Annelise Ebbe

Ebbe joined the Danish Campaign against Nuclear Weapons when she was 15.^[1] Her family had been active in the Danish resistance movement against the German occupation during World War II.^[2] She was also active in the campaign against the Vietnam War and in the women's rights Red Stocking Movement in the 1970s.^[3]

Ebbe studied a master's degree in French language, Nordic languages and Nordic literature at Aarhus University.^[4] She translated into the Norwegian, Swedish, English, German and French languages.^[4]

Ebbe was founder of the Danish Women in Black (Spanish: Mujeres de Negro) network.^[5] She was president of the Danish Peace Council.^[2]

In 1994, Ebbe joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and later became international vice president of the organisation and president of Danish WILPF branch.^[2][3][6] In 1996, she visited the former Yugoslavia.^[2] In 2006, Ebbe gave the keynote address at the International Seminar on "Women's Unfinished Agenda."^[7] She also spoke at international events on the need for feminist analysis in peacebuilding^[8] and was part of a three-member team from the WILPF who visited Kandhamal, Orissa, India, in 2009 to look into the condition of women in relief camps from a humanitarian angle.^[9]

In 2003, Ebbe spoke against the Iraq War at a protest organised by the anti-war umbrella organisation Ingen krig mod Irak.^[10] She also spoke against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)'s claims that the organisation was improving the lives of women in Afghanistan.^[11]

Ebbe died in 2020, aged 70.^[3]

In 2005, Ebbe was named a Nobel Peace Prize 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe (PWAG).^[2][3]

In 2013, Ebbe was awarded the Drassow's Scholarship, otherwise known as the Writers' Association's Peace Prize.^[4]