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The US Peace Memorial Foundation awards the US Peace Prize to recognize and honor the most outstanding and prominent American antiwar leaders. These courageous people and organizations have publicly championed peaceful solutions to international conflicts involving the U.S. and/or opposed U.S. war(s), militarism, and interventions including invasion, occupation, production and distribution of weapons of mass destruction, use of weapons, threats of war, or other hostile actions that endanger peace. We celebrate these extraordinary role models to inspire other Americans to speak out against war and work for peace.

US Peace Prize final nominees for 2025 are: Gerry Condon, Joseph Gerson, National Priorities Project, and Timmon Wallis. You can read about their antiwar/peace work below and in the US Peace Registry.

GERRY CONDON, of Lower Lake, CA, has been a peace activist and military veterans’ rights leader active in solidarity causes since the Vietnam War. projectsafehaven@hotmail.com www.keywiki.org/Gerry_Condon

Refused orders to deploy to Vietnam while training as an Army Special Forces (Green Beret) medic, and spoke out publicly against the war and the draft, 1968.

Deserted U.S. Army, escaped from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Montreal, Quebec, and subsequently court-martialed, 03/1969; convicted of two counts of refusing orders and sentenced to 10 years hard labor and a Dishonorable Discharge, then fled to Stockholm, Sweden, 11/1969.

Joined American Deserters Committee and edited newsletter, Paper Grenade, 1969.

Represented exiled U.S. war resisters at international conferences against the Vietnam War, including in meetings with Vietnamese representatives, Stockholm and Paris, 1970-1972.

Moved to Canada, joined AMEX-Canada exile collective, and organized exiled U.S. war resisters in Vancouver and Toronto, 06/1972.

Managing editor, AMEX-Canada magazine, 1974.

Returned to United States as part of a campaign for unconditional amnesty for all war resisters, 01/1975; traveled and spoke in 50 U.S. cities at the risk of arrest and immediate imprisonment (after six months, the Army dropped jail sentence), 1975.

Staff, National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty (NCUUA), 1975, and Clergy and Laity Concerned, 1976, advocated for amnesty for all war resisters and organized at Democratic Convention, New York City, NY, 1976, to have a draft resister nominated as Vice President of the United States (leading to Jimmy Carter’s first act as president to pardon draft resisters, and establish a program for returning deserters and a case-by-case review of less-than-honorable discharges, 01/1977).

Counter-Recruitment staff, NCUUA, 1977.

Co-founded Resist the Draft collective and Venice/Santa Monica Draft Resistance, 1979-1982.

National Coordinator, Committee Against Registration and the Draft, 1982-1984.

Organized delegations of U.S. veterans to Nicaragua, traveled to war zones in opposition of the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras’ counter-revolutionary forces, 1983-1984.

Coordinated Veterans Peace Action Teams, rebuilt schools and clinics that had been destroyed by the Contras, Nicaragua, 1987; and co-coordinated Veterans Peace Convoy, which delivered 39 trucks and humanitarian aid to Nicaragua, 1987.

Organized humanitarian aid caravans to Nicaragua and Cuba, and exposed and challenged U.S. intervention in Latin America, IFCO/Pastors for Peace, 1993-1996.

Founded Project Safe Haven, worked in Canada to support Iraq war veterans who refused to return to war and sought asylum in Canada, 2004-2006.

President, Greater Seattle Veterans For Peace, 2007-2009.

Board member, Bradley Manning Support Committee, traveled around the U.S. organizing support for freedom for Chelsea Manning, 2010.

Speaking tour, Veterans For Peace (VFP), addressed conferences and rallies against the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Europe, 2011.

Represented VFP on U.S. peace movement fact-finding delegation to Syria, 07/2016-08/2016; and on U.S. Peace Council delegation to Venezuela, 03/2019.

Led VFP support for protection of Venezuelan Embassy, assaulted by Secret Service police and arrested, Washington, DC, 05/2019.

Interviews including “‘Turnkey Tyranny’ on the Streets of Washington,” Consortium News, 05/09/2019; and “Vietnam Full Disclosure,” Courage to Resist, 12/02/2019.

Led delegation, VFP, to learn about the U.S.-backed violent attempted 2018 coup, Nicaragua, 2019.

Vice President, 2015-2017, VFP; Board of Directors, 2012-2020; and President, 2019-2020.

Election observer, Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast, 2020.

Co-author, Veterans For Peace Nuclear Posture Review, 01/2022.

Co-coordinated “Great Loop” voyage of the Golden Rule, sailing from Minneapolis down the Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, then to cities of the Northeast and into the Great Lakes, 2022-2023; and coordinated voyage to Cuba, making connections to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and calling for an end to U.S. blockade of Cuba, 12/2022-01/2023.

Co-coordinated Veterans & GI Contingent March for Peace in Ukraine, Washington, DC, 03/2023.

Gave a talk, “Veteran Peace Activist Gerry Condon Speaks,” Walnut Creek, CA, 05/28/2025.

