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Women Peacemakers – A Global Selection ! James W. Gould1, PhD; Linn Gould2, MS, MPH; Steven G. Gilbert3, PhD, DABT; Elizabeth A. Gould, MLIS 1Scripps College, Claremont, CA; 2Just Health Action, Seattle, WA; 3Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders, Seattle, WA For more information or to download a free copy, and its interactive (clickable) at www.womeninpeace.org

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Maria Chapman born Emmeline Pankhurst born born Marie-Olympe de Gouges Vida Goldstein born Sarojini Naidu born Helena Blavatsky born Michi Kawai born Felicia Langer born Poland Olive Schreiner born S. Berta Lutz born Brazil Aug Weymouth, MA July 25, Manchester, England July Prague June 9, 1843. born France May 7, 1748. Australia April 13, 1869. Feb 13, 1879. Nonviolent Ukraine Aug 12, 1831. July 29, 1877. Dec 9, 1930. Human rights Africa March 24, 1855. 2, 1894. Leader of Brazilian 1806. Co-founded world’s 15, 1858. Founded Revolutionary Feminist politician; activist for Indian Founder of Internationalist; activist; Israeli attorney who , writer. suffrage and equality first nonviolent Radical suffragist Austrian Declaration opposed militarism, independence; Theosophy, a phil- pacifist; president defended Close friend of movements; society 1838; whose direct Society 1891; of the Rights , politician; poet; osophy of universal of Japan Peace Palestinian clients. ; One of four Editor abolitionist action inspired First female to of Women, 1791. nuclear arms. Known as "The brotherhood Society; “The ! Received Right women to sign journal The ! Gandhi; mother of win Nobel Peace Executed by Founding member of Nightingale 1875; profoundly greatest woman leader in Livelihood Award, advocate; UN Charter, Non-Resistant. three suffragists daughters. Prize, 1905. guillotine, 1793. WILPF*. of India”. influenced Gandhi. Japan”. 1990. opposed WW I. 1945.

Jane Addams born Sept 6, Emmeline Pethick-! Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin Eleanor May Moore born Anasuya Sarabhai Rosa Luxemburg born Wu Yi-Fang born China Jan Nawal El Saadawi born Nadine Gordimer born S. Minerva Bernardino born 1860. Quaker-raised. Lawrence born England born Netherlands Feb 9, born , Switzerland Australia March 10, 1875. “Motaben” born Nov 11, Poland March 5, 1871. 26, 1893. Biologist; Egypt Oct 27, 1931. Africa Nov 20, 1923. Seibo, Dominican Republic Principal founder Oct 21, 1867. 1854. First Dutch May 24, 1826. Pacifist and anti-nuclear 1885. Feminist; Gandhian Anti-militarist diplomat. First Psychiatrist; Awarded Nobel May 7, 1907. of Women's Founding woman to became Pioneer Swiss advocate ; WILPF labor organizer; revolutionary; female university feminist; North- Literature Prize, 1945: One of International Member of physician; feminist; pacifist; leader; author Fabian Socialist. opposed WW I. president in China, South Prize, 1991; early four women League for Peace & WILPF*; radical pacifist; co-founder of of “The Quest for ! Founded Textile Marxist critic of 1928-52; one of 2004; tented in opponent to sign Freedom (WILPF ); opposed WW I. helped organize international Peace”, 1949; Labour Soviet bureaucracy; four women to Tahrir Square, of Apartheid; UN Charter, , 1931. WILPF*. women's . Opposed WW I. Association, 1920. murdered 1919. sign UN Charter, 1945. 2011. Writer, books banned. 1945.

