page_title: List of peace activists
section_title: W
hierarchical_section_title: List of peace activists / W
caption_attribution_description: Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams at Quinnipiac University
context_page_description: This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall anti-war and peace movements to focus the world's attention on what they perceive to be the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating to, and held in place by, the various violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.
context_section_description: Lillian Wald (1867–1940) – American nurse, writer, human rights activist, suffragist and pacifist
  Julia Grace Wales (1881–1957) – Canadian academic and pacifist
  John Wallach (1943–2002) – American journalist, founder of Seeds of Peace
  Alyn Ware (born 1962) – New Zealand peace educator and campaigner, global coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament since 2002
  Roger Waters (born 1943) - English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd, and prominent anti-war activist
  Christopher Weeramantry (born 1926) – President of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms, former Sri Lankan Supreme Court Judge
  Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1878–1944) – American historian, feminist and pacifist
  Owen Wilkes (1940–2005) – New Zealand peace researcher and activist
  Anita Parkhurst Willcox (1892–1984) – American artist, feminist, pacifist
  Betty Williams (1943–2020) – Nobel peace laureate for her work towards bringing about reconciliation in Northern Ireland
  Jody Williams (born 1950) – American anti-landmine advocate and organizer, Nobel peace laureate
  Waldo Williams (1904–1971) – Welsh language poet, Christian pacifist and Quaker, opposed the Korean War and conscription, imprisoned for refusing to pay taxes which could fund war
  George Willoughby (1914–2010) – American Quaker peace activist, co-founder of the Movement for a New Society
  Brian Willson (born 1941) – American veteran, peace activist and lawyer
  Lawrence S. Wittner (born 1941) – American peace historian, researcher, and movement activist
  Lilian Wolfe (1875–1974) – British anarchist, pacifist, feminist
  Walter Wolfgang (born 1923) – German-born British activist
  Ann Wright (born 1947) – retired US colonel and State Department official who resigned in opposition to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, becoming a peace activist and antiwar campaigner.
  Louise Wright (1861–1935) – Danish philanthropist, feminist and peace activist
  Mien van Wulfften Palthe (1875–1960) – Dutch feminist, suffragist and pacifist
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caption: Jody Williams
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