Craig heard about a Pakistani child called Iqbal Masih who worked in a carpet factory since the age of four, and was murdered at age 12 after he escaped from slavery. Iqbal’s story inspired the twelve-year-old Craig along with his school classmates to create the Free the Children organization in 1995.

Emily Greene Balch was an American sociologist, economist, pacifist, and the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize winner. She was born in 1867 in Boston. She finished her college in 1889, then through a fellowship program, she studied economics in Paris, where she wrote Public Assistance of the Poor in France in 1893. She finished her formal studies at Harvard University, Chicago University and Berlin University.

Auguste Beernaert was a Belgian statesman, lawyer and a member of the International Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague who won the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in 1829 in Ostend, Belgium and died in 1912 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was homeschooled by his mother and later attended the University of Louvain in 1846.

Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan became the leader of the Aguaruna people of Peru. He has devoted his entire life to educating the indigenous people of the Amazon Basin so that they may maintain their human, civil, economic, and political rights. He describes how, “The forest is not a resource for us, it is the only place for us to live.”

Marilyn Kerins Angelucci is an American peace activist and educator. Currently, she is serving as the Secretary General of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification -Middle East. She was born in the United States in 1953 and has completed her bachelor and master’s degree in education at Rhode Island College and the State University of New York respectively.

Aristide Briand was the 55th Prime Minister of France and the winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1926 due to his efforts for international cooperation and focusing on reconciliation politics during the war. He served as the Prime Minister of France eleven terms.

Meenakshi Gopinath is a social activist, educationalist and writer from India. She completed her bachelor’s degree in political science at Lay Shri Ram College for Women, master’s degree at Massachusetts University, doctoral degree at The University of Delhi and post-doctoral research at Georgetown University.

Associate Professor Jake Lynch is the chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. For ten years, he was a board member of the Sydney Peace and for two years, he acted as Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association.

Fredrik Bajer was a Danish writer, teacher, pacifist, and the cowinner of the 1908 Noble Peace Prize. He was born in 1837 in Vester Egede, Denmark and died in 1922 in Copenhagen. He attended the Sorø Academy in 1848 but shortly before graduating, he left the school and started Military School in Copenhagen.

Alva Myrdal was a Swedish politician, leader of disarmament movement, and the winner of the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize. She was born in 1902 in Uppsala and completed her bachelor’s degree in Science in 1924 and got married. In 1929, together with her husband, she traveled to the US and continued her studies with focus on psychology, education, and sociology.

Aziz Royesh is a school teacher and a social activist from Afghanistan. In 2015, he was selected one of the ten top teachers of the year in the world by Varkey Foundation based in UK. He was accredited as the “Afghanistan’s Hero of Education” in the EU calendar of 2016 and won the membership of the International Association for College Admission Counseling in 2017.

Peter Haider is a peace activist and the President of Universal Peace Federation (UPF) Austria. He was born in 1954 in Austria and has studied Korean culture and language in South Korea. In 1984 he established the “Forum Religion und Weltgestaltung” in order to provide a forum for dialogue and understanding between different religions.

Klas Pontus Arnoldson was a Swedish politician, author, peace activist, and a co-winner of the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in 1844 in Gothenburg and died in 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Hak Ja Han Moon is a Korean religious leader who is known among his followers as ‘Mother Moon’. She is the co-founder of Unification movement, which later changed to Family Federation for World Peace (FFWPU) and Universal Peace Federation (UPF), and founder of Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP). Han was born in 1943 in North Korea.

Louis Renault was a French jurist, educator, and winner of the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in 1843 in Autun and died in 1918 in Barbizon, France. He had and extraordinary learning mind and finished his entire education levels with great honors.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist and the 1907 Noble Peace Prize winner. He was born in 1833 in Milan, Italy and died in 1918. He took part in an uprising against Austrian rule, ‘Five Days of Milan’, when he was 15 years old. Later he joined Italian military academic and took part in fight against Austrians in 1959-60 and 1866.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban.

Mother Teresa is the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, and she considered as one of the 20th century’s greatest humanitarians. She was born in an Albanian family in 1910 in Skopje, which is currently the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.