Emily Greene Balch born Virginia Woolf ! born Sweden Maria Montessori born Te Puea Herangi born New Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Alexandra Kollontai born Marii Hasegawa born near born Fatima Meer born S. Africa Janet Rosenberg Jagan Jamaica Plain, MA Jan 8, born London Jan 31, 1902. Founded Aug 31, 1870. Pioneer in Zealand Nov 9, Pandit born India Aug 18, Russia March 31, 1872. Hiroshima, Japan Sept 17, Ramallah, Palestine Oct 8, Aug 12, 1928. Anti- born Chicago, IL Oct 20, 1867. Called the Jan 25, 1882. Stockholm International peace research 1883. Maori 1900. Gandhian Soviet diplomat; credited 1918. Peace 1946. Palestinian peace apartheid activist; 1920. First “Improper Wrote feminist Peace Research and pedagogy; Pacifist leader; nonviolent with ending activist; called negotiator; leader and writer, female Bostonian”; pacifist Institute, 1966; lifelong pacifist; Opposed Maori resister. First Winter War “Gentle Woman poet; Mandela biography, president of WILPF* leader; classic – Shared Nobel antiwar and Wars; leader of woman president with Finland, of a Dangerous diplomat; Reestablished Guyana; awarded Nobel Three ! Peace Prize, militarism activist. to of UN General 1940; opposed Kind”; awarded professor. Gandhi's Phoenix Awarded Peace Prize, 1946. Guineas, 1938. 1982. conscription in WW I. Assembly, 1953. . Niwano Peace Prize, 1996. Settlement, 1979. Gandhi Peace Prize, 1997.

Virginia Gildersleeve born Kathleen Lonsdale born Sophie Scholl born Magda Grilli Trocmé born Alice Wedega born Papua Anuradha Koirala born Rosika Schwimmer born Carmel Budiardjo born born Iran June born Estela Barnes De Carlotto Oct 3, 1877. Ireland Jan 28, Forchtenberg, Bavaria May Italy Nov 2, 1901. French New Guinea Aug 20, 1905. Okhaldhunga, Nepal April Budapest Sept 11, 1877. London June 18, 1925. 21, 1947. Human & children Oct 29, 1938. born Argentina Oct 22, Historian; dean 1903. Physicist; 9, 1921. Leader nonviolent Peacemaker 14, 1949. Hungarian Human rights rights activist and Led campaign to end civil 1930. Received UN of Barnard Quaker. of White Rose activist whose at home and in Founded Internationalist; Activist. Founded crusader for war and violence Human Rights College; founder President of nonviolent efforts helped N. Ireland; first Maiti (Mother's pacifist; World TAPOL; Received justice. Awarded against women; Award, 2003; of UN and WILPF* and resistance to save 3,000 woman legislator; home) to rescue Peace Prize, Right Livelihood Nobel Peace shared Nobel president of UNESCO; drafted Pugwash Hitler (executed during conscientious girls / victims of 1937; Nobel Peace Award, 1995. Prize, 2003. Peace Prize, Grandmothers Preamble of UN Charter. Conference. by guillotine 1943). WW II. objector. sex trafficking, 1993. Prize nominee, 1947. 2011. of the Plaza de Mayo.

