Liska Blodgett

FOUNDER

Liska Blodgett is a visionary real estate developer and the founder of Peace Museums in Vienna, Nepal, Paris, and Colorado. With an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) and fluency in six languages, she has lived and studied across France, Spain, Germany, the USA, Israel, and Japan. Her global experiences have deepened her belief in a shared human culture of peace, inspiring her to challenge the pervasive influence of the Military-Industrial Complex and its focus on war and defense spending. Liska begins her initiatives with a powerful question: “What can you do for peace?” She is committed to translating this question into actionable plans that foster understanding and collaboration worldwide. Through her work, Liska underscores the urgency of building a more peaceful and connected world.

 

JANICKA BASSIS

PEACE MUSEUM PARIS

Janicka Bassis has been a trailblazer in France’s real estate capital markets, becoming one of the first women in the C-Suite of the commercial real estate sector in 1987. Over her career, she has advised on over €5 billion in institutional-quality transactions across international markets. Recognizing the lack of networks for women in the industry, Janicka founded WWIRE.eu (World Women Impacting Real Estate) in 2012. Today, it is the largest global platform dedicated to promoting women leaders in real estate, connecting over 25,000 women across 25 countries, and fostering inspiring female role models. Beyond her professional achievements, Janicka’s passion lies in her peace journey. As a founding contributor to the Peace Museum Vienna and now actively focused on Peace Museum Paris, she uses her remarkable ability to connect people to create impactful collaborations. Janicka is committed to empowering women, amplifying underrepresented voices, and championing initiatives that promote peace and equality worldwide.

 

Chhaya Saint Ramon

PEACE MUSEUM PARIS

Chhaya Mathur Saint Ramon is an Indo-French peace advocate, actively engaged in international peace conferences and dedicated to promoting peace heroes and heroines. As a co-founder of the Peace Museum Paris and a mother of two bicultural children, she strives to create a world where every child can grow in peace, with access to food, shelter, education, and dignity. Born in India during a period of political upheaval, Chhaya’s experiences in Jordan and her work with the UN’s World Food Program have given her a profound understanding of global conflicts and inequalities. She believes in fostering inclusivity and peace to ensure a brighter, more harmonious future for generations to come.

 
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Peter van den dungen

PEACE BUILDER, EDUCATOR

Peter van den Dungen is a prominent figure in the field of peace studies and the development of peace museums. He is originally from the Netherlands and has a long academic and professional background in peace history. He taught Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK, where he played a significant role in establishing the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP), an organization that connects and supports peace museums worldwide.

 
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Navin Jungali

He is a Nepalese Artist/Painter/Sculptor and peace activist, Founder/President of Peace Museum Nepal and director of ENMP. Born in 1978 in Ilam, eastern part of Nepal. From 2009 to 2015 he worked in Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction, Government of Nepal. He is member of Peace Museum Vienna and Peace Museum Colorado.

 

 


 
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Hannah Elizabeth Monroe White

Hannah is a graduate of languages from the University of Manchester, UK. She is an alumni of the United World College of Hong Kong, where she learned conflict resolution theory to promote peaceful dialogue at Initiative For Peace, and lived with students from all around the globe. She is passionate about human rights, volunteering and world affairs, and believes in using our talents for the advancement of peacemaking. She is motivated to work on the team to promote peace education and our mission at Peace Hero Museums worldwide, to make peace work more accessible and engaging through research and innovative content.

“Peace is something which stretches far beyond the absence of violence and the development of government policies. For me, peace is something that everyone can influence, every day. It starts at the individual level. From there, it ripples into communities, cultures, and societies, creating a blueprint for real change and authentic harmony. Language learning opens your world, your perspectives, all whilst offering the possibility for empathy, connection, and insight. For this reason, I believe If everyone could just learn one new language, we would see more tolerance, acceptance, intercultural understanding, and ultimately, more peace. Languages give you gateways into cultivating peace that would simply be impenetrable in a monolingual capacity.”  

 

Arjun Chalise

Secretary General of Peace Museum Nepal

A professional having over 15-year experience as Intuitional Development Expert dealing in the areas of policy, planning, programming, monitoring and evaluation especially in social sector - on the issues of peace, education, health, child & woman rights, gender, poverty, MDGs and development governance; having over eight years experience in Government Service (GoN, Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction) together with Emergency Peace Support Project (Word Bank), Nepal Peace Trust Fund (EU, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, DFID, World Bank etc.), Post Conflict Peace and Reconstruction Project, Secretariat of the Special Committee for Supervision, Integration and Rehabilitation of the Maoist Army Combatants. Arjun believes in need/demand based interventions with the participation and ownership of targeted communities in cost-effective as well as result based approaches.

 
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Kirin Taylor

peace maker

Kirin Taylor is pursuing a combined BA/MA degree in Government and Politics, with minors in Social Justice Theory, Sociology, and International Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Kirin trained as a peace educator with the Maryland, USA-based nonprofit Little Friends for Peace since age 11, moving into a leadership role at a young age, and an administrative position coordinating summer peace camps, and both delivering and developing programming, at age 19. Now she serves as a peace ambassador for LFFP, spreading their mission, while engaging in other work in NYC; currently she is working on research and interning at the Congregation of the Mission at the United Nations. She has also spent time working for the Homes for the Homeless Youth program and as a caseworker to aid vulnerable populations in receiving legal documents at St. John’s Bread and Life. She spent a year in Austria learning German and spent the fall of 2016 in Rome, each helping her to develop her working theory of cultural exchange being a path to peace. Her support for Peace Museum Vienna includes consulting.

 

Robert blodgett

PAINTER, PHILOSOPHER, PEACE MAKER

Robert is a dedicated advocate for human rights and peace, currently completing his Master’s in Philosophy at the University of Vienna. As a co-founder of the Peace Museum Vienna, he has worked to promote a deeper understanding of peace through education and advocacy. His philosophy centers on the belief that human rights - particularly the right to a satisfactory quality of life are fundamental to lasting peace. He aligns with Thomas Pogge’s assertion that poverty is akin to slavery: it must be completely eradicated, not merely reduced. Robert believes that true peace cannot be achieved through half-measures but requires the total elimination of poverty and the active promotion of human rights. Through his work, he strives to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live with dignity, security, and well-being.