El Hibri Peace Education Prize

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Country United States		First awarded 2007

Awarded for Contributions in peace education Official website elhibrifoundation.org/peaceawardsprogram/peace_ed_prize

The El-Hibri Peace Education Prize was established by Fuad El-Hibri in 2007 for the purpose of honoring an outstanding scholar, practitioner or policymaker annually in order to raise awareness of and to promote the expansion of the field of peace education. Today the prize is the longest-running program of the El-Hibri Foundation, which advances peace education and respect for diversity through programs and grant-making.

Mission: The El-Hibri Peace Education Prize recognizes outstanding peace educators based in the United States by awarding $30,000 annually to an individual making valuable contributions to peace education.

The Prize is designed for individuals who have:

Demonstrated, through careful assessment, the effectiveness or impact of peace education initiatives or programs as a tool of peace building;

Raised public awareness about the positive impact of peace education programs and activities by using social media or other innovative methods;

Encouraged the widespread adoption or integration of peace education curricula, activities or programs in schools or community settings.

Who is Eligible? Eligible nominees or applicants may come from diverse backgrounds:

Scholars in diverse fields who have produced influential research demonstrating the effectiveness of peace education or its building blocks (such as social emotional learning);

Teachers or administrators who have advanced peace education in school or university settings;

Social change activists who have promoted peace education in communities or used innovative methods, such as social media, to spread it widely;

Policymakers who have championed peace education successfully.

Laureates are also selected on the basis of the following criteria:

Productivity: Having produced significant and tangible outputs, such as books, articles, seminars, campaigns or established important organizations;

Innovation: Having developed cutting edge techniques or approaches that demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of peace education through methods of evaluation; or

Influence: Having their approaches, techniques or products widely used by others to promote better understanding about, or improved delivery of, peace education.

Priority consideration is also given to applicants or nominees still in the midst of active careers with the potential to make future contributions to peace education.

How Does It Work?

The El-Hibri Peace Education Prize is implemented in partnership with Nonviolence International (NI), which manages an independent review process on behalf of the Foundation. Members of the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize Selection Committee, currently chaired by NI President Mubarak Awad, include experts in the field of peace education and previous Prize Laureates. The selection process may include interviews with references familiar with the nominee’s unique contributions to the field of peace education.

All Laureates are selected from written applications submitted either by an individual applying for the Prize or nominating another person.

El-Hibri Peace Education Recipients:

2014 Laureate: Pietro Ameglio

2013 Laureate: Betty Reardon

2012 Laureate: Chaiwat Satha-Anand

2011 Laureate: Gene Sharp

2010 Laureate: Colman McCarthy

2009 Laureate: Mary King

2008 Laureate: Scott Kennedy

2007 Laureate: Abdul Aziz Said

References

El-Hibri Peace Education Prize Wikipedia

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