William Peters (diplomat)

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William Peters

LVO MBE (28 September 1923 – 23 March 2014), also known as Bill Peters, was a British diplomat who co-founded the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt
campaign.

Peters was born at Morpeth, Northumberland. The highlight of his career after retirement was his co-founding, with Martin Dent of Keele University, of the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign, which went on to become the Make Poverty History movement.

He studied

British Ambassador to Uruguay. He went on to work as High Commissioner in Malawi
before retiring from the Foreign Office in 1983.

A few years after retirement Peters met Martin Dent of Keele University and realised that Martin shared his concern at what they considered to be unsustainable levels of third world debt. They co-founded a campaign to write off

third-world debt in time for the Millennium. They called this Jubilee 2000 in reference to the Old Testament Jubilee requirement to cancel debts every seven years.[2] It was supported by the Anglican Church, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, addressing a rally in Trafalgar Square with Bill and Martin and making Jubilee 2000 the subject of his New Year's Day Millennium address on BBC 1.[3][4]

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer,

G8 summit
from 1998 in Birmingham to Cologne and Genoa with a few people even travelling to Okinawa in Japan.

Peters received the

Gandhi International Peace Award from the Gandhi Foundation in recognition of his efforts and of the success of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which 'made possible the provision of basic education and health-care to thousands of people.'[8][1]

He died on 23 March 2014.[9][10][11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Balliol College Annual Record 2002". Balliol College. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  2. ^ Wroe, Martin (May–June 2000). "An Irresistible Force". Sojourners Magazine. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Episcopal News Service Archives". Archive.episcopalchurch.org. 7 January 1998. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  4. ^ Conway, Edmund. "Why a debt jubilee is not the answer to Britain's prayers". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  5. ^ Grice, Andrew (18 December 1999). "Brown will cancel Third World debt - News". The Independent. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  6. ^ "sdr dec montage". Icsw.org. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Bono Takes World-record-breaking Debt Petition to Millennium Summit". NY Rock. 6 September 2000. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  8. ^ "William (Bill) Peters, co founder of Jubilee 2000 and joint recipient of the Gandhi Foundation Peace Award in 2000". The Gandhi Foundation. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  9. ^ "Tributes paid to dedicated campaigner Bill Peters - The Journal". www.thejournal.co.uk.
  10. ^ "William Peters, co-founder of Jubilee 2000, dies | IofC UK". uk.iofc.org.
  11. ^ "10 Apr 2014: In Memory of Bill Peters - Tibet Foundation". www.tibet-foundation.org. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014.
  12. ^ "Tribute to debt relief champion - Morpeth Herald". www.morpethherald.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 April 2014.
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