Gandhi Peace Award
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Not to be confused with the "Gandhi Peace Award" given out by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation
Gandhi Memorial International Foundation
Gandhi Memorial International Foundation, also known as the Mahatma Gandhi International Foundation, was a controversial non-profit organization run by Yogesh K. Gandhi, born Yogesh Kothari, who claims to be related to Mahatma Gandhi. However, an immediate descendant of Mahatma Gandhi, publicly...

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The Gandhi Peace Award is an annual award bestowed by the peace education organization Promoting Enduring Peace
Promoting Enduring Peace
Promoting Enduring Peace is a pacifist organization and United Nations non-governmental organization based in Connecticut USA. "PEP" was founded in 1952 by Dr...

 for "contributions made in the promotion of international peace and good will." It is named in honour of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...

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History

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
Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 medallion inscribed with a quotation by Gandhi, "Love Ever Suffers/Never Revenges Itself."

Recipients

  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...

     (1960)
  • Edwin T. Dahlberg
    Edwin T. Dahlberg
    Edwin T. Dahlberg was an American Baptist church leader. Rev. Dahlberg was known for his strong efforts to promote social justice and peacemaking.-Biography:...

     (1960)
  • Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath (1961)
  • John Haynes Holmes
    John Haynes Holmes
    John Haynes Holmes was a prominent Unitarian minister and pacifist, noted for his anti-war activism.-Early years:John Haynes Holmes was born in Philadelphia on November 29, 1879. He studied at Harvard, graduating in 1902, and Harvard Divinity School, which he graduated in 1904. He was then called...

     (1961)
  • Linus C. Pauling (1962)
  • James Paul Warburg
    James Warburg
    James Paul Warburg was an American banker and financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt. His father was Paul Warburg.- Biography :...

     (1962)
  • E. Stanley Jones
    E. Stanley Jones
    E. Stanley Jones was a 20th century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian.He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century...

     (1963)
  • A.J. Muste (1966)
  • Norman Thomas
    Norman Thomas
    Norman Mattoon Thomas was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.-Early years:...

     (1967)
  • Jerome Davis (1967)
  • William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1967)
  • Benjamin Spock
    Benjamin Spock
    Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand...

     (1968)
  • Wayne Morse
    Wayne Morse
    Wayne Lyman Morse was a politician and attorney from Oregon, United States, known for his proclivity for opposing his parties' leadership, and specifically for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds....

     (1970)
  • Willard Uphaus (1970)
  • U Thant
    U Thant
    U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, died in September 1961....

     (1972)
  • Dorothy Day
    Dorothy Day
    Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She was also considered to be an anarchist, and did not hesitate to use the term...

     (1975)
  • Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War,...

     (1976)
  • Peter Benenson
    Peter Benenson
    Peter Benenson was an English lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International . In 2001, Benenson received the Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement.-Biography:...

     and Martin Ennals
    Martin Ennals
    Martin Ennals was a British human rights activist.Ennals served as the Secretary-General of Amnesty International, between 1968 and 1980....

     (1978)
  • Roland Bainton
    Roland Bainton
    Roland Herbert Bainton was a British born American Protestant church historian.-Life:He was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England and came to the United States in 1902. He received an A.B. degree from Whitman College, and B.D. and Ph.D.. degrees from Yale University. He also received a number of...

     (1979)
  • Helen Caldicott
    Helen Caldicott
    Helen Mary Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general. She hosts a...

     (1980)
  • Corliss Lamont
    Corliss Lamont
    Corliss Lamont , was a socialist philosopher, and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. As a part of his political activities he was the Chairman of National Council of American-Soviet Friendship starting from early 1940s...

     (1981)
  • Randall Watson Forsberg (1982)
  • Robert Jay Lifton
    Robert Jay Lifton
    Robert Jay Lifton is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform...

     (1984)
  • Kay Camp (1984)
  • Bernard Lown
    Bernard Lown
    Bernard Lown, M.D. is the original developer of the defibrillator and is an internationally known peace activist. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, an organization he helped to create, was awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for its work against nuclear proliferation...

     (1986)
  • John Somerville (1987)
  • César Chávez
    César Chávez
    César Estrada Chávez was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers ....

     (1989)
  • Marian Wright Edelman
    Marian Wright Edelman
    Marian Wright Edelman is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.-Early years:...

     (1990)
  • George McGovern
    George McGovern
    George Stanley McGovern is an historian, author, and former U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 presidential election....

     (1991)
  • Ramsey Clark
    Ramsey Clark
    William Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson...

     (1992)
  • Lucius Walker, Jr. (1993)
  • Roy Bourgeois
    Roy Bourgeois
    Roy Bourgeois is an American activist. He was ordained a priest in the Maryknoll order of the Roman Catholic Church and is founder of the human rights group SOA Watch or the School of the Americas Watch....

     (1994)
  • Edith Ballantyne (1995)
  • The New Haven/León Sister City Project (1996)
  • Howard and Alice Frazier (1997)
  • Michael True (2002)
  • Dennis Kucinich
    Dennis Kucinich
    Dennis John Kucinich is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He was furthermore a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections....

     (2003)
  • Karen Jacob and David Cortright
    David Cortright
    David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum....

     (2004)
  • Ehud Bandel and Arik Ascherman
    Arik Ascherman
    Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman is the Director of Special Projects for Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel, an organization where he previously served as Executive Director...

    (2011)


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