Timmon Wallis
Timmon Wallis is an American author, peace activist, and advocate of nuclear disarmament. As of 2024, he is the executive director of Nuclearban.us and the coordinator of the American Warheads to Windmills coalition.
Biography
Education
Wallis has as BA in Human Ecology and a PhD in Peace Studies.Career
Wallis has worked with UK organizations Peace Brigades International, Peaceworkers UK, Nonviolent Peaceforce, and Peace & Disarmament for Quaker Peace & Social Witness. He spent 7 years camped outside of a nuclear base in England.Wallis has been an advocate for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which in 2017 outlawed the use of nuclear weapons internationally.
Wallis has directed peacebuilding projects in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Georgia, Myanmar, Chechnya, Croatia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and South Sudan.
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.'' He often coincides his books with training workshops in collaboration with organizations like Christian CND, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Pax Christi.
Wallis partnered with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and published his book shortly before the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize.