2020/2021 Outstanding Peace Activist

Dr. Scillia Elworthy turns vision into action. Today, her full attention is on developing the Business Plan for Peace (www.thebusinessplanforpeace.org), which stems from her 2017 book, The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War. Her TED talk on nonviolence has been viewed by over 1,400,000 people on TED and YouTube. Peace Direct continues to thrive under brilliant young leadership; it was founded by Scilla in 2002 to fund, promote, and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas. Scilla served as an adviser to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in establishing “The Elders” and was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003. She has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize for developing effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policymakers worldwide and their critics through the Oxford Research Group, founded in 1982.