Muzoon Almellehan is a Syrian activist and refugee who is known for her work to keep Syrian girls in school.

Emmanuel Jal is an artist and political activist campaigning against, among other things, the issue of child soldiers.
Born in 1980 in now South Sudan, soon his life was violently affected by the war around him.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian-born New Zealand pacifist, environmental activist, artist and architect. He was born on December 15, 1928 in Vienna. His father died when he was only three months old. His art education began after the World War II, when he enrolled in the Fine Arts Academy of Vienna in 1948.

Ferdinand Buisson was a French Nobel Peace Prize winner (1927), academic, pacifist and socialist politician. He was born in 1841 in Paris and died in 1932 in Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, France. He has completed his secondary education at the Lycee Condorcet and then studied philosophy.

Medea Benjamin is an American political activist, writer, cofounder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange. She was born in 1952 in Freeport, New York and got her master’s degree in public health from Colombia University and in economics from The New School.

Juan Manuel Santos, born August 10, 1951 in Bogotá, Colombia, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for his efforts to end the protracted war with the Marxist guerrilla organization the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia; “Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia”).

Franz Jagerstatter, born in Upper Austria in 1907, was raised by his grandmother and spent much of his childhood living in poverty. From 1927 to 1930, Jägerstätter worked in the iron ore industry during which he began to question his faith and the meaning of life.

Birsel Lemke, Turkish activist, politician and environmentalist, was born in 1950 in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied Political Science at Ankara University and in the United States. From 1975 to 1985, she lived in Germany. When she turned back to Turkey, she became a member of Green Party (Yesiller Partisi, 1987-1990 ).

Alfred Hermann Fried was a born in Vienna in 1864 but pursued most of his active journalistic career in Germany where he opened his own press in 1887. Fried’s philosophy was that of pacifism in which he opposed war and violence. He based many of his publications on this idea and was greatly influenced by Bertha von Suttner who sparked Fried’s interest in the peace movement.

January 5, 2020 marks the beginning of a 21-month centenary celebration of His Holiness Paramahamsa Yogananda’s arrival in America on the City of Sparta, the first steamer to set sail from India after World War 1. He came to Boston, Massachusetts, as a delegate from India to speak at the International Congress of Religious Liberals in 1920.

Nazim Hikmet Ran was a Turkish poet, co-founder of Peace Lovers Community and International Peace Prize laureate. He is considered to be the first modern Turkish poet and he is recognized as one of the greatest international poets of the twentieth century around the world.

Jody Williams is an American political and human rights activist who won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her campaigns to ban landmines. She was born in 1950 in in Vermont, United States. She got her master’s degree in International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in 1984 and a master’s degree in teaching English and Spanish form the School for International Training.

Tobias Asser was a Dutch lawyer and scholar who won the 1911 Noble Peace Prize due to his magnificent works in the field of private international law and initiation of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. He was born in Amsterdam in 1838 and died in 1913 in the Hague.

Betty Williams is an Irish peace activist, co-founder of Compute of Peace People, and the co-winner of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. She was born in 1943 in Northern Ireland. After completing her high school education, she stared working as an office receptionist. She had experienced religious tolerance with his Protestant father and Catholic mother from childhood.

Farhad Darya is a singer and a human rights activist from Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul Afghanistan. He was recognized as the National Goodwill Ambassador for Afghanistan by the United Nations Office for Drug and Crime.

Mairead Corrigan is an Irish peace activist, co-founder of Community of Peace People, and cowinner of the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize, with Betty Williams. She was born in 1944 in Northern Ireland and attended a private school until the ages of fourteen. Then started working until she could save money to enroll at Miss Gordons’ Commercial College for a one-year business classes.

Paul d’Estournelles de Constant was a French diplomat, politician, and internationalist who won the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in 1852 in La Freche, France and died in 1924 in Paris. He studied Law and Oriental Languages at the Lycée Louis le Grand in Paris.

Helen Caldicott is a Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general.