Irish Housewife-Turned-Peace-Heroine Betty Williams To Give Lecture In Santa Monica 08/24/09
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SANTA MONICA, CA – Soka Gakkai International-USA’s Culture of Peace Resource Center in Santa Monica will host a lecture with 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Betty Williams on Sunday September 23 at 1:00pm.
Ms. Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire – were awarded the Prize for their work in forming the Community of Peace People, a grass-roots movement to end the violence in Northern Ireland. In the thirty years since, Ms. Williams has devoted her life to fighting against the injustices, cruelty and horrors perpetrated on the children of the world. She has called for the creation of safe havens for children endangered by war or social upheaval. The first such “City of Compassion” for children is now being built in the Basilicata Region of southern Italy.
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Ms. Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire – were awarded the Prize for their work in forming the Community of Peace People, a grass-roots movement to end the violence in Northern Ireland. In the thirty years since, Ms. Williams has devoted her life to fighting against the injustices, cruelty and horrors perpetrated on the children of the world. She has called for the creation of safe havens for children endangered by war or social upheaval. The first such “City of Compassion” for children is now being built in the Basilicata Region of southern Italy.
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