Hague Appeal for Peace

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Hague Appeal for Peace

ORGANIZATION

Board of Directors as of October 2006: President Cora Weiss, Vice President Margaret Melkonian, Treasurer George F. Saddler, Secretary Phon van den Biesen, Mary-Wynne Ashford, Adele Simmons, Jennifer Allen Simons, William Pace, Herman Spanjaard, Colin Archer, Peter Weiss.

International Advisory Board as of October 2006: Karamat Ali, Walden Bello, Alejandro Bendana, Humberto Brown, Kevin P. Clements, Johnathan Dean, Irina Grushevaya, Masahida Ota, Admiral Ramu Ramdas, Michael Renner.

Honorary Committee as of October 2006: Norman Borlaug, Mairead Corrigan, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Hans Koschnik, Dalai Lama, Bernard Lown, Graca Machel, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Queen Noor, Shimon Peres, José Ramos Horta, Joseph Rotblat, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Aung San Suu Kyi, Maj-Britt Theorin, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Jody Williams, Christa Wolf.

Official Website:
http://www.haguepeace.org/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Norman Borlaug Scientist 25-Mar-1914 12-Sep-2009 Engineered disease-resistant wheat

Mairead Corrigan Activist 27-Jan-1944 Nobel Prize recipient

Dalai Lama Religion 6-Jul-1935 14th incarnation of the Dalai Lama

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Activist 26-Nov-1931 Nobel Peace Prize recipient

José Ramos Horta Politician 26-Dec-1949 President of East Timor, Nobel laureate

Aung San Suu Kyi Activist 19-Jun-1945 Burmese activist, Nobel Prize recipient

Bernard Lown Doctor 7-Jun-1921 Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist

Rigoberta Menchú Tum Activist 9-Jan-1959 Political activist, Nobel Prize recipient

Queen Noor Royalty 23-Aug-1951 Queen of Jordan

Shimon Peres Head of State 16-Aug-1923 President of Israel

Joseph Rotblat Physicist 4-Nov-1908 31-Aug-2005 Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist

Oscar Arias Sanchez Head of State 13-Sep-1941 President of Costa Rica

Desmond Tutu Religion 7-Oct-1931 Archbishop of Cape Town

Cora Weiss Activist ? Samuel Rubin Foundation

Elie Wiesel Activist 30-Sep-1928 Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist

Jody Williams Activist 9-Oct-1950 Anti-landmine activist

Christa Wolf Novelist 18-Mar-1929 1-Dec-2011 Divided Heaven

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