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Individuals Honored Buildup on Pacific Island,” Democracy Nawa, 06/2007; “A Storm of Militariza- Now!, 10/09/2009 protests against the Iraq war, Spokane, for Peace after Testing Nukes, Busan, WA, 03/2003. Korea, 11/2006; “The Beauty Beyond Wrote afterword for The Bases of Em- Brutality,” International Conference for pire: The Global Struggle against U.S. the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, 7 Military Posts, 03/2009. Quito, Ecuador, 03/2007; “We Reach Interview, “Guam Residents Organize for You,” Asian Peace Alliance of Japan’s Against US Plans for $15B Military 62nd Anniversary of the Battle of Oki- Individuals Honored Buildup on Pacific Island,” Democracy nawa, 06/2007; “A Storm of Militariza- Now!, 10/09/2009. tion,” Seventh Session of the United Helped organize conferences on Nations Permanent Forum on Indige- The US Peace Registry honors nearly 200 Americans who work for peace and who demilitarization, including the Inter- nous Issues, 04/2008; national speaking are role models for a broad range of peace and antiwar actions and activities. national Women’s Network Against tour, Australia, 06/2008; “Confronting Militarism’s 7th International Women’s Empire from the Colonial Periphery,” Conference, 11/2009. Watson Institute for International DAVID ADAMS, PhD, a resident of Webmaster, Culture of Peace Produced educational materials from and Public Affairs, Brown University, Branford, CT, promotes the Global Information site http://culture-of- technical documents created by the U.S. Providence, RI, 10/2009; “Of Mice, Movement for a Culture of Peace, peace.info, and World Report on the Department of Defense concerning the Not Men,” Keynote, National Associa- called for by the UN General Assembly Culture of Peace http://decade-culture- military buildup of Guam, submit- tion of Social Workers (Guam Chapter), in its Resolution A/53/243. mail@ of-peace.org, 2002-2019. ted comments as part of the National Tumon, GU, 03/2011; “Sharing the decade-culture-of-peace.org https:// Founder and President, Culture of Environmental Policy Act process, and Sky: On War, Peace and Solidarity,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Adams_ Peace News Network, 2002-2020. facilitated dialogue between demil- Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, (peace_activist) itarization activists in Guam, Hawaii, 11/2012; “Reimagining the Insular,” Organizer, Seville Statement on and Okinawa, 11/2009-01/2010. Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Violence, 1986. JULIAN AGUON Sued the U.S. Department of Defense 03/2013; and “The Militarization of Organizer of the Peoples Peace Appeal, is an indigenous over the military buildup of Guam, Memory,” Asian-Pacific Law & Policy 1986. human rights delaying the relocation of U.S. Marines Journal’s Bombs in Paradise Sympo- Co-founder, Connecticut Labor for lawyer and writer from Okinawa to Guam and forcing the sium, William S. Richardson School of Peace,1988. from Guam who U.S. military to conduct additional envi- Law, Honolulu, HI, 04/2015. Consultant for the project of the fights against the ronmental impact assessments, 11/2010. Advised former President of the Re- UNESCO Culture of Peace Program, militarization of his Awarded fellowship from Petra Leaders public of the Marshall Islands, whose 1992-1993. homeland and the for Justice in recognition of his work for administration created the National Nu- Staff, UNESCO Culture of Peace wider Asia-Pacific region, and promotes advocating to end the U.S. militarization clear Commission, an agency charged Program responsible for national the leadership of indigenous people in of Guam, 11/2011. with coordinating restorative justice programs in El Salvador, Mozambique peace building. [email protected] Member, We Are Guåhan, 11/2009- efforts (arising from the U.S. Nuclear and Russia, 1994-1997. www.facebook.com/julianaguonesq @ 01/2014. Testing Program) and promoting the Director, United Nations International julian_aguon Delivered speeches including “We are elimination of nuclear weapons, 2016- Year for the Culture of Peace, 1998-2001. Sang songs at peace rallies and anti- Called,” School of the Americas Protest, 2017. Author of books including Psychology war demonstrations, including at the Fort Benning, Columbus, GA, 11/2002; Wrote op-ed article “When You Live for Peace Activists, 1985; The American School of the Americas protest, Fort “What Can Be Saved,” International In a Colony, You are Easy Meat: Guam Peace Movements, 1986; The History of Benning, Columbus, GA, 11/2002; at Gathering of Peace and Justice Activists, In the Crosshairs of Warmongering,” In the Culture of War, 2009; and Embrace protests against the threatened U.S. in- Okinawa, Japan, 04/2006; “The Lamb These Times, 08/21/2017. the Fire: Plant the Seeds for a Culture of vasion of Iraq, Spokane, WA, 01/2003; Tied Closest,” Hankyoreh Founda- Trained youth participants in interna- Peace, 2015. and at Peace and Justice Action League tion’s International Symposium: Trying tional human rights mechanisms for ad- 88 89 ENDING U.S. WARS INDIVIDUALS HONORED vancing the rights of indigenous peoples Co-organizer, Korean