Annalena Tonelli
WHO WE ARE
The Peace Center is a place of meeting, discovery and socialization of experiences. An intercultural planning laboratory for the development of active citizenship.
Its operators and volunteers are committed to the spread of peace, nonviolence, solidarity, and HR-defence.
The idea of the Perugia-Assisi March for Peace was introduced in 1961, thanks to the Nonviolent Movement (Movimento Nonviolento) founded by Aldo Capitini, as demonstration of people, associations, local authorities’ engagement to building a world without violence and war and to the promotion of nonviolence. Moreover, thanks to the commitment of the assessor Katia Zattoni of the Municipality of Forlì and the Peace Center of Forlì, together with other associations in the area, the Romagna March for Peace, a local initiative, has been taking place since 2012.
Annalena Tonelli
(Forlì, April 1943 – Borama, 5 October 2003)
was an Italian Catholic missionary, prized the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award for her aid to refugees by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the 25th of June, 2003.
She has spent about thirty-three years of her life as a volunteer in Africa before being killed by an Islamic commando in the assistance facility she ran in Somalia on the 25th of October, 2003.
In 1976, Annalena Tonelli became responsible for a pilot project commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the treatment of tuberculosis in nomadic populations.