Was Resisters League Peace Award
The War Resisters League Peace Award (German translation: "Peace Prize of the Association of War opponents") has been awarded since 1958 by the War Resisters League organization founded in 1923 . The US- based organization with headquarters in New York is a US-American section of War Resisters' International and propagates non-violence in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi .
Award winners
- 1958 Jeannette Rankin
- 1961 Tracy Mygatt , Frances Witherspoon
- 1962 Jim Peck
- 1963 Dorothy Day
- 1964 James and Diane Bevel
- 1965 Bayard Rustin
- 1966 Norman Thomas
- 1967 Barbara Deming
- 1968 The Resistance
- 1970 People Resisting within the Military
- 1971 Majorie Swann
- 1974 Daniel Berrigan
- 1975 Dave Dellinger
- 1976 Julius Eichel
- 1977 Marion and Ernest Bromley
- 1978 David Berkingoff and Prafulla Mukerj
- 1979 Igal Roodenko
- 1980 Grace Paley
- 1982 Bent Andreson
- 1983 Virginia Eggleston , Thomas Grabell , Ashley King
- 1984 Larry Gara
- 1985 Barbara Reynolds
- 1986 Plowshares Disarmament Community
- 1987 Dorie Bunting
- 1988 Those who have continued to focus peace work on Vietnam post-war: Don Luce, Vietnam Veterans Against the War , John McAuliff, David Truong, Bob Eaton and Lady Borton
- 1989 Children of War
- 1990 Esther Pank and Riley Bostrom
- 1991 Gulf War Resisters
- 1992 War Tax Resisters and Colrain, MA, was tax resistance activists
- 1996 The Living Theater
- 1997 Robert Parris Moses
- 1998 Movement Musicians: Odetta , Charlie King , People's Voice Cafe, Pete Seeger
- 1999 David McReynolds
- 2000 Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
- 2001 Kate Donnelly and Clay Colt
- 2002 Christian Peacemaker Teams
- 2003 September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
- 2004 Fernando Suarez
- 2005 Karl Bissinger, Ralph DiGia
- 2006 Women Resisting War from within the Military
- 2007 Center for Constitutional Rights and Torture Abolition Survivors and Support Coalition; Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award to the writer Grace Paley