The International Pfeffer Peace Award or Pfeffer Peace Award is one of the three peace awards presented by the

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Fellowship of Reconciliation (United States) United States Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA) was founded in 1915 by sixty-eight pacifists, including A. J. Muste, Jane Addams and Bishop Paul Jones, and claims to be the "largest, oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in t ...

(FOR), along with the

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Award and the Nyack Area Peace Award. Since 1989, it has been awarded annually to "individuals or organizations whose commitment to peace, justice, and reconciliation is recognized as extraordinary."

Background

The International Pfeffer Peace Award was established at the end of the 1980s by Leo and Freda Pfeffer to acknowledge and honour leaders and activists who work globally for peace and justice. Leo Pfeffer (24 December 1910 – 4 June 1993) was the United States' leading theoretician on religious liberty and the separation of church and state, and he argued these constitutional issues before the Supreme Court. Along with his wife Freda Pfeffer (5 September 1911 – 3 November 2013) he founded FOR USA's International Pfeffer Peace Award in 1989, when they also began co-sponsoring FOR USA's National

Peace Award which was established to recognize persons or groups working in the United States in the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. Following Leo's death in 1993, his son Alan Pfeffer took the reins in managing his parents' endowment.

Recipients

*1989: Donald Mosley *1990:

Hildegard Goss-Mayr Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born 22 January 1930, Vienna) is an Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian. Life and commitment Daughter of Kaspar Mayr, founder of the Austrian branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, she stud ...

and Diana Francis *1991: Anita Kromberg and

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*1992: Interns for Peace *1993:

José Gómez Izquierdo José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , ...

*1994:

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entrepreneur, and civil society leader who has been serving as the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser of the Interim government of Muhammad Yunus, interim Yunus ministry, g ...

*1995:

Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between Peoples Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between Peoples (PCR) is a non-profit and non-religious organization. The PCR is based in Beit Sahour under the aegis of the International Solidarity Movement. George Rishmawi is director of PCR. The group was ...

*1996: Peace Brigades International *1997: Dorothy Granada *1998: The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó *1999: Kathy Kelly *2000:

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( Foundation For Children) *2002: Wanida Tantiwittayappitak *2005: George Houser *2006: Caribbean Project for Peace and Justice *2007:

Mel Duncan Melvin Earl Duncan (born May 22, 1950 in Davenport, Iowa) is the founding Executive Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), a civilian peacekeeping organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. He holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from ...

and the

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*2008: Ricardo Esquivia *2009: La’Onf network of

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i nonviolence communities *2010: Scott Kennedy (Resource Center For Nonviolence) *2011: Sonal Ambani *2012: Dr. Hakim (Afghan Peace Volunteers) *2013: International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers *2014: Widad Akrawi *2015:

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*2016: Mães de Maio of São Paulo, Brazil

References

{{reflist Awards established in 1989 1989 establishments in the United States Peace awards Fellowship of Reconciliation

Background

Recipients

See also

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