Jody Williams

American teacher and aid worker

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Born 1950 · age 76United States

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    Born 1950
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Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

She turned a solo cause into a global treaty in six years flat, rallying governments to ban anti-personnel landmines and collecting a Nobel Peace Prize before age fifty for rewriting the rules of war.

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Jody Williams was born October 9, 1950, an American who would spend decades in political activism with a sharp focus on human rights, particularly women's rights, and security redefined for a changing world. Her signature campaign targeted anti-personnel landmines, weapons that maim long after conflicts end. The drive succeeded: in 1997 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work toward banning and clearing the mines. The recognition arrived not for theory but for measurable shift—a treaty, a movement, ground cleared.

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