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Nobel Peace Prize winner to speak to BUHS community

Nobel Peace Prize winner to speak to BUHS community

Activist Jody Williams, honored for her work in bringing a treaty to ban land mines onto the world stage, will discuss how to create positive change — ‘personally, socially and globally’

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Brattleboro Union High School graduate Jody Williams, an international political activist most known for her work to ban and clear land mines, will speak to the school community on Tuesday, May 17.

Williams helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1991. The ICBL had 1,000 international member organizations from 100 countries working on the issue. In 1997, the Ottawa Treaty, signed by 133 nations, banned land mines around the world.

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