrian ambassador and founder of Women Waging Peace
• William Ury, internationally known mediator
• Eli Pariser, one of the founders of MoveOn
• Sherri Mandell, mother-turned-peacemaker after her son was killed in Palestine
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Howard Zinn, activist and author
• Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh
• Peter Forbes, Trust for the Public Lands founder, who negotiated Walden Pond preservation
• Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter
• Naomi Drew, author and Peaceful Parenting director
• Colman McCarthy, former Washington Post columnist, Center for Teaching Peace director
• Kimmie Weeks, African refuge who fled Liberia as a child, now a peacemaker for UNESCO, United Nations, and other organizations
• Amber Amundson, founder of Peaceful Tomorrows, husband was killed Sept. 11 at Pentagon
• Leah Green, founder of Compassionate Listening Project, Marion Parmagan, Esther Sadeh, who use compassionate listening in Middle East and elsewhere to ease tensions
• Rick Lunnon, prominent Colorado businessman, who dropped a contentious lawsuit and used the money for peacemaking and humanitarian work in Thailand
• Susan Collin Marks, journalist, peacemaker who helped dismantle apartheid. Co-director of Search for Common Ground
• Michael Terrien, Playing for Peace director, a community-based peace organization successfully easing ethnic tensions in communities in India, South Africa, Guatemala, Middle East and United States
• Mike Mahoney, school counselor in New Jersey and Oregon, who has dramatically reduced school violence with mediation
• Julie Goschalk, the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Auschwitz, she conducts support groups and brings understanding and forgiveness among Jews and Germans
• Life coaches Martha Beck, Tom Heuerman, and Roger Haeske
• Kathy Kenney, yoga instructor, Fort Collins, Colorado
• Anne Benson, founder of Neighbors for Peace, Minneapolis, Minn.
• Natalie Wiesaltier, founder, Hello Shalom-HelloSalaam hotline in Middle East, which connects Palestinians and Israelis
• Margueritte Meier, Mile of Peace, a mile-long mural of children’s visions of peace
• John Paul Lederach, peacebuilding practitioner, trainer, and professor at Eastern Mennonite University and Notre Dame
• Louise Diamond, global peacemaker, author of The Courage for Peace, and founder, with John McDonald, of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, which eases regional and ethnic conflicts around world
• Kenny Moore, ombudsman who eases conflict at KeySpan Energy and author
• Buddhist authors Lama Surya Das and Pema Chodren
• Sarah Oelberg, Unitarian minister
• Cathy Eldon, whose son, a journalist, was killed by rebels in Somalia
• Bob Wicklund, conflict-mediation specialist
• Michael Nagler, University of California-Berkeley professor and author of Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
• Elissa Tovena, founder, Perspectives on Peacemaking
• Tajae Gaynor, former inner-city street kid now school-mediator
• Takaski “Thomas” Tanemori, who learned how to forgive after he lost his whole family at Hiroshima and directs the Silkworm Peace Institute
• Mark Gorkin, Stress Doc Enterprises
• Rev Noel McInnis