The Pax Christi International Peace Award is given out every year since 1988 by the Christian peace organisation

Pax Christi Pax Christi International is an international Catholic peace movement. The Pax Christi International website declares its mission is "to transform a world shaken by violence, terrorism, deepening inequalities, and global insecurity". History ...

to other peace organisations and

peace activists This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work wi ...

. The focus lies on

grassroots A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or continent movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from volunteers at the local level to imp ...

activists and organisations that are active in an ongoing conflict, working against violence and injustice. It is considered one of the most important

peace awards Peace is a state of harmony in the absence of hostility and violence, and everything that discusses achieving human welfare through justice and peaceful conditions. In a societal sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such a ...

awarded by international

non-governmental organization A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus ...

s. The award is funded by the Cardinal Bernardus Alfrink Peace Fund and the board of the organisation Pax Christi International decides the winners. The annual award recipients usually get media attention in Catholic news outlets worldwide.

Recipients

* 1988: Margarida Maria Alves (

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), Brazil * 1989:

Luis Pérez Aguirre Luis Pérez Aguirre (22 April 1941−25 January 2001) was an Uruguayan jesuit priest who highlighted for his human rights activism. Career He was the second of eight siblings of a family of the Uruguayan economic and social elite. His primary ed ...

, Uruguay * 1990:

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, Czech Republic * 1991: Osservatorio Meridionale, Italy * 1992:

Joaquim Pinto de Andrade Joaquim Pinto de Andrade (July 22, 1926 – February 23, 2008) served as the first honorary President of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Chancellor of the Luanda Archdiocese, and as a member of the African Society of Cultu ...

, Angola * 1993: Ray Williams and Dorraine Booth-Williams, USA * 1994:

José Mpundu E'Booto 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 , ...

, Democratic Republic of the Congo * 1995:

Janina Ochojska Janina Maria Ochojska (Polish pronunciation: ; born 12 March 1955) is a Polish humanitarian, social activist and astronomer, who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (2019–present). She is founder and director of the Polish Humanitar ...

, Poland * 1996:

Franjo Komarica Franjo Komarica (born 3 February 1946) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Banja Luka from 1989 to 2023. Early life One of eleven children, Komarica was born in Novakovići near Banja Luka, ...

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, Jelena Santic and Gordana Stojanovic, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia * 1997:

Domingos Soares Domingos da Silva Soares (12 May 1952 – 16 May 2025), popularly known as Padre Maubere or Amu Du, was an East Timorese Roman Catholic priest, activist, and independence leader. Born in Letefoho in what was then Portuguese Timor, he attended ...

and

Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz is an East Timorese Roman Catholic woman dedicated to the service of the poor. Biography She was born in Liquica, East Timor in 1962. After an education interrupted by the independence struggle, she joined the Can ...

, East Timor * 1998:

Laurien Ntezimana Laurien Ntezimana (born 1955) is a Rwandan Catholic theologian, sociologist and peace activist known for protecting Tutsi during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Personal life Ntezimana was born in 1955 in Butare prefecture, where he lived at the tim ...

and

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, Rwanda * 1999:

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, Northern Ireland * 2000:

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and

Laura Vargas Laura may refer to: People and fictional characters * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cno ...

(

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), UK and Peru * 2001:

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and

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, Australia * 2002: Roberto Layson, Philippines * 2003: Franjo Starcevic, Croatia * 2004:

Sérgio Vieira de Mello Sérgio Vieira de Mello (; 15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years. The Government of Brazil posthumously awarded the Sergio Vieira ...

, Brazil * 2005:

Jacques Delors Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (; 20 July 192527 December 2023) was a French politician who served as the eighth president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. Delors played a key role in the creation of the single market, the euro and th ...

, France * 2006: Ogarit Younan and

Rami George Khouri Rami George Khouri (born October 22, 1948) is a Jordanian-American journalist and editor with Palestinian background. He was born in New York City to an Arab Palestinian Christian family. His father, George Khouri, a Nazarene journalist in wha ...

, Lebanon, Palestine/Jordan * 2007: Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, Japan * 2008:

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, Brazil * 2009:

Justine Masika Bihamba Justine Masika Bihamba (born c. 1966) is a Congolese activist. As coordinator of Synergy of Women for Victims of Sexual Violence, she works to improve the lives of rural women, defend human rights and assist victims of war, especially women survivo ...

, Democratic Republic of the Congo * 2010:

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, Iraq * 2011: Pontanima, Bosnia and Herzegovina * 2012:

John Onaiyekan John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan (born 29 January 1944) is a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was archbishop of the Latin Church archdiocese of Abuja from 1994 to 2019 and was made a cardinal in 2012. He has served as president of the Chris ...

, Nigeria * 2013:

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, Russia * 2014:

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, Syria * 2015: Women, Peace and Security Collective for Reflection and Action, Colombia * 2016: Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace of Pakistan and

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, Pakistan * 2017: ZODEVITE, Mexico * 2018:

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, USA * 2019: European Lawyers in Lesvos (ELIL), Greece * 2020: Pacific Climate Warriors * 2021: Catholic Radio Network for South Sudan and Nuba Mountains, South Sudan * 2022: CONCORDIA Social Projects * 2023:

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* 2024: Haiti Justice and Peace Commission (JILAP) and Sis. Gladys Montesinos, Peru

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* {{Authority control Peace awards Christian nonviolence

Recipients

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