Michael Sattler Peace Prize
The Michael Sattler Peace Prize has been awarded by the German Mennonite Peace Committee (DMFK) since 2006 . With the Peace Prize named after Michael Sattler , the DMFK occasionally honors groups, projects or people who have campaigned for peace and reconciliation with their practical commitment or theological thinking. Michael Sattler was executed at the stake in Rottenburg am Neckar in 1527 for his non-violent peace certificate.
The award ceremony usually takes place in Rottenburg , Sattler's place of execution. In 2013, the award ceremony took place for the first time in the former monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest , where Michael Sattler worked before he converted to the Reformation Anabaptist movement .
German Mennonite Peace Committee
As a body of work Mennonite communities was German Mennonite Peace Committee in 1956 in response to the German rearmament founded. After the Second World War , the German Mennonites tried to reconnect with the pacifist theology of the early Mennonites. With reference to the Sermon on the Mount , the Mennonites of the Reformation already stood for nonviolence .
Award winners
- 2006: Christian Peacemaker Teams
- 2007: Tent of the Nations , Daoud Nassar peace project southwest of Bethlehem
- 2010: Howard Zehr , co-founder of the Restorative Justice Movement
- 2013: Judy da Silva, activist for the First Nations in Canada ( see also Grassy Narrows Blockade )
- 2016: Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN) and their "Christian and Muslim Peace Initiative" (CAMPI)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Krauß: Michael Sattler executed 476 years ago in Lebenshaus Schwäbische Alb on May 17, 2003 (October 8, 2011)
- ^ Michael Sattler Peace Prize for Judy da Silva. Mennonews.de, accessed on May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Fairsöhnt: Restorative Justice - How victims and perpetrators can be healed in Mennonnews.de from October 19, 2010 (total October 8, 2011)
- ^ Michael Sattler Peace Prize for Judy da Silva. Mennonews.de, accessed on May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Michael Sattler Peace Prize 2016 for Christian-Muslim Peace Initiative in Nigeria. Mennonews.de, accessed on February 23, 2016 .
Web links
- Michael Sattler Peace Prize (project homepage)
- Michael Sattler Peace Prize 2016 (on the DMFK homepage)
- Restorative Justice Online (from Prison Fellowship International)