Common Ground Awards 1998

Awards were presented on October 8th 1998 at the Embassy of Finland to the following people and organizations:

Former President Jimmy Carter received the Common Ground Lifetime Achievement Award for his extraordinary efforts to resolve conflicts and improve the human condition throughout the world.

Senator George Mitchell received the Common Ground Award for International Peacemaking for his work in Northern Ireland that led to an historic step towards peace and reconciliation.

Maitre Alioune Blondin Beye (posthumously) received the Special International Common Ground Award to honor his outstanding work in the conflict in Angola.

The Alliance of Concerned Men received the Common Ground Award for Community Peacemaking for their outstanding work with urban gangs, mediating conflicts and teaching alternatives to violence.

Columnist, William Raspberry, received the Common Ground Award for Journalism for his fair-minded, constructive and consistently influential writing.

Melvin Douglas and Abbas Jadidi jointly received the Common Ground Award for Sports for their excellence in sportsmanship. This American and Iranian worked as citizen diplomats and found common ground through wrestling.

Deborah Tannen received the Common Ground Award for Books for authoring The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue, which highlights the adversarial nature of public discourse and the need to find creative and constructive ways of resolving disputes.

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