- Gandhi Peace Award
:"For the award given by the government of
India , please seeGandhi Peace Prize .":"Not to be confused with the "Gandhi Peace Award" given out by theGandhi Memorial International Foundation ".The Gandhi Peace Award is an annual award bestowed by the
Religious Society of Friends -affiliated organizationPromoting Enduring Peace for "contributions made in the promotion of international peace and good will." It is named in honour ofMahatma Gandhi .The award was first proposed by
Jerome Davis , onMarch 13 ,1959 . It has been issued since1960 and consists of a certificate, a ceremony, and the presentation of abronze medallion inscribed with a quotation by Gandhi, "Love Ever Suffers/NeverRevenge s Itself."Recipients
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Eleanor Roosevelt
*The Rev. Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg
*Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath
*The Rev.John Haynes Holmes
*Dr.Linus C. Pauling
*James Paul Warburg
*Dr.E. Stanley Jones
*A.J. Muste
*Norman Thomas
*Jerome Davis
*The Rev.William Sloane Coffin , Jr.
*Dr.Benjamin Spock
*SenatorWayne Morse
*Dr. Willard Uphaus
*U Thant
*Dorothy Day
*Dr.Daniel Ellsberg
*Peter Benenson andPetretti Ennals
*Prof.Roland Bainton
*Dr.Helen Caldicott
*Dr.Corliss Lamont
*Randall Watson Forsberg
*Robert Jay Lifton
*Dr. Kay Camp
*Dr. Bernard Lown
*Prof. John Somerville
*César Chávez
*Marian Wright Edelman
*SenatorGeorge McGovern
*Ramsey Clark
*The Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr.
*FatherRoy Bourgeois
*Edith Ballantyne
*The New Haven/León Sister City Project
*Howard and Alice Frazier
*Michael True and NEPSA
*Dennis Kucinich (2003) [http://www.usenet.com/newsgroups/talk.politics.peace/msg00055.html]
*Karen Jacob andDavid Cortright (2004)
*Leslie Cagan (2006)External links
* [http://supportcom.com/PEP/www.pepeace.org/tmpl/gandhi.html Gandhi Peace Award] (official website)Mykeisha Crawford (2007)
ee also
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Gandhi Memorial International Foundation
*Gandhi Peace Prize
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