Sep 18, 2017
A democracy activist under the repressive Park regime in South Korea, Kim Dae Jung survived three assassination attempts and a death sentence before being elected President of South Korea. He went on to institute the first peace process in history with North Korea....
Sep 18, 2017
John Hume, Architect of the Good Friday Accords, 1998 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Eloquent, humorous and passionate, John Hume became a leading figure in the Irish civil rights movement in the late 1960s, inspiring and leading demonstrations for civil rights for...
Sep 18, 2017
David Trimble was an apparent Protestant “hard liner” when he was elected leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, the mainstream Protestant party in Northern Ireland, in 1995. He surprised both his followers and his opponents when he agreed to meet with John Hume and...
Sep 18, 2017
As its founding coordinator, Jody Williams brought the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) from a handful of six organizations in 1992 to more than 1300 groups from over 85 countries five years later. In September 1997 the campaign achieved its goal of an...
Sep 17, 2017
Norman Borlaug, the “father of the Green Revolution”, lived in developing nations for the best part of five decades, teaching the techniques of high-yield agriculture. The form of agriculture he developed and taught has been credited with saving up to a billion deaths...
