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Also Known As Elizabeth Williams
Born May 22, 1943 • Northern Ireland
Died March 17, 2020 (aged 76) • Belfast • Northern Ireland
Founder World Centers of Compassion for Children International
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1976)
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Irish leader
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Guatemalan activist
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Sir Norman Angell
British economist
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American civil rights activist and religious leader
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president of South Africa
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Iranian journalist and human rights activist
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Soviet physicist and dissident
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Al Gore
vice president of United States
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Kailash Satyarthi
Indian social reformer
Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee
Liberian activist
José Ramos-Horta
José Ramos-Horta
president of East Timor
Balch, Emily Greene
Emily Greene Balch
American political scientist
Tawakkol Karman
Tawakkol Karman
Yemeni women’s rights activist
Ludwig Quidde.
Ludwig Quidde
German historian and politician
Bertha, baroness von Suttner.
Bertha, baroness von Suttner
Austrian author
Carl von Ossietzky
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Estournelles de Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'
Paul-H.-B. d’Estournelles de Constant
French diplomat