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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watch presentation:
watch acceptance address:
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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
Harris.
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watch presentation and address:
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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watch presentation and address:
vea la presentación
y la conferencia:
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Father Virgilio Elizondo
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Parent of US Hispanic theology affirming
inclusion of all.
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watch presentation and acceptance speech:
vea la presentación
y la el discurso de aceptación:
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listen to address:
escuche
la conferencia:
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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. |
watch presentation:
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acceptance speech:
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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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address:
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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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| watch presentation:
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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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