Community of Christ
International
Peace Award
Honor Roll
2009 - Dr. Halima Bashir |
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Advocate for the health and safety of the
women and children of the Darfur. |
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2008 - Koinonia community |
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Exemplary peacemaking signal community.
Award presented to Koinonia executive
director Bren Dubay and chaplain Norris
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Bren Dubay
Norris Harris
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2007 - Dolores Huerta and Father Virgilio Elizondo |
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Dolores Huerta |
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Non-violent advocate of farm
workers' rights. |
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Parent of US Hispanic theology affirming inclusion of all. | ||
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2006 - Howard Zehr |
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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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2005 - Craig Kielburger |
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Founder of ‘Free the Children’, headquartered in Toronto, Canada; youngest ever recipient at age of 22. | ||
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2004 - Rev. James Lawson |
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Civil Rights and on-going activist. Organized the campaign to
desegregate Nashville, Tennessee though lunch counter
sit-ins. |
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2003 - Dr. Jean Vanier |
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Founder of
L'Arche,
an international movement that creates
communities for adults with developmental
disabilities. |
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2002 - Ms. Ela Gandhi |
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Vigorous non-violent
opponent of apartheid in South Africa and under
house arrest for 9 years. |
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2001 - Dr. Swanee Hunt |
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Work with women and children in Bosnia, founder of Women Waging Peace. Former US Ambassador to Austria. | ||
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2000 - Dr. John Paul Lederach |
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International
mediator and founding director of the Conflict
Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite
University, USA |
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1999 - Dr. Jane Goodall |
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Primate researcher and environmentalist and international environmental education work with children. | ||
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1998 - Dr. Marie Fortune |
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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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1997 - Senator Juan M. Flavier |
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Senator, medical doctor and development worker among the poor and the former secretary of Department of Health in the Philippines. | ||
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1995 - Marian Wright Edelman |
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National advocate for disadvantaged Americans, especially children; founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund. | ||
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1994 - Dr. M. Scott Peck and Lily Ho Peck |
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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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1993 - Dr. Jehan Sadat |
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Social reformer, advocate of emancipation projects for women in Egypt. | ||
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