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I am an educator, organiser and campaigner in the areas of peace, non-violence, nuclear abolition, international law, human rights (including gender and children’s rights) and the environment.

I am also vegetarian (for ethical and environmental reasons), a novice musician and songwriter, recreational runner and skiier, and former squash player. I have one daughter and two grandchildren.

I was born in Aotearoa-New Zealand (Aotearoa is the indigenous name for the country) and have lived in the USA and Switzerland. I currently live in Prague.

My main work roles are:

• Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferaton and Disarmament;
• Director of the Basel Peace Office;
• Coordinator of the World Future Council Peace & Disarmament Program;
• International Representative for the NZ Peace Foundation (Te Tuapapa Rongomau o Aotearoa);
• Peace and International Security Officer for the United Nations Association of New Zealand;
• Co-founder and webmaster of UNFOLD ZERO;
• Co-founder and webmaster of Move the Nuclear Weapons Money;
• Coordinating Committee Member of Abolition 2000.

For more background please visit My Story or Alyn Ware wikipedia.

Contact: alyn@pnnd.org.

 

Some of my most rewarding moments in life:

• Getting up early to play tennis with my father before breakfast when I was young;
• River rafting the Kaituna River (a beautiful grade 5 stretch of river);
• Helping peace studies get adopted into the New Zealand curriculum;
• Birth of Ra my daughter (a water-birth);
• DJing for the a dance party of 8000 people from 100 countries (the Hague Peace Appeal Party, 1999);
• Climbing Mt Ruapehu with my nephews;
• Scree jumping Mt Tarawera crater with daughter Ra;
• Running the New York marathon with the Peace and Sport team led by Tegla Loroupe (the first African woman to win the NY marathon);
• Winning the case against nuclear weapons which we took to the World Court (International Court of Justice);
• Being invited to perform a song I composed ‘Aotearoa Nuke free zone’ at a Nobel Peace Concert in Oslo on the day President Obama got the prize;
• Winning the crib cup from my sister Sue (a rare event);
• Touring Czech chateaus and nature parks with my parents and girlfriend;
• Winning the Right Livelihood Award (‘alternative Nobel Peace Prize’).

Some of my biggest disappointments in life:

• Getting 99% on School Certificate Mathematics and having no idea which question I got wrong:
• Al Gore losing the U.S. President election to George Bush Jr due to disqualified votes in Florida;
• A 10-year long, vicious smear campaign against me and my key organisations by ICAN (a so-called peace organisation).

Life motto:
Replace hatred with love, falsehood with truth and fear with hope.
The main teaching from Mildred Lisette Norma (Peace Pilgrim) who walked over 40,000 km for peace.