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The Women’s DMZ Peace Walk generated global media attention and an outpouring of support from world leaders, including Nobel Peace Laureates, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, former US President Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, authors Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Naomi Klein, actor Robert Redford, physician Deepak Chopra, and former UN Ambassador and US Governor Bill Richardson. The Women’s DMZ Peace Walk was made possible by the generous support of hundreds of individual and institutional donors, some of whom we list here.


Institutional Donors

Akonadi Foundation

Amaranth Pediatric Health

Arca Foundation

The Arsenault Family Foundation

Benjamin Fund Inc.

Channel Foundation

Channing and Popai Liem Family Fund

The Chicago Community Foundation

Compton Foundation

Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation

Don and Lore Rasmussen Fund of the Tides Foundation

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Georgia W.A.N.D. Education Fund

Global Fund for Women

Here We Go Liquors, Inc.

Janelia Foundation

Jewish Communal Fund

Kanghan Medical Services P.C.

Livingry Foundation

MPROTECH

National Philanthropic Trust

NoVo Foundation Radical Hope Fund

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Pathfinder Fund

Peace Development Fund

Ploughshares Fund

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Round Hill Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Samuel Rubin Foundation

The San Francisco Foundation

Schwab Charitable Fund

Secure World Foundation

Smartgirl Productions

Starry Night Fund

Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust

Tides Foundation

TNS Plus

United Methodist Women

Urgent Action Fund

War Times

WATER

Womanshare

The Women’s Alliance, All Souls Unitarian Church

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

World Beyond War


Endorsers

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet—Spiritual leader of the Tibetan people

Jimmy Carter—39th President of the United States

Archbishop Desmond Tutu—1984 Nobel Peace Laureate

Rigoberta Menchú Tum—1992 Nobel Peace Laureate, Goodwill Ambassador for the Peace Accords

José Ramos-Horta—1996 Nobel Peace Laureate, former President of Timor-Leste

Jody Williams—1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, Founding Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines

Shirin Ebadi—2003 Nobel Peace Laureate, Founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center

Tawakkol Karman—2011 Nobel Peace Laureate, Founder of Women Journalists Without Chains

Arun Gandhi—Author, Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi

Ev Williams—Co-founder of Twitter, Medium, Blogger

Robert Redford—Actor and filmmaker

Danny Glover—Actor

Deepak Chopra—Physician and Author

Alice Walker—Author and Activist

Noam Chomsky—Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, social justice activist

Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-Jung—Korean Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seoul, de facto Primate of Korea

Cora Weiss—President, Hague Appeal for Peace

Bill Richardson—Diplomat and Former Governor of New Mexico, United States

Bruce Cumings—Professor, University of Chicago

Eve Ensler—Playwright and Founder of V-Day, USA

Elizabeth Holtzman—Former Member of the US Congress, Attorney

David Krieger—President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Richard Falk—Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus. Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Emeritus. Princeton University

Helen Caldicott—Physician, Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibilityy

Patch Adams—Physician, Activist, and Author

Robert Aldridge—Advisor, British American Security Information Council and Founder, Pacific Life Research Center

Fadi Abi Allam—President, Permanent Peace Movement, Lebanon

Ms. Lydia I. Alpízar—Association for Women’s Rights in Development. Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Lic. Miguel Alvarez-Gandara—Founder, Director, and Coordinator of SERAPAZ (Servicios y Asesoria para la Paz) – Mexico, Trustee of International Committee for the Peace Council

Xavier F. Amador—Founder and Director, LEAP Institute, New York, USA

Colin Archer—Secretary-General, International Peace Bureau

John Scales Avery—Chairman, Danish Peace Academy

Walden Bello—Foremer Congress Member, Republic of Philippines

Maria Bello—Actor and Activist

Liz Bernstein—Executive Director, Nobel Women’s Initiative

Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls—Founder, FemLINKPACIFIC; Chair, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), Member, UN Civil Society Advisory Group on UNSCR1325/Women, Peace and Security

Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director—International Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Ana Bourse—Executive Director, Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (CRIES) (Argentina) / GPPAC \Regional Representative

Reiner Braun—Executive Director, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms

Charlotte Bunch—Founder, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University

Helen Caldicott—Physician, Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility

Paul Chappell—Author

Paulette Cole—CEO, ABC Home

Peter Coyote—Actor and Director

Brett de Bary—Professor, Cornell University

Wendi Deetz—Operations Manager, Global Fund for Women

Fiona Dove—Director, Transnational Institute

Prof. Joseph W. Elder—President, International Committee for the Peace Council

Daniel Ellsberg—Pentagon Papers whistleblower, Right Livelihood Award winner

Cynthia Enloe—Research Professor, Clark University

John Feffer—Director, Foreign Policy in Focus

David Finegold—Chief Academic Officer, American Honors and Former Professor and Dean, Rutgers University

