'Peace Witness' features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.

Dr. Reuwer has been studying, practicing, and teaching alternatives to violence for over 40 years. As retired emergency physician, and adjunct professor of conflict resolution at St. Michael’s College in Vermont, he taught courses on conflict resolution, nonviolent communication and nonviolent action. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War, and on the Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons for Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Dr. Reuwer has served on volunteer unarmed peace teams in Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, Palestine/Israel, and several U.S. inner cities. He deployed in South Sudan for four months in 2019 as an International Protection Officer with the Nonviolent Peaceforce. He was present with the DC Peace Team on January 6, 2021, the day the U.S. Capitol was stormed in an insurrection. While in Ukraine he was inspired by the unarmed International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant on the front line of the war to support their call for a safety zone around the plant. He now chairs the steering committee of the Zaporizhzhya Protection Project.

Richard Northey has been a leader in campaigning for a nuclear free New Zealand since he was a teenager.

He chaired the NZ Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 70’s and ‘80s, and was an MP in the Labour government for three terms between 1984-1996.

Richard was an Auckland City Councillor for many years and currently serves on the Waitemata Local board.

He currently chairs the Peace and Disarmament Collective Aotearoa, formerly known as the Peace Foundation’s International Affairs and Disarmament committee, which he has done for the last 20 years.

Laurie Ross has been promoting the Nuclear Free New Zealand Peacemaking process for over 40 years since arriving in this country from Canada as a teenager with her father, prominent nuclear free activist Larry Ross.

'Peace Witness' features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.

'Peace Witness' features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.

'Peace Witness' features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.

'Peace Witness' features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.

'Peace Witness' features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.

'Peace Witness' features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.

'Peace Witness' features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.