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

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

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 th ...

(FOR), along with the

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

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

*2016 - Mães de Maio of São Paulo, Brazil *2015 -

Combatants for Peace Combatants for Peace ( he, לוחמים לשלום; ar, مقاتلون من أجل آلسلام) is an Israeli-Palestinian NGO and an egalitarian, bi-national, grassroots movement committed to non-violent action against the “Israeli occupation ...

*2014 -

Widad Akrawi Widad Akreyi is a Kurdish health expert and human rights activist. She has co-founded the human rights organization Defend International and is the author of several books about both health issues and human rights. Akreyi holds a master's degre ...

*2013 -

International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers is an international alliance of indigenous female elders that focuses on issues such as the environment, internationalism, and human rights. The group met for the first time in October ...

*2012 - Dr. Hakim *2011 -

Sonal Ambani Sonal Ambani is an Indian sculptor and author. She is known for her 2004 book ''Mothers and Daughters'', a photobook, photographic journal celebrating the mother-daughter relationship, which she wrote after losing her mother to cancer as a way of h ...

*2010 - Scott Kennedy *2009 - La’Onf network of Iraqi nonviolence communities *2008 - Ricardo Esquivia *2007 - Mel Duncan and the

Nonviolent Peaceforce Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is a nonpartisan unarmed peacekeeping organization with the goal of protecting civilians and reducing violence in areas affected by armed conflict. NP holds Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Coun ...

*2006 - Caribbean Project for Peace and Justice *2005 -

George Houser George Mills Houser (June 2, 1916 – August 19, 2015) was an American Methodist minister, civil rights activist, and activist for the independence of African nations. He served on the staff of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (1940s – 1950s). ...

*2002 - Wanida Tantiwittayappitak *2000 -

Pierre Marchand Pierre Marchand (born 1958) is a Canadian songwriter, musician and record producer. Marchand is known for his ongoing collaboration with Sarah McLachlan, having produced all of her albums since '' Solace'' in 1991. He also co-wrote several of M ...

*1999 -

Kathy Kelly Kathy Kelly (born 1952) is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of ''Voices in the Wilderness'', and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of ''Voices for Creative Nonviolence''. As part of p ...

*1998 - The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó *1997 -

Dorothy Granada Dorothy Virginia Granada (born December 8, 1930) is an American nurse, humanitarian, and peace and social justice activist who resides in Nicaragua. She founded and expanded a women's clinic in Mulukukú, Nicaragua in 1990 to provide healthcare se ...

*1996 -

Peace Brigades International Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 which "protects human rights and promotes non-violent transformation of conflicts". It primarily does this by sending international volunteers to areas of confli ...

*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 ...

*1994 -

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance ...

*1993 - José Gómez Izquierdo *1992 - Interns for Peace *1991 - Anita Kromberg and

Richard Steele Sir Richard Steele (bap. 12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729) was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine ''The Spectator''. Early life Steele was born in Du ...

*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 studi ...

and Diana Francis *1989 - Donald Mosley

References

{{reflist Peace awards Fellowship of Reconciliation

Background

Recipients

See also

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