Working for Peace on Earth and Peace with Earth since 1952
Working for Peace on Earth and Peace with Earth since 1952
1960 Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady • Civil Rights Activist • Chairman, UN Comm. on Human Rights
1960 Edwin T. Dahlberg
Interfaith Activist • President of National Council of Churches
1961 Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath
President, Union of Amer. Hebrew Congregations
1961 John Haynes Holmes
Co-Founder, ACLU and NAACP
1962 Linus C. Pauling
Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Nobel Peace Prize • Stockholm Peace Petition
1962 James Paul Warburg
Businessman • Industrialist • Peace Author
1963 E. Stanley Jones
Missionary to India • Popularizer of Gandhian Way • Peace Author
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr.*
Southern Christian Leadership Council • Nobel Peace Prize
1966 A.J. Muste
Progressive Labor Activist • Exec Sec, Fellowship of Reconciliation
1967 Norman Thomas
Early Leader, ACLU • Socialist Candidate for President • Peace Author
1967 Jerome Davis**
Founder, Promoting Enduring Peace • Yale Professor • Labor Rights Activist
1967 William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Chaplain, Yale • President, SANE/Freeze, Clergy & Laity Concerned
1968 Benjamin Spock
Pediatrician • Co-Founder, SANE/Freeze • Peoples Party Presidential
1970 Wayne Morse
U.S. Senator led Congressional opposition to US War in Vietnam
1970 Willard Uphaus**
President, World Fellowship of Faiths • National Religion and Labor Foundation
1972 U Thant
Secretary General, United Nations • Campaigner for Peace
1974 Daniel Berrigan***
Jesuit Priest • Plowshares Movement • Lamont Prize • Prof, Fordham
1975 Dorothy Day
Founder, Catholic Worker Movement • Progressive Journalist
1976 Daniel Ellsberg
Anti-war Whistleblower and Co-Author, The Pentagon Papers
1978 Peter Benenson
• Martin Ennals Founder & Exec Secretary, Amnesty International • Nobel Peace Prize
1979 Roland Bainton**
Campaigner for Quaker Pacifism • Professor, Yale Divinity School President of Promoting Enduring Peace
1980 Helen Caldicott
Pediatrician • President, Physicians for Social Responsibility
1981 Corliss Lamont
Civil Libertarian • Progressive Philanthropist-Author-Educator
1982 Randall Watson
Forsberg Nuclear Freeze Campaign • Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
1984 Robert Jay Lifton
Physicians for Social Responsibility • Professor, Yale, CUNY • National Book Award
1984 Kay Camp
Int’l President, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom • UNESCO
1986 Dr. Bernard Lown
Cardiologist • International Physicians Against Nuclear War • Nobel Peace Prize
1987 Professor John Somerville
Founder, International Philosophers for the Prevention of Nuclear Omnicide
1989 César Chávez
Founder United Farm Workers of America
1990 Marian Wright Edelman
Founder & President, Children’s Defense Fund • Poor Peoples Campaign
1991 George McGovern
Senator, Anti-War Leader, 1972 Democratic Candidate for President
1992 Ramsey Clark
US Attorney General • International Defense Lawyer
Founder, IFCO-Pastors for Peace, Cuba Caravans
1994 Father Roy Bourgeois
Maryknoll Priest • Founder, School of the Americas Watch
1995 Edith Ballantyne
President, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
1996 Alan Wright and Paula Kline
Co-Founders, New Haven/León Sister City Project • SosteNica
1997 Howard Frazier and Alice Zeigler Frazier**
Longest-serving PEP Exec. Dir. • Founding President, Consumer Federation of America. Zeigler Frazier: PEP Co-Executive Director
2002 Michael True
New England Peace Studies Assoc. • Prof, Assumption Coll. • Author
2003 Dennis Kucinich
U.S. Congress & Progressive Caucus • Democratic Candidate for President
2004 David Cortright
• Karen Jacob** SANE/Freeze • Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies • Chairman, Fourth Freedom Forum. Karen Jacob: President, Promoting Enduring Peace
2011 Arik Ascherman and Ehud Bandel
Rabbis for Human Rights • Bandel: Co-Founder
Ascherman: Exec. Director
2012 Amy Goodman
Progressive Journalist • Co-Founder and Anchor, Democracy Now!
2013 Bill McKibben
Founder, 350.org • Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury Coll.
Environmental Activist & Author • American Acad. of Arts & Sciences
2014 Medea Benjamin
Peace Agitator • Co-Founder, Code Pink: Women for Peace
Co-Founder, Global Exchange • Green Party candidate for US Senate
2015 Kathy Kelly and Tom Goldtooth
Kathy Kelly, non-violent anti-war activist— Tom Goldtooth leader of the Indigenous Environmental Network
2017 Ralph Nader and Omar Barghouti
Ralph Nader consumer, civic and peace activism, Omar Barghouti for his work using BDS to achieve peace between Palestinians and Israelis
* Formally accepted the Award, but unable to accept in person
** Board Member, Officer, or Staff of Promoting Enduring Peace
*** Accepted but resigned before Award ceremony
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