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3147 Samantha

She named her discovery in memory of the young American peace activist Samantha Smith.

Clear Brook, Virginia

Clear Brook drew national attention when resident and Quaker peace activist Tom Fox was kidnapped in Baghdad on November 25, 2005.

Endangered Planet Foundation

EPF Board of Directors and Advisors have included Earth Day Founder, Visionary and Peace Advocate, John McConnell, Joanne Tawfilis, a Bob Marley Peace Award winner and former United Nations executive, attorney Jonathan R. Ellowitz, and noted environmental author, Chris Prelitz.

John Patrick Kennedy

According to peace activist Maire Leadbeater, John Kennedy passed information on left-wing groups like the Philippines Solidarity Group to the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, the country's main domestic intelligence agency.

Jon Brooks

13 songs inspired by the lives of Canadians, Sen. Romeo Dallaire, Padre William Henry Davis, John McRae, Sgt. Tommy Prince, and James Loney to name a few.

Paul Salopek

Tomo Križnar - a peace activist also charged with espionage, passing information illegally, writing "false news," and entering Sudan without a visa, who also distributed 400 video cameras to the local ethnic Nuba civilians in order to help them collect the evidence of the (North) Sudan military's war crimes against them.

Social Democrats, USA

SDUSA members stated concerns about an exaggerated role of "middle-class" peace activists in the Democratic Party, particularly associated with the "New Politics" of Senator George McGovern, whose Presidential candidacy was viewed as an ongoing disaster for the Democratic Party and for the USA.


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Aqua regia

The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935.

Ava Lowery

Ava Lowery is an American peace activist and documentary filmmaker from Alabama who has created over 100 Flash-based animations denouncing the Iraq War, former United States President George W. Bush, policies of the Republican Party and several individual Republican politicians.

Congregation Mishkan Israel

The late peace activist Bruce M. Cohen served as rabbi of Mishkan Israel prior to founding Interns for Peace.

Donald Rooum

He held up a banner reading, "Lambrakis RIP", referring to a Greek MP and peace activist who had been murdered.

Father Berrigan

Philip Berrigan, American Catholic priest and peace activist, brother of Daniel

Henry Noel

Henry Martyn Noel (fl. 1940s), American peace activist in Allied-occupied Germany

If Israel Lost the War

Journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery at the time published in HaOlam HaZeh weekly an editorial strongly criticising the book, as well as a review in Life.

Kullmann

Olaf Kullmann (1892–1942), Norwegian naval officer and peace activist

Larry Northern

In August 2005 Northern was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after he drove his pickup truck through the Arlington West display of memorial crosses (each bearing the name of an American soldier killed in Iraq) that had been set up at Camp Casey, the protest site organized by peace activist Cindy Sheehan near the ranch of President George W. Bush near Crawford, Texas.

Margaret Holmes

Margaret Joan Holmes (née Read), AM (24 January 1909 – 10 September 2009) was an Australian peace activist, particularly during the Vietnam War and as part of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.

Nadja Halilbegovich

Halilbegovich became a popular speaker and peace activist, balancing her college schedule with speaking engagements at such events as the Global Young Leaders Conference in Washington D.C., the State of the World Forum in San Francisco and The Summit on Youth and Peace in Orlando with Desmond Tutu.

Nuclear Disarmament Party

The NDP was founded by a Canberra doctor and peace activist, Dr Michael Denborough, in response to the world political situation in the early 1980s, particularly the arms race between the United States under Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union.

Renate Riemeck

Renate Riemeck (October 4, 1920 in Breslau – May 12, 2003 in Alsbach-Hähnlein) was an historian and energetic peace activist who became known as former foster parent of the terrorist Ulrike Meinhof.

Ron Smith

Ronald Joseph Smith (1921–1995), New Zealand public servant, communist and peace activist

Scottish Left Review

Its current editorial committee consists of Scottish Green Party politician Mark Ballard, Liberal Democrat Moira Craig, Scottish Socialist Party co-spokesperson Colin Fox, academic and author Gregor Gall, peace activist Isobel Lindsay, Leigh Matthews, former Labour politician John McAllion, Robin McAlpine, Rector of the University of Edinburgh Peter McColl, and former MEP Henry McCubbin.

UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize

The two laureates in 1998 were the educator and peace activist Narayan Desai of India and the Joint Action Committee for Peoples Rights of Pakistan.

William F. Badè

He was a son of Japan scholar and peace activist Sidney Gulick and later served as professor of English and Dean of Arts and Sciences at San Diego State University.

ZaMirNET

This venture got the support of the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute, and US peace activist Eric Bachman, living in Europe since 1969, together with the Dutch peace activist Wam Kat (who wrote his daily "Zagreb Dairy" on Zamir), set up an electronic network between peace groups in the region.