PEACE WORK

Mary Ann ‘Max’ Cullinan

Mary Ann ‘Max’ Cullinan worked as an organiser in the emerging democratic trade union movement in the early eighties. In the following decade of mass mobilisation against apartheid, she worked as a human rights activist in various grass roots organisations resisting forced removals from the land, opposing restrictions on freedom of speech, and in the monitoring […]

Ilze Olckers

Ilze Olckers practiced as a human rights lawyer in South Africa during the apartheid era and during the transition to democracy. During this time she also participated in the constitution and other legislative drafting processes, the National Women’s Coalition, the TRC as well as in policy and systems development of gender and race machinery in […]

Isarewe Huni Kuin

Isarewe Huni Kuin is a Spiritual Leader, Pajé from the Reino da Estrela Village, located in the Upper Jordão River deep in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest of Acre State Brazil. He began his spiritual studies at a young age with his father Arthur Sales Txuã, who was an important Pajé of the Huni Kuin people […]

Txana Ikakuru Huni Kuin

Txana Ikakuru Huni Kuin lives in his native Huni Kuin village in the Jordão, Acre State Amazon Rainforest Brazil. He is the grandson of Romão Sales (who was one of the main guardians of the sacred and ancient Huni Kuin chants of Nixi Pae) and grandson of the 105 year old Master Kaxinawa Shaman Mukaya […]