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Oleg V. Bodrov
Physicist, ecologist, and a peace/environmental activist from Russia
- Chair, Public Council of the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Finland, an interregional environmental movement in Leningrad Oblast and St. Petersburg.
- Board Member of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) and coordinates the Baltic Civil Peace Initiative, a network of civil activists, scientists, and ecologists working to preserve peace and the environment in the Baltic Sea region.
- Worked in scientific institutes of the Soviet nuclear industry. Following the Chernobyl disaster, he left the atomic sector and dedicated himself entirely to the international environmental and peace movements.
- Co-founded the environmental group “Green World” (1988) and the Public Council of the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Finland (2015).
- Former board member of the international “Clean Baltic” Coalition (1998–2003).
- Delivered presentations at international conferences in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima (Japan), Barcelona, Vienna, Paris, Boston, New York, the Parliament of Finland, the European Parliament (Brussels), as well as at the IAEA (Vienna) and the United Nations (New York).
- Documentary filmmaker – screenwriter, director, and producer of nearly 20 films on environmental and nuclear safety issues and has received numerous awards at international festivals.
- Awards include the Åland Islands Baltic Sea Prize “For efforts to protect the Baltic Sea” (2000), the Nuclear Free Future Education Award (New York, 2010), the “Nuclear Responsibility” award from a US coalition of 30 NGOs (Washington, D.C., 2012), “Green Person of the Year in Russia” (2004), and Russian national medals “For Protection of Nature” (2015 and 2016).
Agneta Norberg
Co-creator of Women for Peace, Sweden in 1980. The Nordic Women for Peace organization took the initiative to march for Peace from Copenhagen to Paris in 1981, marched from Sweden to Moscow in 1982 and marched from New York to Washington in 1983 demanding peace and dismantling nuclear arsenals.
Norberg has been a member of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space in 20 years. Currently she is an advisor to the Global Network.
Norberg has received numerous peace awards including:
- Peace in Space Award, 2011, in the U.S. (By Global Network)
- Helena Bering´s diploma and stipendium for her work against nuclear weapons. 2012. (Sweden)
- People’s Peace Prize from the peace movement in Orust, Sweden, 2018.
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