Endorsers

Nobel Peace Laureates
Heads of State
International
Religious groups
Africa
Asia
Europe
Pacific
United States

Nobel Peace Laureates

	Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
	His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tibet, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate " ...the moral force and personal discipline of non-violence, offer the best, most effective long term strategies to resolve conflicts. ... I wish your efforts every success. I am asking the Foundation for Universal Responsibility to work with you on this very worthy initiative."
	Jose Ramos Horta, East Timor, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
	Lech Wałęsa, Poland, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
	Mairead Maguire, Northern Ireland, Peace People, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate "What you are doing here is helping the very survival of the human family."
	Oscar Arias Sánchez, Former and present President, Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate "...I believe that your initiative has the potential to contribute in a meaningful way to the construction of a more peaceful world."
	Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Guatemala, Nobel Peace Price Laureate "The concept of the Global Nonviolent Peaceforce is an important contribution to the new millennium in that people working for peace, whose lives represent an ethical commitment towards that end, are an important part of the construction of a world where tolerance, respect, equality, improvement and justice become humanity's most essential values."
	Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town "Violence and death are not the last word, no, it is you who have the last word – you are God’s agents to bring union where there is discord, hope where there is fear, love where there is hate."Read complete statement
	International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

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Heads of State
Current and Former Heads of State

His Royal Highness Prince el Hassan bin Talal, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Lech Walesa, Poland, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Oscar Arias Sanchez, President, Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
"...I believe that your initiative has the potential to contribute in a meaningful way to the construction of a more peaceful world."

Jose Ramos Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Former President Olusebun Obasanjo, Nigeria
"Our world is in great need of new approaches to the resolution of conflicts. A civilian force such as that espoused in your proposal would represent a novel achievement and a most valuable contribution to the achievement of peace on our fragile planet."

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International

Charles Radcliffe, Vice-President, International Crisis Group,* Belgium
Coalition for Global Solidarity and Social Development, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen
Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau, Geneva
David Adams, Retired Director, UN International Year for the Culture of Peace
Franciscan Friars, Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation International Council
General Administration of the Marist Sisters
Hague Appeal for Peace
Hans Sinn, Co-Founder, Peace Brigades International*
Howard Wilson, Curative/Preventive Development Specialist, UN Volunteers*
ICL/Praxis for Peace, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen, Director and Satyagrahi
International Fellowship of Reconciliation
Jane Higgins, International Youth Parliament 2000*
Mennonite Central Committee International
Michael Beer, Nonviolence International
Muslim Peace Fellowship
Peter Ruhe, Founder-Chairperson, GandhiServe Foundation
Pierre Marchand, Chairman of the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for the Children
Rosalie Bertell, President, International Institute of Concern for Public Health*
SHALOM, School Sisters of Notre Dame, International Network for Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation, Rome and M. Margrit Hopfler, Representative of the European Branch of SHALOM
Tim Wallis, former International Secretary, Peace Brigades International*
Transcend, Johan Galtung
United Nations of Youth, Maria Kooijman Director
World Movement for Nonviolence, New York (Bawa Jain)

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Religious Groups

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Africa

Ade Adenekan, Pan-African Reconciliation Council, Lagos, Nigeria
Antoinette Dadjo, Ligue-Life (Section Beninoise),
Association Lutte Contre La Pauvrete, Joseph Migan, Chairperson, Benin
Ceasefire Campaign, South Africa
Centre de Reflexion et d’Action pour le Developmmement Durable, Benin
Ela Gandhi, Member of Parliament, Durban, South Africa
Elias Hbte Selassie, Senior Programme Officer & Regional Advisor, Life & Peace
Francoise Sossou-Agbaholou
Genevieve Boko Nadjo, Wildaf, Benin
Humanitas Fellowship of Reconciliation, Tanzania
Ibrahim Andrew Sesay, Caritas Makeni, the Catholic Agency for Development and Relief in Sierra Leone
Ifeanyi Onyenkpa, Nigeria
Institute, Horn of Africa Program
Mara Moholi, Lesotho Network for Conflict*
Masawuko Maruwacha, Zimbabwe
Mouvement National de Reconciliation du Benin, Toussaint Y. Honvou
National Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, Sierra Leone
National Secretariat, International Mission Appeal for Peace, Sierra Leone
National Society for Human Rights, Namibia
Nicolas S. Zannou, Monar, Benin
Pascaline Awliwa, Rifonga-Benin
Paulo Wangoola, Nabyama (President), Mpambo, The Afrikan Multiversity, Uganda
People for Peace in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Joseph Ngala, Director
Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, Director, Isis-Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WIC)
Tjeripo Kambita, National Society for Human Rights, Namibia
Union des Femmes Methodistes du Benin, Augustine Sai, Chairperson
Wajir Peace and Development Committee, Kenya
Yearn for Peace, Sierra Leone, Ismail Mansaray

