Timmon Wallis is an American author, peace activist, and advocate of nuclear disarmament. [1] As of 2024, he is the executive director of Nuclearban.us and the coordinator of the American Warheads to Windmills coalition. [2]
Wallis has as BA in Human Ecology and a PhD in Peace Studies. [3] [2]
Wallis has worked with UK organizations Peace Brigades International, Peaceworkers UK, Nonviolent Peaceforce (as executive director), [4] and Peace & Disarmament for Quaker Peace & Social Witness. [5] He spent 7 years camped outside of a nuclear base in England. [1]
Wallis has been an advocate for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which in 2017 outlawed the use of nuclear weapons internationally. [6]
Wallis has directed peacebuilding projects in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Georgia, Myanmar, Chechnya, Croatia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and South Sudan. [6]
His publications include Disarming the Nuclear Argument;The Truth About Trident: Disarming the Nuclear Argument; and Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War. [2] [7] He often coincides his books with training workshops in collaboration with organizations like Christian CND, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Pax Christi. [8]
Wallis partnered with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and published his book (likely Warheads to Windmills) shortly before the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize. [5]
In 2024, New England Public Media stated that Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson are both authors, activists, and "nobel prize winners for their work on nuclear [dis]armament who fell in love with each other through the cause". [9]
