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Cora Weiss Interviewed by GPF’s Catherine Defontaine

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This is an interview, undertaken in December 2011, between Cora Weiss, president of the Hague Appeal for Peace and UN Representative of the International Peace Bureau, and Global Policy Forum Associate Catherine Defontaine. Cora Weiss describes her role as a peace activist and her engagement against nuclear power and weapons. She explains the importance of Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and argues for an increased participation of women at all levels. Cora Weiss stresses the importance of promoting a culture of peace through education and gives us her thoughts on the future of the peace movement.



By Catherine Defontaine

December, 2011

In December 2011, Global Policy Forum associate Catherine Defontaine interviewed Cora Weiss. Cora Weiss has been a peace activist since the early 1960s. She was a co-founder of Women Strike for Peace, whose role contributed to put an end to nuclear testing in the atmosphere. She was a leader of the anti-Vietnam war movement and organized several demonstrations against the war, in particular the largest and most famous one that took place in Washington DC on November 15, 1969. She has been actively involved in the peace movement, the movement for the advancement of women and the civil rights movement. Cora Weiss is president of the Hague Appeal for Peace and current UN Representative of the International Peace Bureau.


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Part 2

Cora Weiss advocates the implementation of a culture of peace and gives us her thoughts on Occupy Wall Street. Cora Weiss reflects on the future of the peace movement.

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