Tanenbaum invites you to honor the individuals who are making this world a reality by submitting your nomination for the Peacemaker in Action award—a unique recognition that offers much more than a one-time prize.
Tanenbaum’s Peacemaker in Action award recognizes
religiously motivated men and women who put their lives at risk to
advance peace in areas of armed conflict around the world.
Peacemakers are positively impacting
local, national and international communities. They work behind the
scenes to prevent, transform and end violence by mediating hostilities,
negotiating ceasefires, conducting citizen diplomacy, and promoting
reconciliation. They also create sustainable people-to-people peace
through civil society initiatives, education, music, traditional ritual
and more.
Peacemakers in Action must meet five criteria:
1) they must be religiously motivated,
2) they must work or have recently worked in a zone of armed conflict,
3) their life or liberty must be at risk,
4) they must be locally based, and
5) they must be relatively unknown.
Too often, the contributions of local peacemakers go
unrecognized and their full potential remains unrealized. Tanenbaum
acknowledges and helps to empower these individuals, and makes the
lessons of their work broadly known.
The Award
Awardees who are named Tanenbaum Peacemakers in Action
receive a cash prize to strengthen their work. But that is just the
beginning. Tanenbaum also creates greater recognition of the Peacemaker’s work
by promoting it to the public and producing an in-depth case study and
analysis of their experiences, techniques and strategies to help educate
other peacebuilding practitioners. New awardees also join an
extraordinary group of their peers, becoming a member of Tanenbaum’s Peacemakers in Action Network.
Tanenbaum periodically convenes the Network so that members can learn
from each other, build a unique community of peace-practitioners and
then work together to benefit their communities.
The Women's Peace Initiative
Through its Women’s Peace Initiative, Tanenbaum deliberately seeks to identify female Peacemakers in Action
engaged in the same bold work as their male counterparts. Over the
years, we have found that the majority of our nominees are men. Both men
and women tend to nominate their male colleagues, and the powerful
peace work of women goes unrecognized. Moreover, while religious
peacemakers as a group are often excluded from peace processes, the
critical work of women peacebuilders is frequently undermined and worse,
prohibited. Distinguishing these women makes it harder to marginalize
their efforts for peace. At its inception in 2006, the Women’s Peace Initiative responded to calls to honor women Peacemakers in the Middle East and North Africa. Today, the Initiative recognizes women in conflict zones across the globe.
You can submit an electronic application online or send in a hard copy. Please see the How to Nominate page for further information.
Moreinfo: https://www.tanenbaum.org/2011-2012-peacemaker-nominations
