Women
as Peace Makers
Famous women in history and the conflict they
managed or took part in:
Amy Biehl : apartheid in South Africa
Dr Caldicott : nuclear war
Aung San Suu Kyi :Myanmar and non violent fight for peace
Ann Frank : WW2
Nancy Harkness Love : pilot (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
Rosa parks : Civil rights
Harriet Tubman : Underground Railroad
Benazir Bhutto : Pakistan
Golda Meir : Israel
Unarmed and under fire: An oral history of female Vietnam vets
Mother Theresa and Indira Gandhi : India
Brenda Berkman : a woman 911 firefighter
<>http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/769
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Eva Peron : Argentina
Other links to
famous women's biographies
http://myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/index.asp
(see angels and peace makers)
http://nobelprize.org/peace/articles/heroines/ (9 Nobel peace prize
winners)
A list of links to sites with biographies of famous women