{"id":7362,"date":"2020-03-25T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcia.org.uk\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2020-11-26T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T11:50:35","slug":"tribute-to-lifelong-peacemaker-ifanwy-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cymru.global\/cy\/cymru-global-news\/tribute-to-lifelong-peacemaker-ifanwy-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Lifelong Peacemaker Ifanwy Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

<– Hafan Heddwchwyr\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

It is with great sadness that the WCIA team learnt of the passing of lifelong peacemaker Ifanwy Williams, 98, from Porthmadog in Gwynedd on 20th March.<\/p>\n

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Ifanwy Williams, Porthmadog – Portrait by Lee Karen Stow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ifanwy may be familiar to Welsh internationalists beyond Snowdonia as the ‘face’ of the “Women War & Peace” Exhibition<\/a> by WCIA, with international photojournalist Lee Karen Stow<\/a>, which toured Wales over 2017-20<\/a> – and remains on permanent display in Wales’ Temple of Peace<\/a> and Health in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

Ifanwy shared her perspective as a lifelong peace campaigner in a moving interview with Lee, reproduced for International Women’s Day 2018 in her blog post <\/span>‘Remember Me: the Changing Face of Memorialisation’<\/a>, in which she shared Ifanwy’s story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“At age 96, Ifanwy Williams (pictured here) has been a member of the peace movement in Wales for seven decades. <\/em><\/p>\n

Born in Liverpool, Ifanwy was evacuated during the Second World War to Denbigh in Wales. She studied social work and on her gap year went to live in Dinmael, a village occupied by many radicals and non-conformists. <\/em><\/p>\n

Influenced by those around her, and particularly her older brother Glyn, a conscientious objector and pacifist, she also became a conscientious objector.<\/em><\/p>\n

For ten years Ifanwy has chaired the Glaslyn and Dwyryd Branch of Cymdeithas y Cymod (Fellowship of Reconciliation in Wales). It was Ifanwy who coined the phrase Adar Angau (death birds\/death drones) when the Fellowship began a campaign to raise awareness of plans to test and develop unmanned drone aircraft at the Llanbedr airfield in Snowdonia. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI aim to be a Christian. I am a pacifist. I don\u2019t believe in killing. There are other ways of meeting difficult situations.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ifanwy was instrumental in setting up Heddwch Nain Mamgu<\/a>, a community-led group inspired by the 1923-4 Welsh Women’s Peace Petition to America<\/a> (which was signed by 390,296 women in households Wales-wide, in through a remarkable door-to-door campaign by the Welsh League of Nations Union<\/a>) – who aim to mobilise a new generation of women peacemakers in the leadup to the centenary of this incredible movement.<\/p>\n