The World Methodist Peace Award is a peace award. It was established by Dr.

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at the 13th

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held in 1976 and is awarded by the

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. It is awarded for significant contributions to peace, reconciliation and justice on the basis of courage, creativity and consistency.

Recipients

1970s

* 1977: Saidie Patterson, Northern Ireland * 1978:

Anwar Sadat Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until Assassination of Anwar Sadat, his assassination by fundame ...

, Egypt

1980s

* 1980: Abel Hendricks, South Africa * 1981: Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Great Britain * 1982: Kenneth Mew, Zimbabwe * 1984: Tai-Young Lee, Korea * 1985:

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, USA * 1986: Sir

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and Lady Winifred Walker, Australia * 1987: Bert Bissell, UK * 1987: Woodrow Bradley Seals, USA * 1988: Gordon Wilson, Northern Ireland

1990s

* 1990:

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, USSR * 1991:

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, Germany * 1992: Zdravko Beslov, Bulgaria * 1994: Bishop

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, Palestine * 1996: Stanley Mogoba, South Africa * 1997:

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, Italy * 1998:

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, Ghana * 1999:

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, Argentina

2000s

* 2000:

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, South Africa * 2001: Evangelist Joseph Rice Hale, USA * 2002:

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, Macedonia * 2003:

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, Bolivia * 2004:

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and

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, USA * 2005: Bishop

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, Kenya * 2006:

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, Nigeria * 2007: Harold Good, Northern Ireland * 2008:

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, USA * 2009: Jeannine Brabon, Colombia

2010s

* 2011: Rosalind Colwill, for work in Nigeria * 2012: Joy Balazo,

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* 2013: Marion and Anita Way, for work in Angola and Brazil * 2014: Dr. Hugh and Shirliann Johnson, for work in Algeria * 2015: Jo Anne Lyon, USA * 2017: Nassar Family and Tent of Nations, Israel/Palestine * 2017: Methodist Churches in Italy (OPCEMI) * 2018: Inderjit Bhogal, UK * 2019: James T. Laney, USA

2020s

* 2020: John K. Yambasu, Sierra Leone * 2021: Rev. Olav Pärnamets, Estonia * 2022: Rev. Ebenezer Joseph, Sri Lanka * 2023: Bishop Christian Alsted, Denmark * 2024: Deaconess Norma Dollaga, Philippineshttps://www.rappler.com/philippines/filipina-deaconess-norma-dollaga-wins-world-methodist-peace-award-2024/

References

External links

Official site
{{award-stub Methodism Peace awards Awards established in 1976