PACIFIST HONOR ROLL
Commemoration and Congratulations
submitted by Ray Jones (first installment)
For celebrated eminence and distinction in character, valor, integrity, fortitude, and altruism these exemplary esteemed are worthy of tribute and recognition for their convictions and determination to higher principles and intelligence with perseverance in conscience and dignity.
A:
Hafsat Abiola (b. 1974) – Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist
Jane Addams (1860–1935) – American, national chairman Woman’s Peace Party, president Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Eqbal Ahmad (1933/34–1999) – Pakistani political scientist, activist
Martti Ahtisaari (born 1937) – former president of Finland, active in conflict resolution
Tadatoshi Akiba (born 1942) – Japanese pacifist and nuclear disarmament advocate, former mayor of Hiroshima
Widad Akrawi (born 1969) – Danish-Kurdish peace advocate, organizer
Stew Albert (1939–2006) – anti-Vietnam war activist, organizer
Ghassan Andoni (born 1956) – Palestinian physicist, Christian, advocate of non-violent resistance
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) – American poet, essayist, playwright, and civil rights activist.
Annot (1894-1981) – German artist, anti-war and anti-nuclear activist
José Argüelles (1939–2011) – New Age author
Suzanne Arms (born 1945) – anti-Vietnam war activist, draft counselor
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844–1916) – Swedish pacifist, Nobel peace laureate, founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) – French peace campaigner, coined the word “Pacifism”
Vittorio Arrigoni (1975–2011) – Italian reporter, anti-war activist
Arik Ascherman (born 1959) – Israeli-American rabbi and defender of Palestinian human rights.
Pat Arrowsmith (born 1930) – British author and peace campaigner
Uri Avnery (born 1923) – Israeli writer and founder of Gush Shalom
Mubarak Awad (born 1943) – Palestinian–American advocate of nonviolent resistance, founder of the Palestinian Centre for the Study of Nonviolence
Ali Abu Awwad (born 1972) – Palestinian peace activist from Beit Ummar, founder of al-Tariq (“the way”)
