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Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland.
Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish peace activist who, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, founded the Peace People, a grassroots movement of both Roman Catholic and Protestant citizens dedicated to ending the sectarian strife in Northern Ireland.
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Mairead Maguire is a co-founder of the Peace People, a movement that promotes nonviolent resolution of the conflict in Northern Ireland. She has also worked for peace and disarmament in Afghanistan, Palestine, and other regions, and authored a book on her vision of peace.
Mairead Maguire co-founded Community for Peace People with Betty Williams to promote nonviolent resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. She also co-founded the Nobel Women's Initiative and campaigned for human rights and justice worldwide.
Máiread Maguire is the cofounder of the peace organization Peace People, headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Maguire was the cowinner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Peace. She is the coauthor of The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland. photograph: Courtesy of Máiread Maguire.
Mairead Maguire is a peace activist from Northern Ireland and a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with Betty Williams in 1976 for their work as co-founders of the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution to violence in Northern Ireland.
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire talks about how she started to work in the peace movement; being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (6:23); the role of women in peace-making (8:34); what Nobel Peace Prize Laureates can do for peace (12:18); the importance of non-violence and ‘green politics’ (17:01); and her thoughts on a lasting solution to the ...
