FOR SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR ANNUAL PEACE PRIZES

Annually, the Fellowship of Reconciliation awards two national peace prizes to individuals or organizations whose commitment to peace, justice, and reconciliation is recognized as a life-long commitment. The awardees receive a cash prize and a commemorative scroll. Peace groups as well as individuals are encouraged to submit nominations for the 2009 awards. To submit a name for consideration, indicate the award recommended (Pfeffer or King; see details below), write a 150 to 300-word statement of the nominee’s work for peace and justice, including the nominee’s contact information and your name as the nominator. 

Send the information to FOR by mail: Development Office, P.O. Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960, or by e-mail to development@forusa.org.  Deadline for nominations is March 1, 2009.

The International Pfeffer Peace Prize was established in 1989 by Leo and Freda Pfeffer to particularly honor those around the world working for peace with justice. Leo Pfeffer 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. A long-time FOR member, Leo was also a founding member of the Jewish Peace Fellowship. He died in 1993, but his legacy continues to contribute to a more peaceful society.

Past Recipients, International Pfeffer Peace Prize

The Pfeffer Peace Prize

1989	Don Mosley (founder of Jubilee Partners)
1990	Hildegard Goss-Mayr; Diana Francis
1991	Anita Kromberg; Richard Steele
1992	Interns for Peace
1993	Jose Gomez Izquierdo
1994	Muhammad Yunus (founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh)
1995	Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People
1996	Peace Brigades International
1997	Dorothy Granada (co-founder of the Maria Luisa Ortiz Cooperative, Mulukulu, Nicaragua)
1998	San José de Apartadó, Colombia
1999	Kathy Kelly (founder of Voices in the Wilderness, now Voices for Creative Nonviolence)
2000	Pierre Marchand
2002	Wanida Tantiwittayappitak; Muslim Peace Fellowship
2005	George Houser
2006	Caribbean Project for Peace and Justice
2007	Mel Duncan & the Nonviolent Peaceforce
2008	Serpaj Morelos, Mexico; Ricardo Esquivia (founder of SembrandoPaz); Guillermo Mateus-Corredor

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Award was established by FOR in 1979 to recognize unheralded persons or groups working in the United States in the tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr.  Dr. King was very involved with FOR, and was serving as a member of FOR's Advisory Council at the time of his death.  The award honors those who make a significant contribution to the furtherance of Dr. King’s nonviolent approach to transforming racial, economic, and social injustice.

Past Recipients of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award

The King Peace Prize

1979	Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
1980	Fay Honey Knopp
1981	Robert C. Aldridge
1982	Katherine Garry
1983	Septima Poinsette Clark
1984	Pete Seeger & Toshi Seeger
1985	Shelley Douglass & Jim Douglass
1986	Miles Horton
1987	Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen
1988	Maurice McCrackin
1989	Carl Upchurch
1990	Randall Kehler
1991	Glenn Smiley
1992	Charles Alphin; Sam Day
1993	One Day at a Time (Founded by Henry T. Wells)
1994	Daniel Alejandrez
1995	Margaret Moseley
1996	Louis Coleman
1997	Anne Brooks
1998	Ken Brown
1999	Edith Bush
2000	Kay Camp
2002	Dustin Washington
2005	Margaret Lawrence
2006	Walter Wink & June Keener Wink
2007	Samina Faheem Sundas & American Muslim Voice
2008	George Lakey (founder, Traning for Change)

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