Scilla Elworthy
Scilla Elworthy
Scilla Elworthyis a peace builder, and the founder of the Oxford Research Group, a non-governmental organisation she set up in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, for which she was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. She served as its executive director from 1982 until 2003, when she left that role to set up Peace Direct, a charity supporting local peace-builders in conflict areas. In 2003 she was awarded the Niwano...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth3 June 1943
CountryUnited States of America
Scilla Elworthy quotes about
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
Change happens at the level of the individual
We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.
Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.