Ute Bock was an Austrian philanthropist, educator and the founder of ‘Refugee Project Ute Bock’. She is known as ‘Mama Bock’ because of her efforts for helping refugees and asylum seekers. She was born in 1942 in Linz, Upper Austria and died in 2018 in Vienna.

Thích Nhất Hạnh is a peace activist, Buddhist Monk, poet, writer and founder of Plum Village Tradition from Vietnam. He was born in central Vietnam in 1926 and became a novice monk in 1942, when he was 16 year old.

Sadako Sasaki was two years old when Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Sasaki’s home was located just one mile from ground zero. When the bomb hit, Sadako was blown out of her window.

Known as the ‘Woman of Action’, Sima Samar has been spending tireless efforts for promoting peace, education and human rights in Afghanistan since 1980s. She is a member of the High Level-Panel on Internal Displacement of the United Nations. She was serving as the Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) for several years.

Prof. John Galtung was born in 1930 in Oslo, Norway. He completed his PhDs in Mathematics and in Sociology at the University of Oslo and has received 10 honorary PhD degrees from different university in the world.

Austrian novelist, Bertha von Suttner, is a well-known international peace activist. She was the first women to receive the Noble Peace Prize. Bertha was born in Prague (Austro-Hungarian Empire) in 1843. She studied music and languages.