Ciaran McKeown left PRIO in 1977. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
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Tuesday, 17 Dec 2019
In Memoriam Ciaran McKeown (1943–2019)
In 1976, two women peace activists from Northern Ireland, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams were awarded ‘the People’s Peace Price’, an alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize set up and funded by Norwegian NGOs. The following year, they were awarded the real Nobel Peace Prize (for 1976) for ‘tackling so fearlessly the perilous task of leading the way into no-man’s land, in the cause of peace and reconciliation’, in the words of the presentation speech by the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s Deputy Chair.
A key person in their movement, first known as Women for Peace, later as Peace People, was Ciaran McKeown, a journalist and activist, who died earlier this year. Ciaran McKeown was a research associate affiliated with PRIO in 1977, funded by a grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Education. He published his autobiography, The Passion of Peace, in 1984.
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In Memoriam Ciaran McKeown (1943–2019)
In 1976, two women peace activists from Northern Ireland, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams were awarded ‘the People’s Peace Price’, an alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize set up and funded by Norwegian NGOs. The following year, they were awarded the real Nobel Peace Prize (for 1976) for ‘tackling so fearlessly the perilous task of leading the way into no-man’s land, in the cause of peace and reconciliation’, in the words of the presentation speech by the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s Deputy Chair.
A key person in their movement, first known as Women for Peace, later as Peace People, was Ciaran McKeown, a journalist and activist, who died earlier this year. Ciaran McKeown was a research associate affiliated with PRIO in 1977, funded by a grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Education. He published his autobiography, The Passion of Peace, in 1984.
