Diana Francis (born 1944 in
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
)
[ is a British ]peace activist
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, Quaker
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,[ and author.
She is a graduate of the ]University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Bath, earned in 1998 with the thesis ''Respect in cross-cultural conflict resolution training''.International Fellowship of Reconciliation
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and Chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support,[
]
Books
Francis is the author of:
*''People, Peace and Power: Conflict transformation in action'', London, Pluto Press, 2002 (paperback) (hardback)
*''Rethinking War and Peace'', London and Ann Arbor, MI, Pluto Press, Pluto Press, 2004 (paperback) (hardback)
*''From Pacification to Peacebuilding: A Call to Global Transformation'' London and Ann Arbor, MI, Pluto Press (20 Mar 2010) (hardback).[Reviews of ''From Pacification to Peacebuilding'':
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*''Faith, Power and Peace: The 2015 Swarthmore Lecture'', Quaker Books, 2015.
See also
* List of peace activists
This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work ...
References
External links
Home pageThe 2015 Swarthmore Lecture
on YouTube
1944 births
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of the University of Bath
British Quakers
Living people
Nonviolence advocates
Peace and conflict scholars
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