Peacemakers Honor Roll
submitted by Ray Jones (5th installment)
For eminent distinction in character, valor, integrity, fortitude and altruism, these exemplary people are worthy of recognition for their convictions, determination, higher principles and intelligence with perseverance in conscience and dignity.–RJ
Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) Organizer, protester, advocate of non-violent Indian independence mvmt.
Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) – organized women’s peace movement, Liberia, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) – US anti-war protester, writer
Arthur Gish (1939–2010) – US public speaker and peace activist
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – Russian/US activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I
Paul Goodman (1911-1972) – writer, social critic, anarchist philosopher and public intellectual
Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931) – Russian anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) – US anti-war protester and musician, inspiration
Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935) – current Dalai Lama, peace advocate
Otto Hahn (1879–1968) – German, discoved nuclear fission, anti-nuclear weapons and testing advocate
Thích Nhat Hanh (born 1926) – Vietnamese monk, pacifist and advocate of nonviolence
Keir Hardie (1856–1915) – Scottish socialist, co-founder of Independent Labour Party and Labour Party
Václav Havel (1936–2011) – Czech nonviolent writer, poet, and politician
Brian Haw (1949–2011) – British activist, initiated Parliament Square Peace Campaign
Wilson A. Head (1914–1993) – US/Canadian sociologist, activist
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) –prof at Jewish Theological Seminary, civil rights and peace activist
Sidney Hinkes (1925–2006) – pacifist, priest in the Church of England
Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926) – British welfare campaigner
Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989) – US anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of Yippies
Margaret Holmes, AM, (1909–2009) – Australian activist vs. Vietnam War, Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
Nobuto Hosaka (born 1955) mayor of Setagaya, won on an anti-nuclear platform after Fukushima.
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – writer, advocate, organizer, initiated Mother’s Day for Peace
Emrys Hughes (1894-1969) – Welsh socialist member of Parliament, where he was an outspoken pacifist
Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958) – US Quaker activist, in leadership of WILPF in US
John Hume (born 1937) – Irish Nobel Peace Prize and Gandhi Peace Prize recipient
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) – anti-war and anti-conflict writer
