Peace activist and author Daniel Buttry profiles Vedran Smajlović (b. 1956), better known as “The Cellist of Sarajevo,” and includes a video of the piece.
Category: Europe
Simone Weil (1909-1943)
Simone Weil was an activist who fought on behalf of the marginalized. She was a philosopher and Christian mystic influenced by many spiritual traditions.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Peace activist Daniel Buttry, author of ‘Blessed Are the Peacemakers,’ profiles the famous German theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945).
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.