A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights.

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations whose stated objective is a world free of anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, where mine and cluster munitions survivors see their rights respected and can lead fulfilling lives.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization that provides assistance and protection to victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence.

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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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.

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the six prestigious awards established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist Alfred Nobel.

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine Ban Treaty, aims at eliminating anti-personnel landmines (APLs) around the world.