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Adrienne van Melle-Hermans, the Glossary

Adrienne Cécile Marie Hermans better known as Adrienne van Melle-Hermans (25 April 1931 – 23 August 2007) was a Dutch peace activist.^[1]

18 relations: Amersfoort, Arnhem, Battle of Arnhem, Cold War, Leiden University, List of peace activists, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear weapon, Peace movement, PeaceWomen Across the Globe, Scouting Nederland, The Hague, Women's rights, World Conference on Women, 1980, World Conference on Women, 1985, World Conference on Women, 1995, Zwollerkerspel.
Dutch anti–nuclear weapons activists
Dutch pacifists
Dutch women activists

Amersfoort

Amersfoort is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Arnhem

Arnhem (or; Arnheim; Ernems: Èrnem) is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border.

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Battle of Arnhem

The Battle of Arnhem was fought during the Second World War,as part of the Allied Operation Market Garden.

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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Leiden University

Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands.

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List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.

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NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation.

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PeaceWomen Across the Globe

PeaceWomen Across the Globe (PWAG), previously known as 1000 PeaceWomen, is an organization based in Bern, Switzerland that aims to increase the visibility of women promoting peace all over the world.

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Scouting Nederland

Scouting Nederland is the national Scout organisation of the Netherlands with approximately 110,000 members (53,324 male and 54,663 female, 87,000 youth members, as of 2010. The official patron of Scouting Nederland is Queen Máxima, the wife of the Dutch King, Willem-Alexander. From 2005 Scouting Nederland has been affiliated with the International Scout and Guide Fellowship.

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The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.

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Women's rights

Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.

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World Conference on Women, 1980

The World Conference on Women, 1980, or the Second World Conference on Women, took place between July 14 and July 30, 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the mid-decade assessment of progress and failure in implementing the goals established by the World Plan of Action at the 1975 inaugural conference on women.

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World Conference on Women, 1985

The World Conference on Women, 1985 or the Third World Conference on Women took place between 15 and 26 July 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, as the end-of-decade assessment of progress and failure in implementing the goals established by the World Plan of Action from the 1975 inaugural conference on women as modified by the World Programme of Action of the second conference.

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World Conference on Women, 1995

The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China.

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Zwollerkerspel

Zwollerkerspel (Low Saxon: Zwollerkärspel) is a former municipality in the province of Overijssel, Netherlands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_van_Melle-Hermans

Also known as Adrienne Cécile Marie Hermans, Adrienne Hermans.