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Asia

“Thikana” flat Owners Co-operative Society Ltd. Bangladesh
Akkapka CANV Manila, Philippines
Alliance for a United & Responsible World-Asia & Pacific Coordinator, India
Archdiocesan Center for Ecumenical and Interreligous Dialogue, Davao City
Asian Rainbow, Secretary: Deacon Mario van Loon, Philippines
Association of Nuns and Lay Women of Cambodia, Mrs. Huot Thavory
Bangabandhu Gabeshana& Pathagar Parishad (BGPP), Bangladesh
Bangabandhu Research Org. Bangladesh
Bangabandhu Srimte Sangsad, Bangladesh
Bangaladesh Diabetic Association
Bangladesh Campaign to Ban Landmines
Bashurhat Club, Bangladesh
Beena Sebastian, Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, India, President, The Cultural Academy for Peace and SAKHI: Women Rehabilitation and Family Counseling
Bishop Julio X Labayen, Quezon, Philippines
Buddhist Peace Fellowship of Bangladesh
Budi Setyamto, Nonviolent Activist, Indonesia
CANV (Committee for Nonviolent Action), Burma
Cardinal Jaime Sin, Archbishop of Manila
Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue, Davao City
Center for Security and Peace Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Centre for Conflict Management, Tatiana Markina, Project Coordinator, Kazakhstan
Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Muslim Scholar and Activist, Professor of Political Science, Director, Peace Information Center, Thammasat U, Bangkok
Chalida Tajaroensuk, Forum Asia, Bangkok*
Chang-Bok Lee, Member of the National Assembly, The Republic of Korea
Cultural Academy for Peace, India
Danilo M. Coronacion, Executive Director of Asian Political Parties, Philippines
Devi Prasad, Co-founder, World Peace Brigade and former International Secretary of War Resisters International
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Vinya Ariyarantne, Sarvodaya Movement, Sri Lanka
Dr. Anhari Achadi, Depugy Minister, Deptment of Health and Social Welfare, Indonesia
Dr. Chandra Muzaffa, President International Movement for a Just World
Dr. Hafid Abbas, Deputy Minister for Human Rights Socialization, Ministry of State for Human Rights in Indonesia
Dr. N. Radhakrishnan, Director, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti*India
Dr. Th. Sumartana, Institute for Inter-Faith Dialogue in Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Dr. Vithal Rajan, India, Chair, Governing Body, Confederation of Voluntary Organisations
Dra.Byarlina Gyamirti, MSc. Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Indonesia
ELSPO, Surakarta, “We Want Peace, Not Security”, Indonesia
Foundation and Global Foundation for Christian-Muslim Partnership
Hae Woo Yang, Nonviolent Peaceforce, Korea
Institute for Comprehensive Healthcare, Research & Rehabilitation of Addicts & Psycopaths, Bangladesh
Institute for Development and Communication, Chandigarh, India, Dr. Pramod, Kumar
International Network of Engaged Buddhists, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Jacob Vadakanchery, Founding organizer of the PBI country group in India
Joon Park, Seoul, Friends Meeting
Juvy P. Loyola* Technical Assistance Center for the Development of Rural and Urban Poor, Mindanao, Philippines
Khuankaew Ouyporn, Nonviolence Trainer, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Kim Chang Soo, Korea Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation
Leonardo N. Mercado, S.V.D., Episcopal Commission on Interrligious Dialogues, Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Manila
Lions Club of Dhaka Angels City, Bangladesh
Muktijoddah Jadhugar (Liberation War Museum), Bangladesh
Myongsook Han, Member of the National Assembly, Republic of Korea
Narayan Desai, Brigarnt, India
National Conference on Religion & Peace, Sri Lanka, Kingsley Rodrigo, Executive Director
Nirmala Deshpande, M.P. President, Akhil Bharat Rachanatmak Director, Association of Peoples of Asia and women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia
Phil Esmonde, RegionalProgram Representative, Oxfam, Sri Lanka
Pipal Tree, Bangalore, India
Rajiv Mehrotra, Director of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Foundation for Social Responsibility
Ram Jeet Verma, National League for Democracy, National Coalition Government Of Union of Burma (Exile)
Reu Galoy, OFM, St. Gregory the Great Friary, Philippines
Rey Magno Teves, Kusog Mindanaw, Strong Mindinao, United in Diversity, Philippines
Rolf Carriere, UNICEF* Representative, Indonesia
Santikaro Bhikkhu, International Network of Engaged Buddhists* (Thailand)
Shanti Sena for Peace, Life and Environment, Nhem Kim Teng, Director, Cambodia
Sheikh Hasina, Former Prime Minister, Bangladesh
Society for the Legal Rights(SLR), Bangladesh
Socio-Pastoral Institute, Manila, Philippines
Suganda Sanskritik Kendra, Bangladesh
Sulak Sivaraksa, Santi Pracha Dhamma Institute, Bangkok
The Good Law (Legal Justice Organisation), Korea
The Peacemakers’ Circle, Maria Teresa “Marites” G. Africa, Philippines
Thida C. Khus, SILAKA*, Cambodia
Tint Swe, Exicled member of the Burmese Parliament
UN Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, Bangladesh
"Your initiative for the Nonviolent Peaceforce has the potential of contributing to the United Nations Decade for a Culture of Peace in a big way."
Ven. Yos Hut Khemacaro, Fondation Bouddhique Khmere, Wat Langka, Phnom Penh
Volunteer Community Organisation, Mony Hunnhian, Cambodia
Walden Bello, Focus on Global South, Bangkok
Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, SE Asia Regional Coordinator, Nonviolence International, Siam
Young Kim, Peace Active Artists International, The Republic of Korea
Youth Approach for Development and Cooperation, Bangladesh
Youth Resource Development Program, Chea Muoy Kry, Director, Cambodia