Wrote and co-wrote articles including “Sanctuary & Counseling for War Resisters,” Z Magazine, 07/01/2006; “Iraq War Resister Kyle Snyder Arrested in Canada, then Released: U.S. Army Requested the Illegal Apprehension,” Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 02/28/2007; “Guatemalans Resist Invasion of North American Mines,” Global Research, 01/07/2013; “The Doomsday Clock is Ticking: Veterans Call on U.S. to Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,” Global Research, 07/18/2017; “The Wall, The Endless War, and the Troops Who Pay,” Common Dreams, 01/18/2019; “Armistice Day – Wage Peace with Renewed Energy!,” LA Progressive, 11/10/2020; “Condemning Trump's Pardons for Blackwater Murderers--and Illegal, Unjust, Unending War,” Common Dreams, 12/26/2020; “Veteran Celebrates Nuclear Ban Treaty,” Common Dreams, 01/18/2021; “How We Got The Bikini And Learned To Hate The Bomb,” World Beyond War, 02/26/2021; “We Are Sailing for a Nuclear-free World and a Peaceful, Sustainable Future,” Global Research, 05/05/2021; “As Ukraine Crisis Raises Specter of Nuclear War, Veterans Call for Disarmament and Peace,” LA Progressive, 02/06/2022; “Message to Biden: Help De-Escalation in Ukraine or Risk Nuclear War,” Common Dreams, 03/14/2022; “Veteran's Letter to Biden--Negotiate Don't Escalate in Ukraine,” Common Dreams, 09/15/2022; “Who's Nuking Whom?,” LA Progressive, 11/18/2022; “US Veterans Call for Holiday Truce, Ceasefire, and Negotiations to End War in Ukraine,” Common Dreams, 12/18/2022; “US Veterans Sail Historic Peace Boat to Cuba, Demand End of US Blockade,” Common Dreams, 01/22/2023; “Who Lies? Who Dies? Who Pays? Who Profits? Why Veterans Are Calling for Peace in Ukraine,” Common Dreams, 10/07/2023; “On the 70th Anniversary of the Castle Bravo Test, Remember the Victims,” Common Dreams, 03/01/2024; “Veterans Aren’t Fooled by Biden’s Mixed Messages on Gaza,” Common Dreams, 03/06/2024; “The Active-Duty Airman Refusing to Eat While Gaza Starves,” Common Dreams, 04/03/2024; “‘The Law Is Simple’: Israel’s Unregulated Nukes Mean Biden Must Halt Military Aid,” Common Dreams, 04/20/2024; “US Veterans Applauds Israeli Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Gaza, Call for US GI’s to Resist Illegal Wars and War Crimes,” Antiwar.com, 10/23/2024; “On Armistice Day, Veterans Call for an Armistice in Gaza and Beyond,” Common Dreams, 11/11/2024; “Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters,” Common Dreams, 01/06/2025; “War No More: Veterans Reflect on the Meaning of Memorial Day,” Common Dreams, 05/26/2025; “Why Are Veterans and Allies Fasting for Gaza?,” Common Dreams, 05/29/2025; and “Are We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War?,” Popular Resistance, 08/05/2025.

Nominated for US Peace Prize, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2023 and 2025.

Inducted into the Sebastopol Living Peace Wall, Sebastopol, CA 09/06/25.

President, VFP Golden Rule Committee, and co-coordinator of voyages of the historic anti-nuclear sailboat, traveled up and down the coast of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Baja Mexico (with Deported Veterans), and Hawaii, and held hundreds of events to educate about the growing danger of nuclear war and to advocate for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2015-2025.

Co-coordinated VFP Nuclear Abolition Working Group, 2021-2025.

Board member and past Vice President, Task Force on the Americas, 2021-2025.

Steering Committee member, Peace In Ukraine Coalition, 2022-2025.

JOSEPH GERSON, PhD, of Watertown, MA, is a peace activist known for his work on nuclear disarmament, military spending, Asia-Pacific policies, NATO, and U.S.-Russian relations. http://www.keywiki.org/Joseph_Gerson www.facebook.com/joseph.gerson.75 JGerson@afsc.org

Entered rally for presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, displayed a banner that read “GIs Die While Politicians Lie,” and was escorted out by police, Chicago Stadium, IL, 11/03/1968.

Draft training, Chicago, IL, 1968; and draft counselor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 04/1969.

Applied for conscientious objector status, burned draft card, was granted conscientious objector status, 1969.

Director, Arizonans for Peace, Tempe Peace Center, Phoenix Valley, AZ, 1969-1973.

Administrative Coordinator, War Resisters’ International, London, England, 03/1973-07/1974, and Brussels, Belgium, 07/1974-08/1975.

Board member, International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace, London, 1975-1979.

Founder and leader, Ad Hoc Committee for a Safe Boston Harbor, to prevent Boston Harbor from being transformed into a Navy nuclear weapons base, 1983; and co-founder, Coalition for Peace with Justice, Boston, MA, 1983-1988.

Author of books including The Deadly Connection: Nuclear War and U.S. Intervention, New Society/AFSC-New England, 1986; co-author, New Contexts, New Dangers: Preventing Nuclear War in the Post-Cold War Age, 1993; and co-author, The Sun Never Sets…: Confronting the Network of Foreign U.S. Military Bases, South End Press, Boston, 07/01/1999.

Arrested four times for civil disobedience, including closing an Air Force recruiting office and distributing leaflets, sentenced to prison for six months, AZ, 1971; and for opposing the Iraq War and disrupting an Army recruiting event, Cambridge, MA, 06/14/2005.

