Betty Williams

Betty Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in bringing peace in her native Northern Ireland. She is founder of the Global Children's Studies Center and founder of the World Centers of Compassion for Children.She co-founded, with Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Ciaran McKeown, Peace People, a protest movement committed to building a just and peaceful society through nonviolent social action to bring peace to Northern Ireland.  In the thirty years since the award, Mrs. Williams has devoted her life to creating a new way forward, a movement to begin a reversal of thinking on how we deal with the injustices, cruelty and horror perpetrated on the world’s children.  Mrs. Williams has traveled the globe recording the testimonies of children who have been subjected to horrors beyond belief.  The other obvious fact is that every country where children are under the threat of death and destruction, safe areas must be created, areas off limits to any form of military attack.

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