Recent Award Recipients
Complete List of Award Recipients
	August 25th, 2006 Anuradha Koirala "Mother" of the forgotten Nepali girls. Read more
	May 12th, 2006 William Kelly international artist, humanist, and human rights advocate. Read more
	October 29th, 2005 Cindy Sheehan voice of conscience for sons and daughters killed in Iraq. Read more
	June 6th, 2005 Dadi Janki member of the UN "Wisdom Keepers" for 70 years of humanitarian work throughout the world. Dadi Janki
	March 15, 2005 Camilo Mejia Amnesty Intl Prisoner of Conscience and Iraq War Conscientious Objector. Read More News
	February 25, 2005 Paul and Tatiana Rusesabagina Honors to 'Hotel Rwanda' couple. Newspaper Articles
	August 10th, 2004 September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows for turning their grief into action for peace. Photos
	March 6th, 2004 New Profile an Israeli organization dedicated to ending militarism. Ruth Hiller accepted the award. Dover Sherborn Press
	February 12, 2004 WIlliam Sloane Coffin Christian minister, author, anti-war activist and mentor to a generation of peacemakers. Speech

A Comprehensive List of the Recipients of the Courage of Conscience Award

Photo Gallery "Courage of Conscience"

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	Above: Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Boyaxhiu) Catholic nun, humanitarian and spiritual teacher, recipient of The Courage of Conscience Award.

Throughout history, peace awards have served to bring attention to humanitarian causes and great works that otherwise go unnoticed.

The increased visibility that awards provide translates into increased public attention and awareness. And from "awareness" springs movements -- the civil rights movement, the peace movement, the animal rights movement, and the movement to save the planet.

Recipients of awards represent the means by which the public is able to personally relate to a given cause. They become the lens through which a cause is experienced and embraced -- the persona or face with which the public can readily identify.

Above: Pat Ferren presents The Courage of Conscience Award to Muhammad Ali.

Awards serve to magnify and educate. They celebrate, energize and "authenticate," not individuals, but causes in ways mere press coverage cannot. More than any other form of documentation, peace awards record humankind's highest ideals and aspirations -- serving as guideposts on the pathway to peacemaking.

The coveted Nobel Peace Prize brought attention to an obscure nun in Calcutta and her compassion for the poorest of the poor, to a black civil rights leader in America and his outrage over racist laws, to an exiled monk from Tibet and the destruction of his homeland, and to an incensed black bishop from SOWETO, and the immorality of apartheid. Through awards we become aware.

	Above: Julia Butterfly Hill received the Courage of Conscience Award on October 31, 2002. Read More

Awards are many things to many people, but at heart they constitute a testimony to the hopes, the dreams, and the actions that lie at the center of an individual's commitment to a shared vision.

It is out of a desire to promote the causes of peace and justice, nonviolence and love that The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award is humbly given.

A complete list of The Courage of Conscience Award Recipients can be viewed here.