Jeannette Rankin born Peggy Duff born England Hildegard Goss-Mayr born Simone de Beauvoir born born Radhika Coomaraswamy Emmy Arnold born Riga, Sadako Ogata born Tokyo Roza Otunbayeva born Wangari Muta Maathai Rosario Green Macias! June 11, 1880. Feb 8, 1910. Peace Vienna, Austria Jan 22, Paris, France Jan 9, 1908. Australia Aug 7, 1938. born Sept 17, Latvia Dec 25, 1884. Sept 16, 1927. 10 years UN USSR (now Kyrgyzstan) born Kenya April 1, 1940. Born Mexico City, March 31, Lifelong pacifist; organizer; 1930. Nonviolence Feminist; existentialist Physician; led Sept 17,1953. Founder Refugee Commissioner. Aug 23, 1950. Founded Green Belt 1941. Diplomat and first woman helped activist; honorary Philosopher. international Human rights of nonviolent Received Ramon Professor Movement economist. First elected to US establish CND president of Led opposition opposition to expert; UN Special Bruderhof Magsaysay of Philosophy; dedicated to woman foreign Congress, 1916. (Campaign International to wars in nuclear tests; Envoy on children in war; Community, Award,1997; leader of Kyrgyz planting trees; minister; UN Voted against both World for Nuclear Fellowship of Algeria & Women's Action UN Rapporteur on Violence 1920. Indira Gandhi Tulip Revolution Awarded Nobel Assistant Wars. ), 1957. Reconciliation. Vietnam. for against Women, 1994-2003. Prize, 2001. 2005. Peace Prize, 2004. Secretary Gen. ! Betty Williams born Gro Harlem Brundtland Simone Weil born France Amelia Rokotuivuna born Irene Khan born , of Calcutta Leticia Ramos-Shahani Lisa Halaby aka Queen born Bianca Jagger born born Oct 11, 1884. Belfast, N. Ireland May 22, born Norway April 20, 1939. Feb 3, 1909. Philosopher Fiji Aug 7, 1941. Feminist; Dec 24, 1956. born Albania Aug 26, 1910. born Philippines Sept 30, Noor of Jordan born Zimbabwe April 1, 1962. Nicaragua May 2, 1945. Drafter of UN 1943. Co- Three times prime and social fought for Human rights Catholic nun; 1929. Diplomat. UN Washington DC Aug 23, Founded women's Human rights Human Rights founded the minister of activist; peace, justice activist. Secretary awarded First Assistant Secretary 1951. Led effort to advocacy org activist Declaration; Community for Norway (1981, advocate of and equality; General of Templeton General for Social abolishing nuclear WOZA (Women of Inspired by chair of UN Peace People; 1986-89, 1990-96); 1982 nonviolence; protested for Amnesty Int., 2001- Prize, 1972; Development and weapons and Zimbabwe Arise), Gandhi; Commission on Human Shared Nobel UN Special Envoy self-identified nuclear free 09; awarded Nobel Peace Humanitarian international 2003; awarded Alternative Rights; US delegate to UN. Peace Prize,’76. for Climate Change, 2007-. anarchist. Pacific. , 2006. Prize, 1979. Affairs, 1981-86. landmine campaign Ginetta Sagan Fund prize. .

Winona LaDuke born Aug Mairead Corrigan Maguire Petra Kelly born Bavaria Carla Del Ponte born Helen Clark born New Taslima Nasrin born East Melina Mercouri born born Tawakul Karman born Taiz, born Michelle Bachelet born 18, 1959. Member Native born Belfast, N. Ireland Jan Nov 29, 1947. Switzerland Feb 9, Zealand Feb 26, 1950. Aug 25, 1962. Greece Oct 18, 1920. Anti- Burma June 19, 1945. Yemen Feb 7, 1979. Liberia Feb 1, 1972. Chile Sept 29, 1951. First American, 27, 1944. Co- Founding member 1947. Swiss Leader of peace Bangladeshi militarist; leader Pro-democracy Nonviolent leader Nonviolent female president Anishinaabeg founded the German Green Attorney General movement; Author; physician; resistance activist. Placed of Yemeni Arab activist; of Chile 2006-10; people; Green Community for Party, 1979; 1994-99; promoted nuclear human rights to military junta; under house Spring, 2011. peacemaker in Head of UN Party Vice- Peace People; opposed nuclear prosecutor of UN free zone; Three activist; UNESCO co-founder of arrest for 15 years; awarded Shared Nobel Liberian civil Gender Equality; Presidential Shared Nobel weapons and ; International Criminal term Prime Minister of New prize for tolerance Amnesty Nobel Peace Prize, Peace Prize, 2011. war; shared imprisoned Candidate, 1996 & 2000. Peace Prize,1976. received Right Livelihood Tribunals, 1999-2007. Zealand, 1999-2008. and nonviolence, 2004. International. 1991, Nehru Award, 1992. Nobel Peace Prize, 2011. and tortured by Pinochet. Award, 1982.

Abbreviations: WILPF (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom); UNESCO ( Educational, Scientific,and Cultural Organization); TAPOL means 'political prisoner' in Indonesian, it "promotes human rights, peace, and democracy in Indonesia