Community of Christ
International Peace Award
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Interview with Dr. Akiba

Nuclear Disarmament Advocate...Accepts...Award

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Visionary author, naturalist, and activist

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Co-founder and executive director of the Central Asia Institute; school-builder and author of the books Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools

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Advocate for the health and safety of the women and children of Darfur

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interview: Dr. Halima Bashir 

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Exemplary peacemaking signal community; award accepted by Koinonia executive director Bren Dubay and chaplain Norris Harris

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Bren Dubay

Norris Harris

Interview: Bren Dubay and Norris Harris 

interview: young adult Sarah Prendergast

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Dolores Huerta
Non-violent advocate for farm workers' rights

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Father Virgilio Elizondo
Parent of US Hispanic theology affirming inclusion of all

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Pioneer in restorative justice and co-director for the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA

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Founder of Free the Children, headquartered in Toronto, Canada; youngest ever recipient at age 22

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Civil Rights and on-going activist; organized the campaign to desegregate Nashville, Tennessee through lunch counter sit-ins

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Founder of L'Arche, an international movement that creates communities for adults with developmental disabilities

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Vigorous non-violent opponent of apartheid in South Africa who was under house arrest for nine years

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Works with women and children in Bosnia; founder of Women Waging Peace. Former US Ambassador to Austria

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International mediator and founding director of the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University, USA

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Primate researcher and environmentalist; international environmental education work with children

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Minister, founder, and director of the Seattle, Washington, Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence

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Senator, medical doctor and development worker among the poor; the former secretary of Department of Health in the Philippines

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National advocate for disadvantaged Americans, especially children; founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund

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Founders of the Foundation for Community Encouragement; M. Scott Peck is the author of The Road Less Traveled and other titles

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Social reformer; advocate of emancipation projects for women in Egypt

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