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Americas (outside the United States)

Alvaro Ramirez Durini, Ecuador
Canadian Peace Alliance
Carl Stieren, Former Coordinator, Canadian Friends Service Committee*
Centre de Ressources Sur La Non-Violence, Montreal, Canada
Claudia Samayoa, Fundacion Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Guatemala
Coalition for Global Solidarity and Social Development
Eric Abitbol, Director, Peacemedia, Canada
Exeiu Olivez Lereuz, and Ariela Peralta Serpaj-Al, Uruguay
Freedom Quest International, Alberta, Canada
Jane Corz-Ellaydi, Hamilton, Ontario
Joseph F. Sullivan OFM Executive Director, Franciscan Office for Latin America
Maria Delgado, SIPAZ International Outreach Coordinator, Uruguay
Mitchell Gold, International Association of Educators for World Peace, Toronto, Canada
Mossallanejad, Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture*
Ottawa Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Canada
Phil McManus, Chair, SIPAZ (Servicio Internacional para la Paz) Chiapas, Mexico
Prairie Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Canada
Rafael Landereche, San Bartholome Human Rights Center, Chiapas, Mexico
SERPAJ, Servicio, Paz y Justicia, Mexico
SIPAZ Servicio Internaciona para la Paz (International office, Santa Cruz, Ca.)
Voice of Women for Peace, Canada
Women for Women in Afghanistan, Canada
Yolanda Araya Jara, Atecama Serpaj-Al, Costa Rica

