DR. SCILLA ELWORTHY VOICE OF A WOMAN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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Dr. Scilla Elworthy PhD - THE VOICE OF A WOMAN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2013.
Dr. Scilla Elworthy founded the Oxford Research Group in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, work which included a series of dialogues between Chinese, Russian and western nuclear scientists and military, and which formed the basis for later treaties.
She founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas, leading to the acceptance by the UN of the value and cost effectiveness of ‘locally-led’ initiatives. Peace Direct was voted ‘Best New Charity’ in 2005.
Scilla was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003; she has been three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was adviser to Peter Gabriel, Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders.’ Director of programmes for the World Peace Festival Berlin August 2011, and programme co-ordinator for the Celebrate Life Festival near Bremen in 2012. She is chair of the Civil Society sector of the Hanwang Forum in China, a platform to enable China to drive the development of an inclusive, ethical, resilient global society at scale and with a sense of urgency. She’s a Councillor of the World Future Council, patron of Gender Rights and Equality Action Trust, Voice of a Woman, and Oxford Research Group; Adviser to MasterPeace - a new international bottom-up peace initiative - and to Self Knowledge Global Responsibility – spreading the experience that self-awareness can lead to a powerfully fulfilling life of service. She is a member of the Steering Committee of PAX, a service to help prevent wars and genocides, and of the International Advisory Council of the Institute for Economics and Peace. She is author of numerous books and articles:
- 2006 Co-author: Making Terrorism History (Random House, London).
- 2009 Co-author: Soul Power (BookSurge).
- 2010 Tools For Peace (World Peace Partnership)
- 2010 Is it time for a worldwide strategy for the building of peace? (Open Democracy)
- 2011 Peace can be planned. Just like health (Open Democracy)
- 2011 Feast with your enemies - Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Open Democracy)
- 2012 Peace Begins With Me (Genesis)
- 2013 IMAGINE what the future could be (forthcoming)
