Jody Williams
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Websites : International Campaign to Ban Landmines, PeaceJam, Nobel Women's Initiative

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BIOGRAPHY

Jody Williams is an American activist who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). In 1997 she and the campaign were named co-recipients of the Nobel Prize for Peace. She served as co-coordinator of the Nicaragua-Honduras Education Project (1984–86) and deputy director of Medical Aid for El Salvador (1986–92). In October 1992, with the cooperation of six international organizations, she coordinated the launch of the ICBL with the mission of abolishing the use of antipersonnel land mines. In December 1997 the Mine Ban Treaty was signed by more than 100 countries.

Williams lectures widely on the dangers of land mines, publicizing the presence of millions of unexploded land mines in countries around the world. She is author or coauthor of After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring Legacy of Landmines (1995), Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security (2008), and My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize (2013). Williams was named as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world by Forbes magazine in 2004.

photograph: John Murphy Aurora PA

 

Primary Contributions (2)
land mine victim
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), international coalition of organizations in some 100 countries that was established in 1992 to ban the use, production, trade, and stockpiling of antipersonnel land mines. In 1997 the coalition was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, which it shared…
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Publications (3)
My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize (Volume 25)
My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize (Volume 25) (March 2013)
By Jody Williams
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, “Jody Williams is many things―a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist.”From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth woman―and third American woman―to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,...
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Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security (National State Papers (rl)
Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security (National State Papers (rl) (March 2008)
Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian assistance provisions of the treaty, as well as efforts to promote universal acceptance of the treaty among governments and non-state armed groups. The second half of this book considers the impact of the landmine movement on other issues (such...
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After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring Legacy of Landmines
After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring Legacy of Landmines (December 1995)
By Shawn Roberts, Jody Williams
Years after peace treaties have been signed and military conflict is nominally over, anti-personnel mines continue to claim innocent lives. This text offers data showing that landmines victimize civilians in direct contravention of the Geneva convention and examines the impact landmines have on people, on their communities and on their outlook and view of life. The report, commissioned by the VVAF, examines the consequences of landmine use on post-conflict reconstruction and development, on refugee...
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