Category Archives : 1000.United Kingdom


Kathy Galloway (United Kingdom)

————————————— Reverend Dr Kathy Galloway- update for PeaceWomen across the Globe, January 2016   Kathy Galloway was leader of the Iona Community until 2009 when, after seven years’ service, she left to become Head of Christian Aid Scotland. The main focus of her work since then has been humanitarian in nature, both in emergency and […]


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Diana Francis (United Kingdom)

  Update 18 December 2015 (agreed with her) „I am a radical peacenik and peace professional.“ The ten years since 2005 have been full and demanding ones for Diana Francis (http://www.dianafrancis.info/ ). In addition to writing two more books, as well as several articles for the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support (CCTS), she has been […]


Patricia Gaffney (United Kingdom)

  ———————————– Update Patricia Gaffney, February 2016 Key to Pat Gaffney’s work over the last ten years has been addressing the rolling „war on terror“ and its implications for the world we are living in. She has been doing this through the global and national civil society peace groups that make up Pax Christi.  This […]

Patricia Gaffney (United Kingdom)

Tenzin Palmo (United Kingdom)

Tenzin Palmo (United Kingdom)

“This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.” Tenzin Palmo was born in 1943 as Diane Perry and was raised in London. At the age of 18, while still […]


Bernadette McAliskey (United Kingdom)

“Many people who have come through 30 years of struggle have found themselves isolated, disowned at the most personal level. The post revolutionary period has no time for enlightened criticism!” Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born 1947) was a student at Queen‘s University, Belfast, when the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland took to the streets in […]


Anna Hoare (United Kingdom)

Anna Hoare (United Kingdom)

“We all share a common humanity that enables us to live and work together.” Sister Anna Hoare has been working for peace all her life. Her major achievement was the creation of the first Protestant and Catholic integrated school, Lagan College, in Northern Ireland. Today there are over 50 integrated schools in Northern Ireland, with […]


Jo Wilding (United Kingdom)

“What I wrote in Iraq was based on firsthand experience of talking to Iraqi people with whom I lived and worked. They informed me about their afflictions during 13 years of severe UN sanctions.” Originally motivated by political demonstrations, Jo set off to the Middle East to advocate peace and justice in Palestine, Israel and […]

Jo Wilding (United Kingdom)

Rebecca Johnson (United Kingdom)

Rebecca Johnson (United Kingdom)

“My passions are women and peace.” Rebecca Johnson is a feminist, peace activist and citizen diplomat, whose work on disarmament negotiations prompted government diplomats in 1996 to call her ‘civil society’s ambassador’. While living at the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp (1982-87), she co-founded the Aldermaston Women’s Camp(aign) in 1985, extending the resistance to US and […]


Jennifer Ingram (United Kingdom)

“When I commenced my work in Sri Lanka, with Quaker Peace & Service, the situation was so fraught that the word “peace” had a theoretical sense only.” Jennifer Carnelly Ingram’s life has been fostered by Quaker values, such as respect for all, unmitigated experience of God, simplicity of living, honesty, pacifism and struggle against injustice. […]