Alyn
Ware is a peace educator and a consultant for peace and disarmament. He is currently
Director of the Peace Foundation Wellington Office (Aotearoa-New Zealand), Global
Coordinator of the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament, Director of
Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace and a Consultant at Large for the Lawyers' Committee
on Nuclear Policy (USA) and the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear
Arms. Alyn was the UN Coordinator for the World Court Project, which led the effort
to achieve a ruling from the International Court of Justice on the legality of
the threat or use of nuclear weapons. He was also one of the coordinators for
the drafting of a model treaty on the abolition of nuclear weapons (Nuclear Weapons
Convention) which has been circulated by the United Nations. Alyn is a Member
of the New Zealand Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control and
has been on government delegations to the 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Conference and the UNESCO Ministers of Education Conference in Geneva 2001 at
which he was Head of Delegation. Alyn is on the international boards of a number
of organizations including the International Peace Bureau, Global Campaign for
Peace Education, Abolition 2000 and the Middle Powers Initiative. Alyn founded
the Mobile Peace Van peace education initiative and is co-founder of the Cool
Schools Peer Mediation Programme introduced into approximately half of New Zealand
schools. In 1986 he was awarded the UN International Year of Peace (New Zealand)
prize in honour of his peace education work. Alyn is co-author of a number of
books including: Parliamentarians and Nuclear Weapons, Security and Survival:
The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention and Our Planet in Every Classroom.
