Desmond Tutu was an Anglican Bishop (now retired), Nobel Peace Prize winner, and social rights activist who fought to end apartheid through nonviolence.
Category: Biographical Stories
Lech Wałesa
Peacemaker Daniel Buttry profiles the Polish-Catholic Solidarity activist Lech Walesa who helped to lead his people in overthrowing a Communist regime.
Václav Havel (1936-2011)
Václav Havel was the artist/activist who led the Velvet Revolution, ending Communist power in Czechoslovakia, later democratically voted in as president.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Global peace activist Daniel Buttry profiles the courageous life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian author whose books revealed Soviet oppression.
Daniel Hunter
Daniel Hunter is a peace trainer & activist who often mingles humor with direct action. He also wrote a book about his campaign against casinos in Philadelphia.