1997+Jody+Williams

media type="file" key="Jody Williams project.wmv" width="300" height="300" INTRODUCTION "The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal… once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims ." Jody Williams worked hard and is still working hard to ban landmines. Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams was born in Vermont on October 9,1950. It often fell on her to defend her deaf and schizophrenic older brother from bullies as a child. Jody Williams went to study international re;asions and received her dgree at the University of Vermont. She also went to John Hopkins School in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1991 the ICBL appointed Jody to be a head coordinator of the campain to ban landmines. In 1999 the treaty was put into affect. And now in the present day Jody Williams is still trying to make the world a better place.