ADM Nevelskoy Maritime State University
Russian Federation
Anastasia Barannikova is a research fellow at ADM Nevelskoy Maritime State University in Vladivostok, Russia, and a security expert.
Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation
USA
Bonnie Jenkins is the founder and executive director of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Ploughshares Fund
USA
Catherine Killough is the Roger L. Hale Fellow at Ploughshares Fund, where she researches North Korea’s nuclear and missile development and promotes diplomatic solutions to the U.S.-North Korea nuclear crisis.
Women Cross DMZ
USA
Christine Ahn is the founder and international coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War, reunite families, and ensure women’s leadership in the peace-building process.
Indivisible Project
USA
Elizabeth Beavers is an attorney and analyst focusing on foreign policy, national security, human rights, and civil liberties. She is the associate policy director at the Indivisible Project, leading strategic grassroots advocacy to protect issues of peace, democracy, and rights under threat by the Trump administration.
Korean Women’s Movement for Peace
Republic of Korea
Hyun-Sook Lee is a founding member of Korean Women’s Movement for Peace, the honorary representative of Women’s Forum for Peace and Diplomacy and a member of President’s Advisory Group for the inter-Korean Summit.
Woodrow Wilson Center, Canada Institute
USA
Jacqueline O’Neill is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Canada Institute and former president of the D.C.-based Institute for Inclusive Security.
Women Making Peace
Republic of Korea
Ahn-Kim Jeong-Ae is a member of Women Making Peace, an organization that seeks to make a peaceful world without violence and discrimination, and by gathering the strength of women, realize reunification and peace on the Korean peninsula, and beyond it, peace for the entire world.
Korea Women’s Alliance
Republic of Korea
Jin-mi Choi is a representative of the Korea Women’s Alliance, the Southern Committee on June 15th North-South Joint Declaration Joint Women’s Division, and the Realization of National Action for Peace Against the War.
Nobel Women’s Initiative
USA
Jody Williams is an outspoken peace activist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work as founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Since January of 2006, she has chaired the Nobel Women’s Initiative.
PeaceWomen Across the Globe
Hong Kong
Kin Chi Lau is an international board member of PeaceWomen Across the Globe, the global network of the 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. She teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Japan
Kozue Akibayashi was the international president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) from 2015-2018. She is a steering committee member of Women Cross DMZ, and a part of the International Women’s Network Against Militarism.
Nobel Women’s Initiative
Canada
Liz Bernstein is the founding director of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, which brings together six women Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to spotlight, amplify, and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and feminist peace movements around the world.
Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)
Australia
Meri Joyce is the international coordinator of Peace Boat, a Japan-based international organization that works to promote peace, human rights, equal and sustainable development and respect for the environment. She is also the regional secretariat for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) in Northeast Asia, and regional liaison officer for GPPAC in the region.
The National YWCA of Korea
Republic of Korea
Mimi Han is an executive board member of the National YWCA of Korea, vice president of World YWCA, vice chairperson of international affairs of the National Council of Churches in Korea, and board member of Women Migrants Human Rights Center of Korea.
Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM)
Japan
Mina Watanabe is the director of the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, which conducts exhibitions, seminars, and fact-finding research focused on violence against women in war and conflict situations, particularly on the issue of Japan’s military sexual slavery.
United Church of Canada
Canada
Patti Talbot has served as national staff of the United Church of Canada for 25 years and currently leads the United Church’s Global Partnerships team, with direct responsibility for partnerships in northeast Asia.
Korea National Peace Committee
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
So-Hyon Yun is a member of the Korea National Peace Committee.
Korea National Peace Committee
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Su-Kyong Jong is a member of the Korea National Peace Committee.
Women Cross DMZ
USA
Suzy Kim is a co-founder of Women Cross DMZ. She is a historian of modern Korea and serves on the faculty at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is the Korea specialist for Amnesty International USA, and an advisory board member for Truth Foundation.
Korea National Peace Committee
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Yong-Hye Song is a member of the Korea National Peace Committee.
Korean Women’s Movement for Peace
Republic of Korea
Young-mi Cho is the coordinator of Korean Women’s Movement for Peace, a newly formed national coalition that works to collect grassroots women’s voices to advocate for peace, gender equality, and a world without war. She is also a lecturer in the department of social welfare at Chung-Ang University in Seoul and an advisory committee member of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in the Republic of Korea.
