People who promote world peace International Peace Bureau

World 14:23 27.10.2016

Let's know the people who play an important role for expanding peace movement and made the world more peaceful place as well.The work of the International Peace Bureau is noteworthy . This organisation has an effective and influential role for more peaceful world.

1.Bruce Kent (UK) -IPB President 1985-1994

He is a British political activist and a former Roman Catholic priest. Active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), he was the organization’s general secretary from 1980 to 1985 and its chair from 1987 to 1990. He now holds the honorary title of vice-president. In 1960 he joined the Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,[2] a specialist section of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

2.Maj-Britt Theorin (Swedeen)-IPB Presiden 1994-2000

She is a Swedish social democratic politician and diplomat, Ph.D h c. She served as a member of the Parliament of Sweden from 1971 to 1995, and as a Member of the European Parliament from 1995 to 2004 and President of the Committee of Women´s Right and Equality in EP and a member of the Committee of Foreign Affairs and Security in EP and a member of the board from EP of ACP; African Caribbean Pacific. Dr Theorin is former Swedish Ambassador for Disarmament in charge of Swedish disarmament policy (1982-1991). Dr Theorin was Chairperson of the UN Commission of Experts on Nuclear Weapons (1989-90), Chairperson of the UN Study on Military and the Environment (1990-91), Chairperson of the UN Expert Group on Women and the Agenda for Peace (1994) and Member of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (1995-96). Dr Theorin is former President of the International Peace Bureau and of Parliamentarians for Global Action. Dr Theorin is President of the umbrella union of six women´s and peace league "Operation 1325" in Sweden and member of the board of UN Women Sweden. She was President of the International Peace Bureau from 1992 to 2000, following Bruce Kent. She has also served as Swedish Ambassador for Disarmament.

3. Cara Weiss (USA)-IPB President 2000-2006

She has served as president of the International Peace Bureau and the Hague Appeal for Peace ,was a representative of the Peace Action Network and a steering committee member of the Peace and Security Funders Group, served as a financier and board member of the Institute for Policy Studies and directed the Disarmament Program at New York's Riverside Church in the late 1970s and early 1980s and during the Vietnam War, Weiss attempted to coerce the families of American POWs to make pro-communist propaganda by promising them contact with their loved ones in Hanoi.

4.Tomas Magnusson (Sweeden)-IPB President 2006-2010

He joined the peace movement at the age of 18, and so this became a lifetime commitment .He said that I did not find exit door."IPB has been close to my heart for many years, still is. I do think that the peace movement needs coordination and strategies, because we have so many challenges and we need to be effective".

5.Ingeborg Breines (Norway) IPB Co-President 2010-2016

She is former director in UNESCO e.g. on Women and a culture of peace and UNESCO representive to Pakistan and to the UN in Geneva. Board member of several peace-related organizations in Norway.

"For the survivol of humanity and the planet , a shift in priorities is urgently needed. Let us wrie a plan for a new,gener-sensitive ,non-militaristic social order".

6.Reiner Braun (Germany)- IPB Co-President 2013--

He is a director of the German and international IALANA, Founding members of INES. The experiences of the old and new spirit of the young and new will hopefully create an atmosphere of powerful discussions, opening and actions.

7.Lisa Clark has been elected the Co-Presidents of IPB from 2016 till 2019.

Founder and Chairman of the International Eurasia Peace Fund (IEPF) Umud Mirzayev have been elected as the representatives of the Western Asian countries for the next three years.

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