Memorial exhibits including “Doors to Peace” display of information and photographs about Palestine and Israel, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) conference, Washington, DC, and elsewhere, 1976-1978; “Eyes Wide Open” exhibit of military boots with names of U.S. and Iraqi war dead, 2004-2006; and shared U.S. peace movement posters and items from the Kyoto Museum for World Peace (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) to complement an exhibit from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Medford, MA, 2006.

Protests, marches, and demonstrations including March on the Pentagon, Washington, DC, and Arlington, VA, 10/21/1967; campus ROTC, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1968; Nonviolent Caucus against the Vietnam War and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968; permanent Enola Gay Exhibit, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, 12/2003; national antiwar demonstration, Washington, DC, 03/2005; launch of destroyer USS Zumwalt, Bath, ME, 04/2014; and construction of a Marine Corps air base in Okinawa, Cambridge, MA, 04/2014.

Arranged meetings, speaking tours, workshops, and marches for Hibakusha (Japanese word for the surviving victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), 1992, 1996, 1999-2000, 2005, 2010, and 2014-2015.

Awards including Outstanding Student Award for civil rights and peace activities, Georgetown University East Campus, Washington, DC, 05/1968; John and Chara Haas Award for International Peace and Social Justice, Peace Action Committee, Philadelphia, PA, 10/24/2013; and Sylvia and Oscar Ackelsberg Peace and Courage Award, New Jersey Peace Action, 04/24/2016.

Lectures including “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Peaceful Alternatives,” 1976-1978; “The Return of the Draft and How to Proceed,” Harvard and Boston Universities, MA, 02/07/1980; “Have Bomb, Will Travel: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Intervention,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 01/28/1987; “War or Peace in the Middle East?,” New England Peace Studies Association, 11/1988; “U.S. Intervention: Policing the Gulf and the World,” Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 02/1990; “International Security and Conflict in the Post Cold War Era,” Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, 1993; “War, Peace and the Moral Imagination,” Newbury College, Brookline, MA, 03/1994; “The Meaning of Hibakusha,” Tufts University, Medford, MA, 03/1995; “U.S. Nuclear Weapons and War Policy in the Clinton Administration,” Xinhua Center for World Affairs, Beijing, China, 07/1998; “New Contexts, New Dangers, New Opportunities for the Peace and Justice Movement,” Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT, 10/1999; and peace lecture series, Central Square Library, Cambridge, MA, 02/2016.

Traveled to participate in International Peace Bureau’s Sean MacBride Peace Prize selection, Okinawa, Japan, 08/2017; and speaker, Sean MacBride Peace Prize ceremony, Barcelona, Spain, 11/24/2017.

Co-author, U.S.-Russia Joint Statement of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security and Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland, 08/02/2019; and Statement on Common Security, European and Asian Common Security Conference, Berlin, Germany, 09/24/2019.

Disarmament Coordinator, Director of the Peace & Economic Security Program, and other positions, AFSC New England, 1976-2017; and Director of Programs, AFSC Northeast Region, 1978-2020.

U.S. Coordinator, International Peace Bureau’s Global Days of Action on Military Spending, 2017-2020.

Wrote book chapters including “Teach The Children Well,” Peace Education, 05/2017; and “Empire, US Military Sending and Campaigning for a Moral Budget,” Military Spending and Global Security, Routledge, 2020.

Lead book editor, English edition of The Atomic Bomb on My Back: A Life Story of Survival and Activism by Taniguchi Sumiteru, Rootstock Publishing, 2020.

Planned conferences and spoke on topics including nonviolence, nuclear disarmament, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, U.S. wars for oil, U.S. foreign military bases, NATO counter summit, and militarism, 1969-2017; co-organizer and speaker, “The Next 2 Years & Beyond: A Movement Building Conference,” Boston, 11/17/2018; online “World Conference: Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis, for Economic and Social Justice,” 04/2020; and co-organizer, No First Use Conference, Harvard University, 05/15/2021.

Organized Common Security Panel, International Peace Bureau, Barcelona World Conference, Spain, 04/2021.

Gave testimony in favor of S.1703 / H.2597, reductions in military spending, Massachusetts State House, 06/09/2021.

Lead Organizer of conferences including “No Nukes, No Wars, No Walls, No Warming”, New York, 06/18/2017; “Peace & Planet” online conference, 2022; and “Fierce Urgency of Now Peace & Planet Conference,” New York, 2022.

Arranged Alfred W. McCoy speaking tour, including “In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power,” Boston, 12/10/2017; speaking tour for Boris Kargarlitsky and Oleg Bodrov, Boston area, 05/06-05/07/2019; arranged for speech by Noam Chomsky to the “2022 World Social Forum,” 04/29/2022; and Noam Chomsky’s opening remarks for the “International Peace Summit for Ukraine,” Vienna, Austria, 06/10/2023.

Organized events including Mother’s Day Peace March, Phoenix, AZ, 1969; Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam (Southwest), 1972-1973; U.S. Peace Movement tour to Japan, 2008; “NATO Counter Summit,” Washington, DC, 04/02/2019; “Growing Nuclear Risks in a Changing World: New Thinking and Movement Building,” New York, 05/04/2019; “No Common Security with Nuclear Weapons,” Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, 08/04/2022; and “Tectonic Geopolitical Changes & Their Nuclear Implications,” Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Round Table, 11/28/2023.

