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Revision as of 22:16, 25 November 2009
- For the award given by the government of India, please see Gandhi Peace Prize.
- Not to be confused with the "Gandhi Peace Award" given out by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation.
The Gandhi Peace Award is an annual award bestowed by the Religious Society of Friends-affiliated organization Promoting Enduring Peace for "contributions made in the promotion of international peace and good will." It is named in honour of Mahatma Gandhi.
The award was first proposed by Jerome Davis, on March 13, 1959. It has been issued since 1960 and consists of a certificate, a ceremony, and the presentation of a bronze medallion inscribed with a quotation by Gandhi, "Love Ever Suffers/Never Revenges Itself."
Recipients
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1960)
- Edwin T. Dahlberg (1960)
- Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath (1961)
- John Haynes Holmes (1961)
- Linus C. Pauling (1962)
- James Paul Warburg (1962)
- E. Stanley Jones (1963)
- A.J. Muste (1966)
- Norman Thomas (1967)
- Jerome Davis (1967)
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1967)
- Benjamin Spock (1968)
- Wayne Morse (1970)
- Willard Uphaus (1970)
- U Thant (1972)
- Dorothy Day (1975)
- Daniel Ellsberg (1976)
- Peter Benenson and Martin Ennals (1978)
- Roland Bainton (1979)
- Helen Caldicott (1980)
- Corliss Lamont (1981)
- Randall Watson Forsberg (1982)
- Robert Jay Lifton (1984)
- Kay Camp (1984)
- Bernard Lown (1986)
- John Somerville (1987)
- César Chávez (1989)
- Marian Wright Edelman (1990)
- George McGovern (1991)
- Ramsey Clark (1992)
- Lucius Walker, Jr. (1993)
- Roy Bourgeois (1994)
- Edith Ballantyne (1995)
- The New Haven/León Sister City Project (1996)
- Howard and Alice Frazier (1997)
- Michael True (2002)
- Dennis Kucinich (2003)
- Karen Jacob and David Cortright (2004)
- Leslie Cagan (2006)
- Aung San Suu Kyi (2009)
- Sources
- "Gandhi Peace Award Recipients 1960-2004". Promoting Enduring Peace. n.d. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
External links
- Gandhi Peace Award (official website)