Alyn Ware
Alyn Ware (* 1962 in Tauranga , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand pacifist and peace activist . He is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award .
Life
Ware embarked on a pedagogical career after completing his school days and trained as an elementary school teacher. He worked in a kindergarten and even then showed pacifist features. In the 1980s he founded the Mobile Peace Van Society , which was dedicated to the pacifist upbringing of children, and traveled to his home country to teach at numerous kindergartens and schools on the reasons and benefits of peace. In 1987 Ware took part in a large demonstration in his home country with the aim of ensuring that New Zealand remains a nuclear weapon-free area in the future .
In the 1990s, Ware lived in New York and worked there for the Gulf Peace Team with the intention of preventing the Gulf War , which he did not succeed. During this time, Ware also worked for the United Nations , for example taking part in the creation of an international court of justice.
Between 1992 and 1999, Ware served as chairman of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy , a US society that opposed the use of nuclear weapons. Ware made an important contribution to several UN resolutions in which the illegality of nuclear weapons should be investigated. It was decided that the use of nuclear weapons was in fact contrary to international law, which meant that states with nuclear weapons had to disarm weapons of this type.
A year before this decision, Ware founded a company, Abolition 2000 , which wanted to effect a general abolition of nuclear weapons. The project was crowned with success in the first few years and quickly had more than 2000 subsidiaries worldwide. In 2009 a bill was passed by the UN Assembly with a large majority.
He is a member of the World Future Council and advisor to the Presidium of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms .
In 2009 Ware was awarded the Right Livelihood Award , which is unofficially dubbed an alternative Nobel Prize . The justification of the committee that decided in favor of him was, among other things, that he had campaigned for a world free of nuclear weapons for two decades.
Awards
- 2009: Right Livelihood Award
literature
- Alyn Ware , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 05/2010 from February 2, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- CV Wares
- Small portrait of goods at Spiegel Online , 2009
- Portrait about goods at Zeit Online , 2009
- Video interview with Alyn Ware about the Nuclear Weapons Convention
- Portrait at rightlivelihoodaward.org (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ware, Alyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand pacifist and peace activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tauranga , New Zealand |