Interviews and podcasts with more than 100 newspapers, radio, and television stations regarding the Middle East, Philippines, U.S.-Japan relations, disarmament, and other foreign policy issues: radio stations including National Public Radio, Voice of America, WPFW (DC), WMBR (MA), CKWR (Canada), Pacifica Radio, and Radio France; TV stations including RT (Russia), Press TV (Tehran), and Al Jazeera (Qatar); newspapers including The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Socialist Review, and Concord Monitor, 1975-1995; “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dangerous Arms Races & Moral Imagination,” WGDR, 07/29/2021; and “Conversation with Dr. Joseph Gerson on U.S. Empire and Nuclear Weapons,” BCTV, 03/2024.

Panelist including Citizen Responses to the Iraq War, Emerson College, Boston, 03/2003; Peace and Anti-bases Conference, University of Hawaii, 08/2007; U.S. Foreign and Military Policy, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, Germany, 04/2009; Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo), 2000-2001, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2013, and 2015; Achieving a Nuclear Weapons-Free World–Dialogue Between Governments and Non-Government Organizations, Nagasaki, Japan, 08/2015; How to Develop an International Coalition for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, United Nations, New York, 03/2017; and WE Rotary Club of International Peace webinar on the Ukraine War, 06/2024.

Convener, Peace and Planet International Network, 2017-2023; and co-convener International Peace and Planning Network for U.N.-related Nuclear Disarmament activities, 2020-2024.

Co-launched Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy, 2021-2024.

Wrote Summary Report, 2024 World Conference, 08/2024.

Project coordinator, Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region Report, International Peace Bureau and Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; wrote chapters of report, “Toward Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region,” “Obstacles to Common Security: Overcoming the Resurgences of Alliances and Alignments,” and co-wrote “Conclusion: Why We Need Common Security in the Indo-Pacific,” 10/2024.

Delegation member, Nihon Hidankyo Nobel Peace Prize Delegation, Oslo, Norway, 12/10-12/11/2024.

Participant, Nobel Peace Laureate conference and drafting committee, Hiroshima, Japan, 11/2010; participant and side event speaker, NPT PrepCom, Vienna, Austria, 04/2017; Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, Vienna, 06/19-06/20/2022; Princeton-Tsinghua Seminars on U.S.-China Nuclear Weapons Policies, 2020-2023; International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, Vienna, 06/10-06/11/2023; New England Korea Peace Now Network, 2020-2024; and U.S., European, Russian confidential track II strategic security dialog, 2022-2025.

