Alyn Ware

Alyn Ware ( b. 1962 in Tauranga, New Zealand) is a New Zealand pacifist and peace activist. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award.

Biography

Ware suggested an educational career after a completed his schooling and was trained as a primary school teacher. He worked in a nursery and had even then recognize pacifist features. In the 1980s he founded the Mobile Peace Van Society, the pacifist upbringing of children prescribed, and traveled to his home country to lecture at numerous kindergartens and schools about the reason and the benefits of peace. In 1987, goods involved in a major demonstration in his home country, which had set itself the goal that New Zealand in the future remains a nuclear-free zone.

In the 1990s, commodity lived in New York and worked for the Gulf Peace Team with the intent to prevent the Gulf War, which he was not able. Also for the United Nations was goods in this period worked, he participated, for example in the creation of an international tribunal.

Between 1992 and 1999, served as chairman of the goods Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, a U.S. company that opposed the use of nuclear weapons. Goods made ​​important contributions to several UN resolutions, in which the violation of international law should be examined by nuclear weapons. It was decided that the use of nuclear weapons would in fact against the law of nations, which meant that the States had to disarm nuclear weapons with weapons of this kind.

A year prior to that decision founded a commodity society, Abolition 2000, who wanted to bring about a general abolition of nuclear weapons. The project was crowned in the first years of success and already possessed quickly over 2,000 affiliates worldwide. 2009, a bill by the UN General Assembly adopted by a large majority.

He is a council member of the World Future Council.

Goods in 2009 was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, which is unofficially dubbed as the alternative Nobel Prize. The reasoning of the committee that chose him, was, among other things, that he had made ​​strong for two decades for a nuclear-free world.

Awards

  • 2009: Right Livelihood Award

Swell

  • CV Wares
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  • Portrait of goods on ZEIT ONLINE
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