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Scilla is an Ambassador for Peace Direct, a Councillor of the World Future Council and patron of Oxford Research Group; adviser to the Syria Campaign and the.!

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Dr Scilla Elworthy was thirteen years old when she saw the Soviet Invasion of Hungary on the television and understood the horror of what was happening.

Scilla is an Ambassador for Peace Direct, a Councillor of the World Future Council and patron of Oxford Research Group; adviser to the Syria Campaign and the.

Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Scilla Elworthy has spent decades working in peace-making.

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Scilla Elworthy

British anti-war activist (born 1943)

Priscilla "Scilla" Elworthy (born 3 June 1943) is a peace builder, and the founder of the Oxford Research Group, a non-governmental organisation she set up in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, for which she was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

She served as its executive director from 1982 until 2003, when she left that role to set up Peace Direct, a charity supporting local peace-builders in conflict areas. In 2003 she was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize.^[1] From 2005 she was adviser to Peter Gabriel, Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson in setting up The Elders.^[2] She is a member of the World Future Council^[3] and in 2012 co-founded Rising Women Rising World, a community of women on all continents who take responsibility for building a world that works for all.

In 2017 she wrote The Business Plan for Peace: Bui