Hildegard Goss-Mayr

Hildegard Goss -Mayr ( born January 22, 1930 in Vienna) is an Austrian peace activist and writer.

Life

Hildegard Goss -Mayr studied in Vienna and in New Haven ( USA) philosophy, philology and history. 1953 she became the first woman doctorate at Vienna University "sub auspiciis ", the highest grade in Austria.

From 1953 she devoted her life on behalf of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation of non-violent Konfliktlösung.1958 she married the French peace activist Jean Goss; the parental couple had twins in 1960.

Services

In 1962, Goss -Mayr their work in Latin America for the development of non-violent liberation movements. She was a consultant Dom Hélder Câmara of. Even the Argentine Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Maria explained influenced by Goss -Mayr. Created for the Second Vatican Council Goss Mayr, along with the theologian Bernard Häring and Karl Rahner proposals to nonviolence et spes found reflected in the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium.

The success of the " rosary revolution" to end the Marcos regime in the Philippines in 1986 and the violent removal of the dictator Ratsiraka in Madagascar in 1991 was also due to their influence and their training groups for the non-violent resistance.

Hildegard Goss -Mayr is the honorary president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and a member of the Honorary Patronage Committee of the International Coalition for the Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.

Awards

Writings

  • The power of non-violence. The Christian and the Revolution at the example of Brazil. Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1968.
  • Man against what is wrong. Spirituality and practice of nonviolent liberation. Europe Verlag, Wien 1976, ISBN 3-203-50597-5
  • The nonviolence of Jesus, in response to the violence of our time. Veritas, Linz 1978, ISBN 3-85329-188-0
  • (Ed.): gift of the poor to the rich. Testimonies from the non-violent struggle of the renewed Church in Latin America. Europe -Verlag, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-203-50707-2
  • Gospel and the struggle for peace. Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1995, ISBN 3-9804408 -0-X
  • UN Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World 2001 - 2010 In: . Andreas Pecha (ed.): Analysis and perspectives of the peace movement in Austria. Roithner, Haid 2002, ISBN 3-9502098-1-6, pp. 311 ff
  • How enemies become friends. My life with Jean Goss for non-violence, justice and reconciliation. With a foreword by Cardinal Franz König. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-451-23930-2; 2nd revised edition: Meinhardt text and design, Idstein 1998, ISBN 3-933325-08-0
  • Elements of quality power explained by means of examples. In: Pete Hämmerle & Thomas Roithner (ed.): The fall in the wheel spokes. Voices of Nobel Peace Prize winners and the Austrian Network for a culture of peace and non-violence. A workbook. Roithner, Haid 2003, ISBN 3-9502098-5-9, pp. 156 ff
Didier Ratsiraka Niwano Peace Prize Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport Integrated Authority File
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