Wrote over 100 articles published in media including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Truthout, Nuclear Times, Peacework, Scandinavian Journal of Alternative Development, Peace Review, Z Magazine, Common Dreams, and The Huffington Post, 1973-2017; “War or Peace in the Trump Era,” Foreign Policy in Focus, 01/23/2017; “Challenging the Trump Regime: Racism, Fascism and Their Nuclear Implications,” Truthout, 03/06/2017; “The Treaty to Prohibit and Ban Nuclear Weapons: Making the Road by Walking,” Truthout, 04/05/2017; “In an Increasingly Unequal Society, It’s Time to Reclaim the US Budget From the Pentagon,” Truthout, 04/26/2017; “No Fire, No Fury: Common Security Diplomacy to Resolve US-North Korean Crisis,” Common Dreams, 08/11/2017; “Afghanistan, the Endless War and Our Torn Flag,” Truthout, 10/07/2017; “Trump, Korea, the Ban, & Where Hope Lies,” IPS News, 10/12/2017; “The Reality of North Korea as a Nuclear Power,” IPS News, 01/11/2018; “Doomsday and the Apocalyptic Trump Nuclear War Fighting Doctrine,” Truthout, 01/26/2018; “Confronting Nuclear Challenges in the Era of Trump,” Buzzflash, 04/03/2018; “Intentional Chaos: Trump and the Global NATO Alliance,” Truthout, 07/10/2018; “Keeping Saudi Arabia Nuclear-Free,” In Depth News, 11/30/2018; “No to Disastrous War With Iran,” Common Dreams, 01/06/2020; “A Pandemic, the Geopolitical Struggle for Power, and the Urgency of Common Security,” Common Dreams, 04/25/2020; “New START & the End of Arms Control,” Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (London), 06/2020; “Facing History and Ourselves: Full Spectrum Dominance from White Supremacy to Hiroshima & Nagasaki,” Pressenza, 07/08/2020; “Trigger Fingers, Nuclear NATO, and Building Back Better,” Pressenza, 07/20/2020; “South China Sea Provocations & Meeting China Halfway,” IPS News, 07/22/2020; “Nightmare of an October Surprise,” Common Dreams, 08/26/2020; “Against Tyranny Buying Time for Democracy,” Massachusetts Peace Action Newsletter, 09/2020; “The Promise Of The Treaty On Prevention Of Nuclear Weapons,” Eurasia Review, 10/26/2020; “Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Takes Effect in January,” Massachusetts Peace Action, 12/01/2020; “Our Real Security: Preventing a New Cold War with China,” Common Dreams, 12/09/2020; “Was Trump Hoping for a Coup?,” Common Dreams, 01/07/2021; “The New Cold War U.S.-Japanese Summit: Containing China and Reinforcing Hegemony,” Common Dreams, 04/24/2021; “Biden Dangerously Accelerating the New Cold War with China,” Common Dreams, 06/01/2021; “The 21st Century Nuclear Arms Race,” IPS News, 06/09/2021; “Biden in Europe: To Contain China, Reconstructing the Global Disorder,” Common Dreams, 06/18/2021; “The Promise of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,” International Peace Bureau, 06/20/2021; “Taiwan: A War That Must Never Be Fought,” Common Dreams, 07/09/2021; “Biden’s Nuclear Weapons Commitments: Dangerous Continuities,” Common Dreams, 09/18/2021; “Geopolitical Earthquakes Increase the Danger of Catastrophic War,” Common Dreams, 10/09/2021; “Alternatives to the Pentagon’s China Nightmares,” Common Dreams, 11/06/2021; “In The Run up to the Biden-Putin Summit,” IPS News, 12/01/2021; “U.S. China Policies,” and “U.S. National Security Strategy,” Friedensforum (Germany), 2022; “Common Security Approaches to Resolve the Ukraine and European Crises,” Pressenza, 01/23/2022; “How the US and NATO Could Settle Dispute Over Ukraine Without War,” Common Dreams, 01/24/2022; “Resisting a New Cold War with Russia and China,” Common Dreams, 01/28/2022; “The World is Plunging into a Dangerous New Cold War 2.0,” In Depth News, 03/07/2022; co-wrote article, “Is “Taiwan Next”? We Don’t Think So,” Common Dreams, 03/07/2022; “Ukraine Negotiations: No Fly Zone, Nukes, Neutrality, and Disarmament,” Common Dreams, 03/28/2022; “More Than 1,000 U.S. War Opponents Express Solidarity With Russian War Resisters and Urge Negotiations,” Pressenza, 05/11/2022; “The Ukraine War and the World’s Increasingly Dangerous Geopolitical Landscape,” Common Dreams, 06/06/2022; “In the Spirit of Chinngis Khan: Mongolian Independence, and Its Nuclear Weapons Free Zone,” 06/17/2022; “The Global NATO Alliance, the European Left, and the Crack in Everything,” Common Dreams, 07/12/2022; “Failure of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference Leaves Humanity Increasingly Vulnerable,” Common Dreams, 08/31/2022; “Ukraine War: Still a Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion,” Common Dreams, 09/21/2022; “The Ukraine War & the U.S. National Security Strategy,” 11/17/2022; “Sky Shield & the Spiraling U.S.-NATO Arms Race,” In Depth News, 12/13/2022; “Militarized Japan and the Biden-Kishida Summit Signal Moment in the New Cold War,” Common Dreams, 01/10/2023; “AUKUS Nuclear Submarines: Accelerating the Sleepwalking to War With China,” Common Dreams, 03/26/2023; “Ukraine, the Deepening Euro-Atlantic Crisis, and Common Security Possibilities,” Common Dreams, 05/03/2023; “What Comes After Pax Americana?,” Common Dreams, 07/20/2023; “An Early Warning to Prevent Renewed & Catastrophic Korean War,” In Depth News, 08/10/2023; “Biden’s Trilateral Camp David Summit Advanced Preparation for War with China,” Common Dreams, 08/21/2023; “Past Time for Ukraine Ceasefire and Negotiations,” Common Dreams, 10/01/2023; “Gaza Cease-Fire Now! No Wider War,” Common Dreams, 01/13/2024; “In Gaza We Are Witnessing the 21st Century Version of How the West Was Won,” Common Dreams, 01/24/2024; “The Commemoration of the Criminal Bravo H-Bomb Test Is a Cry for a Nuclear Free World,” Common Dreams, 02/11/2024; “Finding the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Oppenheimer Film,” Common Dreams, 03/10/2024; “What the 2024 Election Could Mean for NATO and the Future of US-European Relations,” Common Dreams, 06/22/2024; “When the New Fascists Fully Arrive, It’s Not Going to Be Pretty in This World,” Common Dreams, 07/19/2024; “In a Perilous Time: Nuclear Dangers, Politics, and the New Cold War,” Pressenza, 07/28/2024; “Who Is Kamala Harris? Her Context, Ascent, and Economic and Social Commitments,” Common Dreams, 08/31/2024; “Who Is Kamala Harris? Aggressive Foreign and Military Policies,” Common Dreams, 09/01/2024; “Some Way Out of Here: Common Security in a World On Fire,” Common Dreams, 09/28/2024; “Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Could Not Have Come at a More Important Moment,” Common Dreams, 10/12/2024; “What to Expect From Trump’s Foreign and Military Policies: Old and New Dangers,” Common Dreams, 11/11/2024; “The Would-Be Dictator’s Foreign and Military Commitments,” Pressenza, 11/15/2024; “The Timely Importance of Japanese A-Bomb Survivors Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize,” Common Dreams, 12/09/2024; “Trump’s Sovereigntist Imperialism Will Trigger Self-Defeating US Decline,” Common Dreams, 02/15/2025; and “New Sheriff Astride the Globe: Trump’s Sovereigntist Imperialism,” Pressenza, 02/21/2025.

Keynote speaker, co-chair, and leader of workshops including Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Conference, Belgium, 2002 and 2004; World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1984, 1986-1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1996-1997, 2000-2002, 2004-2013, and 2015-2016; Nuclear Remembrance Day (Bikini Day) Commemorative Conference and memorial procession, 2002-2003, 2007-2008, 2010-2017, and keynote speaker and workshops talks, Bikini Day Commemorative Conference, Shizuoka, Japan, 02/28/2019; keynote speaker and workshops, World Conference against A & H Bombs, Hiroshima, Japan, 08/2017, 08/2018, 08/2020, 08/2021, 08/2022, 08/2023, and 08/2024; keynote speaker, Japan Peace Committee Annual Conference, 11/2024; and keynote speaker, Gensuikyo Annual Conference, 2017-2025, and Nuclear Disarmament and Asia-Pacific Workshops, Gensuikyo Annual Conference, Shizuoka, Japan, 02/28/2025.

