Mairead Maguire is one of the 5 Nobel Peace Prize laureates who have accepted to join the International High Level Committee for the freedom of Marwan Barghouthi and all Palestinian prisoners.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire was awarded the l976 Nobel Peace Prize for her extra-ordinary actions to help end the deep ethnic/political conflict in her native Northern Ireland. She shares the award with Betty Williams.
Mairead was the aunt of the three Maguire children who died as a result of being hit by an Irish Republican
Army getaway car after its driver was shot by a British soldier. Mairead responded to the violence facing her
Family and community by organizing, together with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, massive peace
demonstrations appealing for an end to the bloodshed, and a nonviolent solution to the conflict.
Together, the three co-founded the Peace People, a movement committed to building a just and nonviolent
society in Northern Ireland. Mairead currently serves as Hon. President. (www.peacepeople.com) The Peace People organized each week, for six months, peace rallies throughout Ireland and the UK. These were attended by many thousands of people, mostly women, and during this time there was a 70% decrease in the rate of violence.
Since receiving the award, Mairead has dedicated her life to promoting disarmament and peace, both in Northern Ireland and around the world. Working with community groups throughout Northern Ireland, political and church Leaders, she has sought to promote dialogue and conflict resolution, in order to bring about a nonkilling, nonviolent society and world.
A graduate from Irish School of Ecumenics, Mairead, a pacifist, works with inter-church and inter-faith organizations and is a councillor with the International Peace Council. She is a Patron of the Methodist Theological College, and Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education. She has worked extensively in the Middle East believing that Peace is possible and we can all do something to help each other,as the Human Family, to bring about peace and justice.
Mairead is Author of ‘The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland’
Mairead Corrigan Maguire was awarded the l976 Nobel Peace Prize for her extra-ordinary actions to help end the deep ethnic/political conflict in her native Northern Ireland. She shares the award with Betty Williams.
Mairead was the aunt of the three Maguire children who died as a result of being hit by an Irish Republican
Army getaway car after its driver was shot by a British soldier. Mairead responded to the violence facing her
Family and community by organizing, together with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, massive peace
demonstrations appealing for an end to the bloodshed, and a nonviolent solution to the conflict.
Together, the three co-founded the Peace People, a movement committed to building a just and nonviolent
society in Northern Ireland. Mairead currently serves as Hon. President. (www.peacepeople.com) The Peace People organized each week, for six months, peace rallies throughout Ireland and the UK. These were attended by many thousands of people, mostly women, and during this time there was a 70% decrease in the rate of violence.
Since receiving the award, Mairead has dedicated her life to promoting disarmament and peace, both in Northern Ireland and around the world. Working with community groups throughout Northern Ireland, political and church Leaders, she has sought to promote dialogue and conflict resolution, in order to bring about a nonkilling, nonviolent society and world.
A graduate from Irish School of Ecumenics, Mairead, a pacifist, works with inter-church and inter-faith organizations and is a councillor with the International Peace Council. She is a Patron of the Methodist Theological College, and Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education. She has worked extensively in the Middle East believing that Peace is possible and we can all do something to help each other,as the Human Family, to bring about peace and justice.
Mairead is Author of ‘The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland’
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