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Europe

Alain Richard, O.F.M., Pace Bene, France
Albanian Family Planning Association, Valentina Leskaj
Alberto l’Abate, Berretti Bionchi,* Italy
Arno Truger, Austrian Center for Study of Peace and Conflict Resolution,
Beate Roggenbuck, German section Helsinki Citizens Assembly
Center for Nonviolent Conflict Management, Brugge, Belgium
Centro Francescano Internazionale Per Il Dialogo (CEFID), Fr. Maximmilian Mizzi,
Civilian Peace Teams, The Netherlands (BVTN)
Dick Boberg. UN Volunteers*
Ernst Guelcher, Disarmament Advisor to the European Parliament for Green Party
Eva Quistorp, Co-founder, Women for Peace, Germany
Francesco Tullio, Presdient of Centro Studi Difesa Civile in Italy*
Friedensbuero, Salzburg, Austria
Gajo Sekulic, Alternative Peace Initiative, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Gender Project for Bulgaria Foundation
Heide Schuetz, Chair, Women's Network for Peace, Germany
Helga Kandt, Women in Black “Frauen in Schwarz”Germany
Helga Tempel, Chair of the Forum Civil Peace Services,* Germany
Janne Poort - van Eeden, Coordinator, European Network for Civil Peace Services
John O’Donahue, Irish philosopher and best selling author
The people who are on the front lines for Nonviolent Peaceforce are there on behalf of our best selves. This is an action not costing less than everything. If we lost these people on the front lines, life would become a devouring feast. Part of what makes tragedy bearable is the beauty that comes forth-that’s NP
Jon McCourt, member, Management Committee, Peace and Reconciliation Commission,* Derry, Northern Ireland
Kevin Clements, Executive Director, International Alert, London, England*
Konrad Tempel, Chair of the Federation for Social Defense,*Germany
Lennart Parknas, Psychologists Against Nuclear Arms, For Peace & Ecological Balance, Sweden
Mai Britt Theorin, Stockholm, Member of European Parliament
Moeders voor vrede-Mothers for Peace, Jennie Vanlerberghe, President
OFM Conv. Delegate General for Ecumenism and for Interreligious Dialogue
Pat Patfoort, Trainer, Belgium
Peace Studies Belgrade, Tijana Mirovic
Rose Fernando, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Rome
Tatiana Markina, Project Co-ordinator, Centre for Conflict Management, Kazahhstan
Ted Herman, Consultant, Balkan Peace Studies Center, Skopje, Macedonia
The Iona Community, Scotland
Ueli Wildberger, Forum fuer Friedenserziehung, Switzerland
Ulrich Frey, Germany
VjekoslavSaje, Centre for Religious Dialogue, Bosnia

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Pacific

Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation, Aukland, New Zealand
The Conflict Resolution Network
World Healing Day, Bill Douglas, Founder