Organized forums including “Urgency of Disarmament Public Forum,” second Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, New York, 11/29/2023; and “If Not Now, When: An International Forum to Prevent Nuclear War & Secure Our Future,” New York, 03/04/2025.

Speeches, presentations, and webinars including “The Draft and the Political Context,” Boston,1980; “Prospects for Middle East Peace in the Post Camp David Era,” Middlebury, VT, 11/1982; “First Strike and the Deadly Connection,” Boston, 1983; “Current US Nuclear Strategy and the Trend of US Public Opinion,” Yokohama, Japan, 08/1997; “Alternatives to War,” Waltham, MA, 12/2001; “Empire, Its Consequences, and the Search for Peace,” Plainfield, MA, 10/2007; “How to Build an Empire: U.S. Foreign Military Bases,” Watertown, MA, 05/2008; “Obama, Nukes and the NPT,” Amherst, MA, 08/2009; “Nuclear Madness,” New London, NH, 11/2015; “Three Minutes to Midnight: The Global Struggle for a Nuclear-Free World,” Dover, NY, 10/2016; “U.S. and the E.U.: Militarization and Risk of Nuclear War in the Trump Era,” Staten Island, NY, 03/2017; “In an Increasingly Unequal Society, It’s Time to Reclaim the US Budget From the Pentagon,” Cambridge, MA, 04/2017; “Living in Dangerous Times: Prospects for Disarmament,” Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament annual meeting, 10/14/2017; “In the Land of the Blind: Crises and Resistance in Trump’s America,” Delas Centre Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 11/23/2017; Side Event Talk, NPT PrepCom, Geneva, Switzerland 04/2018; “Intentional Chaos: Trump and the Global NATO Alliance,” NATO Counter-Summit, Brussels, Belgium, 07/08/2018; speaking tour and meetings with members of Parliament, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney, Australia, 08/11-08/16/2018; “Randall Forsberg: Ignition of the Freeze Movement & the Deadly Connection,” Cornell University, 09/13/2018; “After the Post-Cold War,” Burlington, VT, 01/18/2019; “Diplomacy and Solidarity for Korean Peace & Denuclearization: U.S. Actions and Perspectives,” Japan-Korea International Peace Forum, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 05/30-05/31/2019; “From Hiroshima to New York: Overcoming the Nuclear Powers,” World Conference against A & H Bombs, Hiroshima, Japan, 08/2019; “After the Post-Cold War Era: Geo-strategic Dynamics of the Interregnum & A Vision for Eurasian Common Security Diplomacy,” Eurasia Common Security Conference, Berlin, Germany, 09/23/2019; “21^st Century Security: Challenges and Solutions,” Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Annual Conference, London, 10/20/2019; “The Bomb on My Back Webinar: Commemorating & Learning From Courageous Hibakusha,” Greater Manchester Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Webinar, 08/09/2020; “In a Dangerous Time: Toward Preventing a Disastrous U.S.-China War,” World Conference against A & H Bombs, Hiroshima, 07/31/2021; Nuclear Disarmament Talks included Keynote at World Conference against A & H Bombs, Rotary International Disarmament Group, Showa Institute, Philippines Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration; Baltimore Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration, Washington, D.C.; Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration; and Pax Christi International, 2022; “U.S. Nuclear Weapon History and Policy,” Veterans for Peace, 02/2022; “How the US and NATO Could Settle the Dispute Over Ukraine Without War,” Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice & the Environment, 02/16/2022; “For Common Security Diplomacy: End the Ukraine War, No New Cold War, A Nuclear-Free World,” Gensuikyo Annual Conference, Shizuoka, Japan, 02/28/2022; “Challenges for the Peace Movement,” Brooklyn for Peace, 03/31/2022; “The Ukraine War and the World’s Dangerous and Changing Geopolitical Landscape,” Blue Banner International Conference, Ulan Bator,  Mongolia, 06/10/2022; “Joseph Gerson’s Speech Honoring Hiroshi Taka on His Award of the Sean MacBride Peace Prize,” New York, 10/16/2022; “Global NATO: History, Doctrines, Expansion, Wars & Future,” 07/13/2023; “Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises for the Next Generation,” Coalition for Peace Action webinar, 07/16/2023; “Hiroshima Tectonic Geopolitical Change, and the Light of Hiroshima,” World Conference against A & H Bombs, Hiroshima, Japan, 08/03/2023; “The Making of the Current Situation,” Commons: Peace and Security for All Conference, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 08/25/2023; “The Ukraine War and Ceasefire Possibilities,” Wellstone Democratic Renewal webinar, CA, 02/2024; rally speaker, Two Ceasefires rally, Boston, 02/25/2024; “Introduction to Nuclear Dangers and the Imperatives of Disarmament,” Haitian American webinar, 04/04/2024; “Looking to the Future: The U.S., Europe, NATO & Ukraine,” Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament webinar, 07/18/2024; “Lattice-Like Network of U.S. Military Alliances,” Asia Europe People’s Forum Webinar on the emerging world disorder, 08/2024; “Nuclear Dangers, the Military Industrial-Congressional-University Complex and the Hibakusha’s Peace Prize,” Paying for War: Working for Peace Conference, Des Moines, Iowa, 10/21/2024; U.S.-China relations for Philippine Initiative for Critical and Global Issues webinar, 11/2024; rally speech, Nobel Peace Prize events, Oslo City Hall, Norway, 12/09/2024; speech to members of Nihon Hidankyo Nobel Peace Prize delegation outside Norwegian parliament building, Oslo, Norway, 12/10/2024; “Joseph Gerson Speaks About the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony,” 01/13/2025; New Hampshire Peace Action Webinar, 01/13/2025; Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice & the Environment, 02/19/2025; “From the Peace Prize to the Trump-Musk Coup: Hope and Resistance,” Gensuikyo Annual Conference, Shizuoka, Japan, 02/27/2025; spoke at community meeting, Women Against War, Albany, NY, 04/01/2025; “U.S. and Chinese Military and Economic Competition for 21st Century Supremacy,” Skidmore College, 04/02/2025; and “From Biden to Trump: Containing China and Its Dangers,” Siena College, 04/02/2025.

Organized webinars including “Middle East WMDs and a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone,” 2020; “Nationwide Briefing Call: Global Days of Action on Military Spending,” 03/19/2020; “International Peace Bureau Racism & Resistance,” 06/2020; “Anti-Racism Protest in the United States: No Justice, No Peace,” 06/05/2020; Massachusetts Peace Action webinar on authoritarianism, 06/29/2020; lead organizer, webinar to promote local community collaborations with Gensuikyo’s H-Bomb Sufferers organizations, 07/2020; “75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings: Deconstructing the Myths and Promoting a Nuclear Weapon-Free and Just World,” 07/13/2020; “International Nuclear Disarmament Agenda: Civil Society Perspectives from Seven Key States,” 02/23/2021; “China, the U.S. and the Risk of Nuclear War,” 04/07/2021; “Asia-Pacific Elites: Money & Trade, and Foreign and Military Policies, 06/09/2021; “China, the U.S. & Taiwan: The World’s Most Dangerous Flashpoint,” 10/27/2021; “The BAN Treaty: What It Is and Why Is It Important?,” 11/11/2021; “The U.S., NATO and Russia: Arms Races, Confrontations & Common Security Alternatives,” 12/07/2021; “The U.S, China and Biden’s First 100 Days,” and “Daniel Ellsberg on the U.S., China, Taiwan and the Nuclear Danger,” Committee for Sane U.S.-China Policy, 2022; “Repression of Uyghurs,” 02/2022; “On the Brink: Understanding the Ukraine Crises & Paths Toward a Just Peace,” 02/03/2022; “Countering Anti-Asian Racism,” 02/28/2022; “Diplomatic Paths to Resolution of the Ukraine/European Security Crisis: Russian, European & U.S. Perspectives,” 03/02/2022; “A Negotiated Settlement of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict?,” 03/31/2022; “The Origin of the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict, Negotiation Process, and the Cuban Missiles Crises,” 04/15/2022; “Common Security 2022–North American Launch,” 04/28/2022; “The Ukraine War, Russia, and U.S./China Relations,” 05/19/2022; “The U.S., Russia, China & NATO: The Dangerous New Era of Great Power Confrontation & How We Respond,” 08/08/2022; “Defending Our Imperiled Democracy,” 09/20/2022; “The Ukraine War. Climate Chaos. Building Democracy & International Solidarity,” 09/29/2022; “Noam Chomsky: The Ukraine War and Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis,” 10/10/2022; “South Korean Perspectives on Peace & Demilitarizing U.S.-Korean Tensions,” 10/10/2022; “The War in Ukraine and Its Implications for U.S.-China Relations,” 10/11/2022; “Zaporizhzhia: Facing the Dangers of Nuclear Power Plans in War and Peace,” 12/11/2022; “Russia, Europe, Ukraine and Possibilities for Euro-Atlantic Peace,” 12/14/2022; “Myths, Realities & Implications of China’s Nuclear Weapons,” 02/04/2023; “What Should U.S. Policy Toward Taiwan Be?,” 03/29/2023; “Transnational dialogue on decommissioning of nuclear power plants: New England (USA) & Northwest Russia,” 05/19/2023; “Shifting Power Dynamics: Ukraine, Russia, and U.S.-China Relations in a Multipolar World,” 06/26/2023; “Report Back from South Korea and Japan,” 09/12/2023; “Contexts & Implications of the Gaza War,” 10/10/2023; “The Gaza and Ukraine Wars: Recent Developments, Geopolitical Implications, and Paths to Greater Peace & Justice,” 10/24/2023; “The Gaza War and Its Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics,” 01/10/2024; “Educating the Haitian Diaspora on the Threat of Nuclear Weapons,” 04/04/2024; “The World’s Tectonic Geopolitical Changes and Their Implications,” 05/22/2024; “Debunking Deterrence Theory and Pursuing Global Nuclear Disarmament,” 07/09/2024; “Global NATO: Implications and Resistance,” 07/17/2024; “Genocide and the Widening Middle East Wars,” 10/08/2024; “Reiner Braun: Report Back from Shanghai Conference,” 10/09/2024; “Where Are We Now? And What Does It Mean for Our Movements?,” 11/20/2024; “Yoon’s Failed South Korean Military Coup: Implications for Korea and the World,” 01/29/2025; “Trump’s Second Term: NATO, War, and the Economy,” 02/18/2025; “First They Came for the Immigrants,” 03/18/2025; organized and hosted webinar, “Canada Responds to Trumpism – Arms, Trade, and Alliances Webinar,” 05/14/2025; and “The Russo-Ukrainian War, Diplomacy, and the Peace Movement,” 05/21/2025.

Member, United for Justice with Peace anti-war coalition, Boston, 2001- 2003; Abolition 2000 Global Council, 2008-2017; and No to War-No to NATO Steering Committee, 2008-2017 and 2019-2025.

Board member, International Peace Bureau, Berlin, Germany, 2014-2016; Council Member, 2017-2020; Board of Directors, 2018-2020; Vice-President, 2020-2023; and Advisor, 2024-2025.

Member, Massachusetts Peace Action Nuclear Disarmament Working Group, 2015-2017 and 2020-2025; Ukraine working group and No War with China group, 2020-2025; and Board of Directors, 2020-2025.

President, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, 2017-2025.

Nominated for US Peace Prize, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2017 and 2025.

National Priorities Project

Founded in 1983, NPP is a non-partisan federal budget research organization that seeks to convert knowledge into antiwar action. They accomplish this by tracking federal spending on the military, working with partners, and advocating for a U.S. budget that prioritizes peace and funding for issues such as unemployment, education, health, and building a green economy. Publishes articles explaining the government’s focus on increasing military spending, at the expense of human needs, and its efforts to build a war and mass deportation machine. Activities focus on reports, fact sheets, and analysis, including Federal Budget 101, A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget, Cost of National Security, Trade-Offs tool, Interactive Tax Receipt to see where your money went, and Tax Day 2025: Your Tax Receipt. NPP’s website also offers webinars, an educator toolkit, a blog, and actions for voters. Nominated for US Peace Prize, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2025.

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TIMMON MILNE WALLIS, PhD, of Northampton, MA, has spent his adult life teaching, writing, directing organizations, and campaigning for peace and environmental issues in colleges, war zones, and with governments around the world. timmon@nuclearban.us www.nuclearban.us www.warheadstowindmills.org @nuclearban.us

Organized protest of U.S. warship that visited Bar Harbor, ME, 07/04/1978.

Organized peace march, ME, 07/04/1979.

Protested NATO decision to deploy nuclear weapons, London, England, 10/1980 and 10/1981.

Helped to build all-faith peace chapel on a U.S missile base, Molesworth, England, 1982-1984.

Planted a wheat field on a U.S. missile base to feed people who were starving, Molesworth, 1983-1984.

Organized national campaign of direct action at U.S missile base, coordinating groups of activists to commit civil disobedience by blocking entrances to the base, entering the base, digging up the ground, and/or planting flowers and trees on the base, Molesworth, 1984-1986.

Lived at peace camp near the U.S. missile base, Molesworth, 03/1982-05/1987.

Arrested for peace actions many times, Molesworth, 1985-1987.

Started British branch of Peace Brigades International, Bradford, England, 1989.

Wrote PhD thesis on resistance to U.S. missiles “Dialogue and Resistance: Two Approaches to Campaigning at RAF Molesworth,” 1987.

Organized demonstrations against the first Gulf War, Bradford, 1991, and organized Peace Team training sessions, Bradford, 1991.

Taught peace studies, Bradford, 1987-1992.

International Secretary, Peace Brigades International, London, 1991-1994.

Edited magazine, Peace News, London, 1994-1996.

Director, UK National Peace Council, London, 1996-1999.

Organized UK demonstration against U.S. bombing of Libya, London, 04/15/1996; and U.S. bombing of Serbia, London, 1999.

Coordinated national project “Bold Steps for Peace,” London, 1999.

Founded Peaceworkers UK, London, 2000.

Organized and trained people going into war zones, including human rights protection and unarmed civilian peacekeeping for NGOs; civilian crisis management missions for the EU; and judges going to Georgia and police going to Kosovo, 2001-2006.

Training manager, International Alert, 2006-2008.

Worked on creating Nonviolent Peaceforce, San Francisco, CA, 1999; co-chair of the board, 2000-2006; Program Manager, Brussels, Belgium, 2008-2009; and Executive Director, Brussels, 2010-2012.

Wrote articles for openDemocracy, including “Another ‘Dodgy Dossier’ for war,” “Strong on oratory, weak on facts,” and “Deconstructing nuclear deterrence,” 2015-2016.

Peace and Disarmament Manager, Quakers in Britain, London, 2014-2017.

Participated in negotiations at the UN for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2016-2017.

Gave a talk, “Eliminate nuclear weapons before they eliminate us! Taking local action to support a global treaty,” UMass Amherst, MA, 12/05/2017.

Led workshops in support of nuclear abolition, 2017-2020.

Wrote books including The Truth About Trident: Disarming the Nuclear Argument, 2017; Disarming the Nuclear Argument: The Truth About Nuclear Weapons, 2018; Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War, 2023; and Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario, 2025.

Lobbied Congress to pass Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Bill, Washington, DC, 2017-2025.

Founded NuclearBan.US, Northampton, MA, 2017; and Executive Director, 2017-2025.

Nominated for US Peace Prize, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2025.

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