War Resisters League Peace Award

War Resisters League Peace Award

Since 1958, the "War Resisters League", the pacifist group founded in 1923, has awarded almost annually its War Resisters League Peace Award to a person or organization whose work represents the League's radical nonviolent program of Gandhian action.

Laureates

External links

*https://secure.serve.com/resist/wrl_peaceawards.htm


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