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United States

Alan and Judy Hoffman, Rochester, MN
Ambassador (ret.) Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists*
Association for Global New Thought, Barbara Fields Bernstein
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
Bill Douglas, Founder of World Healing Day
Bill Price, World Peacemakers
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Archdiocese of Detroit, MI*
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Captain Jasiu Milanowski, Michigan Peace Team, Holland, MI
Carl Kline, Nonviolent Alternatives, South Dakota
Charlotte Robyn Covelli-Hunt
Chester Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Lyle Jenks Meeting Secretary.
Church Women United, Northern CA/Nevada
Common Spirit, Steve Rohrbach, President and Edina Preucel
CONTACT: Conflict Transformation across Cultures (School for International Training, Vermont
Cora Weiss, Hague Appeal for Peace
Daniel Ellsberg, author of Pentagon Papers and Secrets
David c. Jehnsen, Institute for Human Rights & Responsibilities
David Dellinger, Montpelier, VT
Dennis Kucinich, Member of Congress
Denver/Boulder United Religions Initiative: Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Facilitator; Members: Walt and Nancy Kaesler and Lianna Costantino-Mead.
Dietrich Fischer, Co-director, TRANSCEND*
Don Mosley, Jubilee Partners* Georgia
Dr. Bernard LaFayette, University of Rhodes Island, Kingston, Rhodes Island*
Elise Boulding, Former Secretary General, International Peace Research Association
"I’m with you 100%."
Elizabeth Peterson, Montpelier, Vermont
Ellen Chulak (Ex. Dir.) Murray Grove Retreat and Conference Center
Erin Candless, Peace Publications
Federation of Zorastrian Associations of North America
Fellowship of Reconciliation USA
Franciscan Friars of Santa Barbara Province, Oakland , CA
Franciscan Friars, Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Council
Future WAVE, Inc. (Working for Alternatives to Violence through Entertainment)
Gene Stolzfus, Christian Peacemaker Teams*
George Lakey, Training for Change
George Willoughby, Friends Peace Team Project*
Glen Paige, Center for Global Nonviolence, Honolulu
Global Exchange, San Francisco
Global Peace Services, USA
Global People’s Assembly
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Washington, John McDonald
InterReligious Council of Central New York, Bob Hanson
Jack Kornfeld, Buddhist Teacher, Spirit Rock Meditaton Center
Jan Passion
Jean Martinson, ECLA Commission for Women*
Jewish Peace Fellowship
Jim and Marilyn Symons, Founders, Toward a Millennium of Compassion, Denver
Jim Satterwaite, New Call to Peacemaking
Jim Wallis, Sojourners
Joanna Macy, Buddhist activist, scholar and writer
"It’s obvious that we have to do it now. We’ve got the resources. The costliness of not doing it has grown."
John Lewis, Member of Congress
"This is an idea that is long overdue and needed. The way of violence is obsolete as a tool of solving problems."
John Paul Lederach, and Lisa Schirch Eastern Mennonite University
Joni Teeter and Rev. Kurt Kuhwald, Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Joseph J. Fahey, Manhattan College
Karuna Center for Peace Building, Massachusetts
Kathleen Kern, Christian Peace Teams*
Kay Lilndahl, President, Alliance for Spiritual Community
Kehilla Community Synagogue, Rabbi Burt Jacobson
Leadership Conference of Women Religious
Lt. Colonel Piers Wood, Retired U.S. Army*
Maria Mendez, Susan Lee Solar, L'Alianze de Abuelas Y Madres para el Futura Rita Mary Olszewski, (Grand/mothers Alliance for the Future), Texas
Mary B. Anderson, The Collaborative for Development Action, Inc.* Cambridge, MA
Media Friends Meeting, Media, PA
Michael Klare, Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College
Michael Nagler, Chair, Peace Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley*
Michael van Walt-van Praag , Peace Action Council*
Michigan Peace Team
Middle East Children’s Alliance, Berkeley, Cal.
Mindy Reiser, co-founder, Global Peace Service USA
Molly Rush, Thomas Merton Center*, Pittsburgh, PA
Nadine Bloch, Washington Action Group, Washington, DC
National Conference for Community and Justice, Sanford Cloud, Jr.
National Youth League
Navajo Working Group for Human Rights, James W. Zion
Noah West
Omni Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Patch Adams, Gezundheit Institute
Pax Christi, U.S.A.
PEACEWORKERS, San Francisco
Phil Esmonde, Director, Quaker House,*Fayetteville, NC
Philadelphia Ethical Society
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Thomas Jeavons, General Secretary
Phyllis and La Ramon Durham, Unitarian Universalists Against the Death Penalty *
Phyllis and Richard K. Taylor, Co-founders, Witness for Peace*
Presbyterians, USA
Providence Friends Meeting, Rich Conti, Peace and Social Action Committee
Quantum Leap 2000
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun Community
Raj Chablani
Ray Magee, Peace Workers
Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz, CA
Rev. Carroll Houle M.M. Representative of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns at the United Nations
Richard Barnet, Institute for Policy Studies*
Roland Chohen and Karma Dzong
Saints Francis and Therese Catholic Worker Community, Worchester, MA
San Francisco Zen Center
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Paul Province
Sisters of St. Joseph of Nazareth, Michigan
Springfield Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Elizabeth Fallon Clerk
State Representative Mike Jaros, Minnesota
Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco*
Summer Peace Building Institute, Eastern Mennonite University
Susan Leslie
Suzy Pearce, Civilian Based Defense Association*
Swarthmore Friends Meeting, Pennsylvannia
Texans for Peace
The Center for Community Renaissance, Leslie Gabriel, Executive Director
The Franciscan Federation of the United States
The Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs, Exec. Dir., United Religions Initiative,* San Francisco
Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, Kentucky
Veterans for Peace
World Healing Day, Bill Douglas Founder
Yes Youth for Environmental Sanity

Endorsers

* Organisation listed for identification purposes only.