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Mairead Corrigan Maguire
(1944-)

Irish Peace Advocate
1976 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

1990 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Peace Leadership Award

birthdate: January 27
birthplace:
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Mairead Corrigan is the cofounder, along with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People, an organization that sought to encourage a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. For their dedication to this effort, they both received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. Mairead Corrigan, a Catholic, became involved in the peace movement after 3 of her sister's children were killed as innocent bystanders in an incident between British troops and an IRA member. She and Betty Williams, a woman who witnessed the event, co-founded Women for Peace (which later became Community for Peace People) to organize petitions and protests for peace. After only a month the two women had organized 35,000 Catholic and Protestant protesters calling for an end to the violence. Mairead Corrigan Maguire has since continued to advocate for a more peaceful world in numerous causes, including continuing as the Honorary President of The Peace People which now works to advocate for peace and nonviolence throughout the world. Believing that education is crucial to transforming our culture of violence into a culture of peace, Mairead Corrigan Maguire has created a peace education curriculum with the nonprofit group, Peace Jam, and is member of the Honorary board of the International Coalition for the Decade of the culture of Peace and Nonviolence. In 1990 Mairead Corrigan was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award, which calls on all people of good will to work for peace between all nations ('Pacem in Terris' is Latin for 'Peace on Earth.')


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