Nonviolence International
The Foundation has provided support to Nonviolence International in connection with it awarding the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize. Nonviolence International believes that every cultural and religious tradition can discover and employ culturally appropriate nonviolent methods for positive social change and international peace.
Started in 2007, the El-Hibri Peace Education recognizes outstanding peace educators by awarding $20,000 annually to an individual or organization making valuable contributions to peace education and social justice. The Prize is awarded each fall at the Foundation’s headquarters.
El-Hibri Peace Education Prize Recipients
2011
Dr. Gene Sharp. Gene Sharp is Senior Scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1965 he held research appointments in Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs. Dr. Sharp has been called “the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare” and "the Machiavelli of nonviolence." He founded the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston, Massachusetts in 1983 to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in face of dictatorships, war, genocide, and oppression. Dr. Sharp is the author of several books on nonviolent struggle, power, political problems, dictatorships, and defense policy.
2010
Colman McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy is a journalist and teacher in the field of peace education. He and his wife Mavourneen founded the Center for Teaching Peace, a Washington non-profit organization helping schools at all levels begin or expand programs in peace studies and nonviolent conflict resolution. He has had more than 8,000 students in his peace studies classes. He was a columnist for The Washington Post from 1969 to 1997. He is an author of several books on peace and is also the editor of two anthologies of peace essays that are used as peace education curriculum in colleges and high schools.
2009
Dr. Mary Elizabeth King. Dr. King is professor of peace and conflict studies at the University for Peace, affiliated with the United Nations and whose main campus is in Costa Rica, and distinguished scholar with the Center for Global Peace at the American University, Washington, DC. She is also a Rothermere American Institute Fellow at the University of Oxford, Britain. She is a highly acclaimed author of several books in the fields of peace education and nonviolent civil resistance. She had worldwide responsibility for the Peace Corps in the 1970s. Former United States President Jimmy Carter sent a letter of congratulations to Dr. King for receiving the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize.
2008
Mr. Scott Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy has been a peace educator for over forty years and was instrumental in pioneering educational delegations to conflict zones, now a widely practiced form of peace education. Since 1979, he has led more than three dozen delegations to the Middle East. He co-founded the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz, California, which is one of the most active community-based peace education centers in the United States and has served as Mayor of Santa Cruz, California. A congratulatory statement for Mr. Kennedy receiving the prize was entered into the Congressional Record.
Congratulatory Congressional Record Citation by Hon. Sam Farr
2007
Dr. Abdul Aziz Said. Professor Said received the honor in recognition of his dedication to the cause of peace, his preeminent role in educating about peace and Islam in the United States and worldwide, and his fifty years as a faculty member and mentor at American University. Professor Said received a letter from the Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity, Beta Chapter, congratulating him on his fifty years of outstanding teaching at the University and the receipt of the prize.
Congratulatory Letter to Abdul Aziz Said from Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity