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US PEACE REGISTRY
INTRODUCTION
The US Peace Registry, a publication of the US Peace Memorial Foundation, honors Americans who work for peace. It recognizes and documents the activities of U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and organizations that have publicly opposed military solutions (including invasion, occupation, production of weapons of mass destruction, use of weapons, and threats of war), rather than diplomacy and global cooperation, to solve international problems. It is hoped that honoring these courageous role models and leaders will inspire new generations of Americans to speak out for peace and to work to end the hatred, ignorance, greed, and intolerance that lead to war.
The specific examples of actions/behaviors listed under each individual or organization are intended to provide ideas and guidance to others so that peace/antiwar behaviors can be replicated nationwide. It should stimulate new discussions, help people feel more comfortable speaking out, and lead to greater citizen involvement in antiwar activities. This publication can be a valuable resource for peace scholars and practitioners engaged in research, teaching, action, and organization building.
Individual citizens who have written an antiwar letter to their representatives in Congress or to a newspaper are included, along with Americans who have devoted their lives to peace and opposing war. Groups, such as the Quakers who have opposed war for centuries, as well as the hundreds of new organizations with peace-related websites, will be included.
To view a more detailed rationale for the US Peace Registry please read "Honoring Peace and Antiwar Behavior" by clicking on this link. The US Peace Registry is published electronically on the US Peace Memorial Foundation’s website. It will be in print as chapters of a forthcoming book tentatively entitled Ending U.S. War by Honoring Americans Who Work for Peace. Eventually it will be displayed for public viewing at the electronic recognition kiosks located at the National Monument we will build in Washington, DC. The US Peace Registry is a developing national database that is revised weekly as new registrants are added and previous entries are updated.
To be included, registrants have provided antiwar and peace activism related biographical information, with supporting documentation (see Individual Application and Organization Application for requirements), which was reviewed by US Peace Registry editors. Those applications that are vetted, verified, and edited are then approved by the Foundation's Board of Directors for inclusion in this publication.
Registrants and Founding Members are invited to nominate others for inclusion in the US Peace Registry. The Foundation also directly asks individuals and organizations with well-known antiwar reputations to submit biographical information.
As seen in the entries below, a brief description of each registrant is followed by specific antiwar/peace activities listed in chronological order from oldest to most recent. A broad range of modern peace and antiwar actions are documented and these are shown in bold to highlight the wide variety of activities that have occurred throughout the years. These specific actions/activities are part of our content analysis that offers models and ideas for future peace actions by others.
At its basic core, the US Peace Memorial Foundation is all about giving people the opportunity to share their activities for peace and against war. We post examples of what you and your organizations are doing in order to educate, instruct, and inspire other Americans to demand an end to war. Antiwar talk among friends is cheap; actually working for peace is something that we recognize and celebrate. Your work will motivate others and more Americans will feel comfortable confronting our government, just like they did to help end the wars against the people of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
We are looking for Americans whose antiwar behavior, example, or success can be emulated by others. If you have done anything to oppose U.S. war, please submit your Individual Application or Organization Application. To see ideas of what is possible, read a sampling of the listings here.
Note 1: activities listed for each individual and organization are examples and should not be considered a comprehensive listing of their peace and antiwar actions. You can find a specific registrant by searching this document (Command F for Mac users and Ctrl F for Windows users).
Note 2: Those viewing the US Peace Registry in book format can visit www.uspeacememorial.org/Registry.htm to select hyperlinks in the text (highlighted in blue and underlined) to see websites, YouTube videos, photos, etc.
INDIVIDUALS HONORED Click for chapters: ORGANIZATIONS HONORED or FOUNDING MEMBERS.
(Revised 09/23/2020)
The US Peace Registry honors more than 175 Americans who work for peace and who are role models for a broad range of peace and antiwar actions and activities.
David Adams, PhD, a resident of Branford, CT, promotes the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace, called for by the UN General Assembly in its Resolution A/53/243. mail@decade-culture-of-peace.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Adams_(peace_activist)
Organizer, Seville Statement on Violence, 1986.
Organizer of the Peoples Peace Appeal, 1986.
Co-founder, Connecticut Labor for Peace,1988.
Consultant for the project of the UNESCO Culture of Peace Program, 1992-1993.
Staff, UNESCO Culture of Peace Program responsible for national programs in El Salvador, Mozambique and Russia, 1994-1997.
Director, United Nations International Year for the Culture of Peace, 1998-2001.
Author of books including Psychology for Peace Activists, 1985; The American Peace Movements, 1986; The History of the Culture of War, 2009; and Embrace the Fire: Plant the Seeds for a Culture of Peace, 2015.
Webmaster, Culture of Peace Information site http://culture-of-peace.info, and World Report on the Culture of Peace http://decade-culture-of-peace.org, 2002-2019.
Founder and President, Culture of Peace News Network, 2002-2020.
Christine Ahn, MPP (Georgetown University), lives in Honolulu, HI, and works to end the Korean War, reunite families, and ensure women’s leadership in peace building. www.womencrossdmz.org/christine-ahn info@womencrossdmz.org www.facebook.com/christine.ahn.754 @christineahn @WomenCrossDMZ
Co-organizer, Korean Americans United for Peace, 2003-2004.
Traveled to North Korea eight times with peace and humanitarian aid delegation and addressed the Republic of Korea National Human Rights Commission on the need for peace and to improve human rights, 2004.
Awards including Rising Peace Maker, Agape Foundation, 10/2005.
International Peace and Solidarity Director, Women of Color Resource Center, 2003-2006.
Co-founder, Korea Policy Institute, 2006.
Co-led international delegation to Pyeongtaek, South Korea to protest the expansion of U.S. Army Camp Humphreys, which was displacing Korean rice farmers, 2006.
Co-produced “Fashion Resistance to Militarism,” an educational project that created outfits to deconstruct militarism in everyday life, Oakland, CA, 05/2005; and an anti-military fashion show produced in over a dozen cities around the world, including for the “Security Without Empire” conference, Washington, DC, 02/28/2009.
Launched (with others) the Women Dismantling Militarism initiative at the Global Fund for Women, 2010.
Co-founder, Global Campaign to Save Jeju Island; traveled to Gangjeong village (on Jeju Island) to protest the construction of a U.S./Republic of Korea naval base, South Korea, 2011.
Co-founder and Steering Committee member, National Campaign to End the Korean War, 2009-2012.
Senior Research and Policy Director, Global Fund for Women, 2007-2013.
Co-founder, Korea Peace Network, 2015.
Negotiated a women's peace walk across the DMZ, North Korea, 2014, and planned logistics for DMZ crossing and events, North Korea, 03/2015-04/2015.
Organized an international delegation of 30 women peacemakers from 15 countries; held women’s peace symposia in Pyongyang, North Korea, and later in Seoul, South Korea; marched and crossed demilitarized zone (DMZ) with delegation and 10,000 Korean women, 05/2015.
Led an international women’s delegation to challenge the U.S. and Canadian governments for convening an anti-Korea, pro-war conference, Vancouver, Canada, 01/2018.
Lectures including “Preventing War: Crisis and Opportunity with North Korea,” Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA, 03/07/2018 and World Beyond War No War Conference, Toronto, Canada, 9/21/2018.
Led an international women’s delegation of 30 peacemakers to support North and South Korea’s peace-building process, Seoul, Korea, 05/2018.
Co-led a Northeast Asia Women Peace and Security Roundtable in Beijing, China, with women peacemakers from North Korea, South Korea, China, Russia, Japan, United States, and Canada, 12/2-12/4/2018.
Addressed U.S. Congress, the United Nations, the National Human Rights Commission in South Korea, and Canadian Parliament, 2004-2019.
Organized peace and humanitarian aid delegations to both North and South Korea, 2004-2019.
Co-coordinator, Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War campaign, 2019.
TV and radio interviews including appearances on Al Jazeera, Anderson Cooper’s 360, BBC, NBC Today Show, MSNBC AM Joy, and NPR; “‘The Korean People Want Peace’: Christine Ahn on Trump Walking Away from N. Korea Nuclear Talks,” Democracy Now!, 02/28/2019, and “Christine Ahn on the prospects for peace in Korea,” Wider View Radio PodBean, 03/19/2019.
Launched Korea Peace Now! transnational feminist campaign, 03/2019.
Delegate, Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War, a global coalition of women’s peace organizations, 02/2019-04/2019.
Keynote speaker at universities including Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Pomona College, Wellesley College, the University of Toronto, and Rotary International, 2002-2020.
Member, War Times Collective, 2004-2020.
Columnist, Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies, 2006-2020.
Wrote articles and op-eds including “Sixty Years of Failed Sanctions,” Foreign Policy In Focus, 08/21/2010; “Make 1325 Real for Women’s Peace and Security,” Ms. Magazine, 11/08/2010; “Bring War Dollars Home By Closing Down Bases,” Foreign Policy In Focus, 03/31/2011; “Unwanted Missiles for a Korean Island,” New York Times, 08/05/2011; “Why is North Korea willing to deal on nukes?,” CNN, 03/02/2012; “After 60 Years of Suffering, Time to Replace Korean Armistice with Peace Treaty,” Common Dreams, 07/26/2013; “Giving Women a Role in Korean Peace Negotiations,” New York Times, 09/02/2015; “Let the Peace Games Begin,” Foreign Policy In Focus, 08/22/2016; “War Is Not An Option for Korea,” Foreign Policy In Focus, 03/18/2017; “The North Korea Travel Ban Will Do More Harm Than Good,” New York Times, 08/02/2017; “To Secure Peace Between the Koreas, US Must Declare an End to the War,” Truthout, 09/2018; “Women Marched for Korean Reconciliation, Washington is In Our Way,” The Washington Post, 02/24/2019; “More US Pressure on North Korea Is Not the Path to Denuclearization,” Truthout, 05/2019; and “US Response to Coronavirus in North Korea Can Save Lives and Lead to Peace,” Common Dreams, 04/01/2020.
Webinar panelist including “Undoing 70 Years of War: A Roundtable on Advancing Peace in Korea,” 07/27/2020.
Advisory Council, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 2018-2020.
Co-convener of new Feminist Peace Initiative, 02/02-05/2020.
Co-founder, Executive Director and International Coordinator, Women Cross DMZ, 2015-2020.
Nominated for US Peace Prize, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2020.
Susan L. Allen, PhD is an applied anthropologist whose work includes research, writing, and teaching with the core aim of "updating the human Operating System" -- from a dualistic worldview that leads to extremes and violence and to a holistic view that can suggest ways to move toward healthy balance. slallen@ksu.edu
Organizer K-State Campaign for Nonviolence, a campus and community applied nonviolence education program, www.k-state.edu/nonviolence, 2000.
Created and Directed Nonviolence Education Programs, Kansas State University, including a campus and online Nonviolence Studies Certificate Program, Manhattan, KS, 2000, www.dce.k-state.edu/artsci/nonviolence, 2010.
Director Emerita, Nonviolence Education, Kansas State University, 2010.
Received Awards including the K-State Leadership Program's inaugural award for Progressive Community Leadership, 2010 and the Kansas Peace Award, 2011.
Co-Founder, Kansas Nonviolence Network, 2012.
Member of groups focused on grassroots peace, justice and nonviolence issues including Friendship Cities, People-to-People, Peace Pole Project, SafeZone Program, and Manhattan Alliance for Peace & Justice, 2013.
Founding Member, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2013.
Author, Media Anthropology: Informing Global Citizens, 1994 and The Tao of Nonviolence: Why Nonviolence Matters, 2015.
Anne Anderson, MSW, is a Clinical Social Worker/Psychotherapist with the Washington Therapy Guild, mother of three and grandmother of three, living and working in Washington, DC. mobileanne@comcast.net
Member, Committee to Defend the Conspiracy; attended demonstrations against the Vietnam War at The White House, organized marches, raised money, passed out leaflets, and provided child care so that others could demonstrate, Washington, DC, 1969-1975.
Developed and led workshop "Living Politics," to help people explore their understanding of complex crisis situations, including war, early 1980s.
Moderator, Witness Protection: Third Consultative Working Group on Gender-Specific War Crimes Between the International Criminal Tribunal and The Coordination of Women's Advocacy (which led to the Tribunal declaring rape as a war crime), The Hague, Netherlands, 09/18/1996-09/20/1996.
Developed an International Peace Practitioners Network, which supports peace building and psycho-social work for those suffering from the stresses of war, 1999.
Member of conference planning task force, and administrator and participant in curriculum design, Conference on Ethnopolitical Warfare, co-sponsored by APA, CPA, APA Division 48, SPSSI, and Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR), Salisbury, CT, 08/1999.
Wrote articles: “The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Some psychological issues regarding gender-specific war crimes,” International Conflict Resolution Centre Newsletter, 02/1996; “Resolution strengthens witness programs,” Psychology International, 1997; “The war crime of rape,” with Elenor Richter-Lyonette, Reconciliation International, 06/1997; “War trauma and recovery,” Migration Action, 1998; “Women, war and justice,” Reconciliation International, 08/1998; “Building Cultures of Peace,” Waging Peace Worldwide: Journal of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Spring 1999; “Feminist psychology and global issues: An action agenda,” Women and Therapy, 1999; and “Some Contributions of Psychology to Policies Promoting Cultures of Peace,” with Daniel J. Christie, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace, Psychology Millennium Issue II, 2001.
Contributed book chapters “Feminist Psychology and Global Issues: An Action Agenda,” co-published in Women & Therapy and in Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia, Sara Sharatt and Ellyn Kaschak, Haworth Press, 1999; and “Psychologists Making a Difference in the Public Arena: Building Cultures of Peace,” with Michael Wessells and Milton Schwebel, Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century, D.J. Christie, R.V. Wagner, and D.D. Winter, Prentice Hall, 2001.
Executive Director, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, 1984-2006.
Founding Member, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2006.
Presented papers on various topics at the 4th through 10th global symposia on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, Committee for the Psychological Study of Peace, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007.
Awards including Outstanding Service Award, APA Division 48, The Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology, 2006, and the Grinnell College Alumni Award, for helping others find paths to peace, 2014.
Advisory Board member, PsySR, 2008-2020.
Brooks Anderson, a retired Lutheran pastor who was a chaplain at the University of Minnesota Duluth, is a peace and justice activist in Duluth who took five students with him to march for civil rights from Selma to Montgomery, AL, in 1965. brooksanderson@charter.net
Returned draft card to Selective Service, 1967.
Led and organized anti-Vietnam War activities, Duluth, MN, 1966-1972.
Helped organize weekly vigils in front of the Federal Building to protest U.S. actions in Nicaragua and El Salvador, Duluth, 1980s.
Opened a peace center in Duluth, 1980s.
Attended nuclear freeze rally, Minneapolis, MN, 1982.
Organized Sister Cities relationship between Duluth and Petrozavodsk, Russia, 1987.
Arrested for trespassing at a School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) protest; stood trial, sentenced, served three months in federal prison, and fined $2,500, Columbus, GA, 1999-2000.
Initiated and helped organize a five-day march from Montgomery, AL, to Columbus, GA, as part of a SOAW action, 11/2006.
Made annual protests at SOAW, Fort Benning, GA, 1997-2012.
Helped plan and was delegate to the Duluth-Ranya Friendship Exchange, a grassroots, citizen-to-citizen diplomacy effort with Ranya, Iraq, 2009 and 2013.
Helped establish Sister Cities relationship between Duluth and Ranya, 2014.
Developed plan to declare Duluth a "peacemaking city" and to inspire others to do the same in other cities, 2016.
Founding Member, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2016.
Interviewed by the Minnesota in the Vietnam War Era Oral Project, Minnesota Historical Society, Duluth, 05/07/2018
Philip D. Anderson of Maple, WI, is a retired public servant and military reservist (U.S. Army, Wisconsin Army National Guard, and Naval Reserve, 1975-2002) who is an activist for environmental, labor, social justice, and peace issues. http://duluthreader.com/contributors/p/93/193_phil_anderson
Wrote letters to the editor and op-eds for Middle Wisconsin including Honor the Fallen by Working for Peace, 05/30/2014; Veterans Day Reality, 11/20/2014; and Imagining a Nuclear Free World, 08/01/2015; and the Duluth News Tribune including “Nation overspends our tax money on military, shortchanges us on essentials,” 04/09/2015; “Is a nuclear-free world still possible?,” 08/08/2015; and “All victims of war need our help,” 11/08/2015.
Founding Member, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2015.
Participated in antiwar rallies, 1990-2018.
Tabling of antiwar literature at public events in Duluth, MN, 2012-2018.
Video presentation "Twin Ports Memorial Day Observance," 05/25/2020.
Columnist for Duluth Reader, wrote articles including “Nuclear Madness Continues,” 06/10/2016; “Build Diplomacy Not Bombs,” 03/23/2017; “Peace for Veterans Day,” 11/08/2017; “From Ending War to Endless War,” 11/08/2018; “An Alternative to War,” 06/06/2019; “Choosing a Better Way,” 06/13/2019; “Promoting the next war,” 05/27/2020; and “Got freedom? - Thank an activist,” 06/04/2020.
President, Veterans for Peace, Chapter 80, Duluth, MN, 2014-2020; member 2010-2020.
Michael Andregg, PhD of St. Paul, MN is a retired professor who left medical genetics in 1980 because he thought war was a larger public health hazard than rare diseases he worked on then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Murphy_Andregg
Led a caravan to the UN Special Session on Nuclear Disarmament in 1981.
Founding member of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, 1995.
Wrote a book, On the Causes of War that won the National Peace Writing Award in 1999, has been translated into Italian and reprinted in Canada, 1997.
Coordinated peace activists and others to be involved in responding to the 2008 Republican National Convention, 2007-2008.
Produced video documentary, “Rethinking 9/11: Why Truth and Reconciliation are Better Strategies than Global War,” 2008.
University lectures on causes of war and global problems related to war at the University of Minnesota, 1981-2008 and the University of St. Thomas, 1993-2017.
Speaker, “Peace in the Middle East: Some Nuclear and Demographic Dimensions,” Middle East Peace Now forum, 09/16/2017.
Wrote articles including “The Developing Global Crisis and the Future of Global Security,” Journal of Global Security Studies, 08/07/2014; “Why Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control, Still Matter,” Citizens for Global Solutions blog, 11/27/2018; and “