Ekkehard Forberg—Manager Peacebuilding and Advocacy, World Vision Germany

Jane Fountain—Distinguished Professor, Founder and Director of the National Center for Digital Governance, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Bruce Gagnon—Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

Dr. Daniel A. Gomez-Ibanez—Founder and former executive director, International Committee for the Peace Council. Founder and former Executive Director, Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions. Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Jonathan Granoff—President, Global Security Institute

MP Annette Groth—Member of Parliament, Germany

MP Heike Haensel—Member of Parliament, Germany

Tone Olaf Nielsen—Director of CAMP (Center for Art on Migration Politics), Copenhagen

Frederikke Hansen—Director, Center for Art on Migration Politics (CAMP)

David Hartsough—Director, Peaceworkers

Raisa Kadyrova—President of Foundation for Tolerance International, GPPAC Central Asia Regional Representative (Kyrgyz Republic)

Mr. Jim Kenney—Executive Director, Interreligious Engagement Project (IEP21). Formerly Global Director, Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.

Dr. Irfan Ahmad Khan—Islamic scholar and author. Founder, World Muslim Council for Interfaith Relations. Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Dr. Sallie B. King—Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Virginia). Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Frances Kissling—Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy and former President, Catholics for Choice

Naomi Klein—Journalist, Columnist and Author

Judy Kluger—Executive Director, Sanctuary For Families and former Judge, New York State

Dr. Paul Knitter—Professor Emeritus of Theology, Xavier University, Cincinnatti, Ohio (USA). Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Sr. Marcelline Koch, OP—Member: Leadership team, Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois (USA); Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Ms. Mary LaMar—President, Wisconsin Branch, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship; Director, SEVA Foundation; Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Namhee Lee—Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Hali Lee—Founder, Asian Women Giving Circle, New York, USA

Rev. Steve Minnema—Senior Pastor, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Madison, Wisconsin (USA). Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Chandra Talpade Mohanty—Professor, Syracuse University

Luisa Morgantini—Italian Member of European Parliament

Clare Munn—Zimbabwean woman activist

Holly Near—Singer and Songwriter

Tone Olaf Nielsen—Director, Center for Art on Migration Politics (CAMP)

Ana L. Oliveira—President, New York Women’s Foundation

Glenn Durland Paige—Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai‘I and Chair of Governing Council, Center for Global Nonkilling

Parker J. Palmer—Author and Founder, Center for Courage & Renewal

Kavita Ramdas—Executive Director, Program on Social Entrepreneurship,Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University and former President and CEO,Global Fund for Women.

Diane Randall—Executive Director, Friends Committee on National Legislation

Jack Rendler—North Korea Country Specialist, Amnesty International

Ludo C.P. Scheffer—Professor, Drexel University

Vandana Shiva—Environmental Activist, Author, 1993 Right Livelihood Award Winner

Alice Slater—NY Director, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Coordinating Committee Member, Abolition 2000

Ven. Geshe Lhundup Sopa—Director, Deer Park Tibetan Buddhist Center. Trustee Emiritus, International Committee for the Peace Council

Steven Starr—Associate, Nuclear Age Peace Founation and Board Member and Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility, University of Missouri

David Swanson—Director, World Beyond War

John Udelhofen—Certified Public Accountant. Chief Financial Officer, Prefinished Millwork Corp. Trustee, International Committee for the Peace Council

Peter van Tuijl—Executive Director, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)

Marianne Williamson—Spiritual Teacher and Author

Marilyn Young—Professor, New York University

Heather Booth—Founder, President Midwest Academy, Democracy Partners, USA

Carole Artigiani—Founder, President Emerita, Global Kids, USA

GABRIELA Philippines—An alliance of more than 200 women’s organizations that address human rights, poverty, militarism, violence, and other issues affecting women

Yasmin Louise Sooka—Executive Director: Foundation for Human Rights, South Africa; Former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner, South Africa; Former Truth Commissioner, Sierra Leone

Barry A. Fisher, esq.—International human rights lawyer (worked for final settlement of Holocaust lawsuits)

Jane Kagon—Executive Director, Robert F. Kennedy Legacy in Action

Gale A. Brewer—Manhattan Borough President, New York, USA

Mary L. Schwanke—Professor Emerita of Biology, University of Maine, USA

Amy J. Davidoff—Professor of Pharmacology, University of New England, USA

Isabelle Geuskens—Executive Director Women Peacemakers Program

Mary Ingouville Burton—Human rights activist ​and former national President of Black Sash (women against apartheid)​; ​Commissioner​, ​​South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1995-1998).


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