Americans Negotiated a women’s peace walk campaign, 2019. and other vulnerable groups, 06/2020. United for Peace, 2003-2004. across the DMZ, North Korea, 2014, TV and radio interviews including Authored books including Just Left Traveled to North Korea eight times and planned logistics for DMZ appearances on Al Jazeera, Anderson of the Setting Sun, Blue Ocean Press, with peace and humanitarian aid crossing and events, North Korea, Cooper’s 360, BBC, NBC Today Show, 02/2006; The Fire This Time: Essays delegation and addressed the Republic 03/2015-04/2015. MSNBC AM Joy, and NPR; “‘The on Life under U.S. Occupation, Blue of Korea National Human Rights Organized an international delegation Korean People Want Peace’: Christine Ocean Press, 08/2006; What We Bury Commission on the need for peace and of 30 women peacemakers from Ahn on Trump Walking Away from N. at Night: Disposable Humanity, Blue to improve human rights, 2004. 15 countries; held women’s peace Korea Nuclear Talks,” Democracy Now!, Ocean Press, 02/2008; and The Prop- Awards including Rising Peace Maker, symposia in Pyongyang, North 02/28/2019, and “Christine Ahn on the erties of Perpetual Light, University of Agape Foundation, 10/2005. Korea, and later in Seoul, South Korea; prospects for peace in Korea,” Wider Guam Press, 03/2021. International Peace and Solidarity marched and crossed demilitarized View Radio PodBean, 03/19/2019. Co-founded Guåhan Coalition for Director, Women of Color Resource zone (DMZ) with delegation and Launched Korea Peace Now! Peace and Justice, 2006-2021. Center, 2003-2006. 10,000 Korean women, 05/2015. transnational feminist campaign, Founded Blue Ocean Law, which works Co-founder, Korea Policy Institute, Led an international women’s 03/2019. to address the legacies of nuclear testing 2006. delegation to challenge the U.S. and Delegate, Korea Peace Now! and arrest the spread of militarization in Co-led international delegation to Canadian governments for convening Women Mobilizing to End the War, the region, 10/2014-2021. Pyeongtaek, South Korea to protest an anti-Korea, pro-war conference, a global coalition of women’s peace Advisory Council Member, Progres- the expansion of U.S. Army Camp Vancouver, Canada, 01/2018. organizations, 02/2019-04/2019. sive International, 05/2020-2021. Humphreys, which was displacing Lectures including “Preventing War: Keynote speaker at universities Filed a submission “Save Ritidian” Korean rice farmers, 2006. Crisis and Opportunity with North including Harvard University, Stanford to the United Nations on behalf of the Co-produced “Fashion Resistance to Korea,” Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, University, University of California at Guam-based group Prutehi Litekyan, Militarism,” an educational project that Santa Barbara, CA, 03/07/2018 and Berkeley, Pomona College, Wellesley resulting in a signed, joint allegation let- created outfits to deconstruct militarism World Beyond War No War Conference, College, the University of Toronto, and ter from three UN Special Rapporteurs in everyday life, Oakland, CA, Toronto, Canada, 9/21/2018. Rotary International, 2002-2020. expressing their concerns over the U.S. 05/2005; and an anti-military fashion Led an international women’s Member, War Times Collective, 2004- military buildup of Guam, 01/2021. show produced in over a dozen cities delegation of 30 peacemakers to support 2020. Nominated for US Peace Prize, US around the world, including for the North and South Korea’s peace-building Columnist, Foreign Policy in Focus, Peace Memorial Foundation, 2021. “Security Without Empire” conference, process, Seoul, Korea, 05/2018. Institute for Policy Studies, 2006-2020. Washington, DC, 02/28/2009. Co-led a Northeast Asia Women Peace Wrote articles and op-eds including Launched (with others) the Women and Security Roundtable in Beijing, “Sixty Years of Failed Sanctions,” CHRISTINE Dismantling Militarism initiative at the China, with women peacemakers from Foreign Policy In Focus, 08/21/2010; AHN, MPP Global Fund for Women, 2010. North Korea, South Korea, China, “Make 1325 Real for Women’s (Georgetown Co-founder, Global Campaign to Save Russia, Japan, United States, and Peace and Security,” Ms. Magazine, University), lives in Jeju Island; traveled to Gangjeong Canada, 12/2-12/4/2018. 11/08/2010; “Bring War Dollars Home Honolulu, HI, and village (on Jeju Island) to protest the Addressed U.S. Congress, the United By Closing Down Bases,” Foreign Policy works to end the construction of a U.S./Republic of Nations, the National Human Rights In Focus, 03/31/2011; “Unwanted Korean War, reunite Korea naval base, South Korea, 2011. Commission in South Korea, and Missiles for a Korean Island,” New York families, and ensure Co-founder and Steering Committee Canadian Parliament, 2004-2019. Times, 08/05/2011; “Why is North women’s leadership in peace building. member, National Campaign to End Organized peace and humanitarian aid Korea willing to deal on nukes?,” www.womencrossdmz.org/christine-ahn the Korean War, 2009-2012. delegations to both North and South CNN, 03/02/2012; “After 60 Years [email protected] www.
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