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Timmon Wallis
American peace activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Timmon Wallis is an American author, peace activist, and advocate of nuclear disarmament.[1] As of 2024, he is the executive director of Nuclearban.us and the coordinator of the American Warheads to Windmills coalition.[2]
Biography
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Education
Wallis has as BA in Human Ecology and a PhD in Peace Studies.[3][2]
Career
Wallis has worked with UK organizations Peace Brigades International, Peaceworkers UK, Nonviolent Peaceforce (as executive director),[4] and Peace & Disarmament for Quaker Peace & Social Witness.[5] He spent 7 years camped outside of a nuclear base in England.[1]
Wallis has been an advocate for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which in 2017 outlawed the use of nuclear weapons internationally.[6]
Wallis has directed peacebuilding projects in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Georgia, Myanmar, Chechnya, Croatia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and South Sudan.[6]
His publications include Disarming the Nuclear Argument; The Truth About Trident: Disarming the Nuclear Argument; and Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War.[2][7] He often coincides his books with training workshops in collaboration with organizations like Christian CND, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Pax Christi.[8]
Wallis partnered with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and published his book (likely Warheads to Windmills) shortly before the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize.[5]
Personal life
In 2024, New England Public Media stated that Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson are both authors, activists, and "nobel prize winners for their work on nuclear [dis]armament who fell in love with each other through the cause".[9]
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