Nancy Jean Shelley (1926–2010)
OAM was a
Quaker
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peace activist who represented the
Australian peace movement at the United Nations in 1982. She was a prominent speaker at many Australian and international conferences in the 1980s and 1990s. Shelley received a Medal of the
Order of Australia
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(OAM) in 1989 for her work.
[Geoffrey Stokes et al (2008). ''Global Citizens'', Cambridge University Press, p. 80.] She died on 28 September 2010.
See also
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List of peace activists
This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated Diplomacy, diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usua ...
References
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2010 deaths
1926 births
Australian Quakers
Australian pacifists
Australian Christian pacifists
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Australian anti–nuclear weapons activists