Spring 2008 Archive: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jody Williams
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Jody Williams
April 4, 2008 - 7:00 p.m.
"Reflections on Justice: International Relations in the 21st Century"
The 2nd Annual PeaceJam Northeast Lecture
A Collaborative Presentation by the Springfield Public Forum and Elms College ______________________________________________________________
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Ms. Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to eliminate antipersonnel landmines as the founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). She is only the tenth woman in its one hundred and one year history to be awarded the Peace Prize; she is the third woman from the US to be so honored. International organizer and activist, teacher and writer, Williams is an eloquent speaker on human rights and international law, the role of civil society in international diplomacy, and individual initiative in bringing about social change.
Williams currently serves as a Campaign Ambassador for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which she helped create, speaking on its behalf all over the world. Ms. Williams is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Social Work and Global Justice, in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston. In addition, Ms. Williams has just returned from Darfur, where she served as Chief of Mission of a United Nations delegation investigating the atrocities there.
Prior to beginning the ICBL, Williams worked for eleven years to build public awareness about U.S. policy toward Central America. From 1986 to 1992, she developed and directed humanitarian relief projects as the deputy director of the Los Angeles-based Medical Aid for El Salvador. From 1984 to 1986, she was co-coordinator of the Nicaragua-Honduras Education Project, leading fact-finding delegations to the region. Previously, she taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Washington, D.C.
Williams has a Master's Degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Washington, D.C., 1984), a Master's Degree in Teaching Spanish and ESL from the School for International Training, (Brattleboro, Vermont, 1976), and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont, 1972).
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