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2011 Common Ground Awards
The 2011 Common Ground Awards were held at the Carnegie Institution for Science on October 27th in Washington DC.
The Common Ground Awards are presented annually to honor outstanding accomplishments in conflict resolution, negotiation, community building, and peacebuilding. Recipients have made significant contributions toward bridging divides between people and finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems. We honor groups or individuals who have dealt with conflicts in new ways, who have met crises with creativity, wisdom and courage, and who can inspire and bring hope to others.
Award recipients work internationally or in their local communities. How they deal with the challenges of conflict varies. Yet they all show us our best selves and what can be achieved when we work with, and for, each other.
The 2011 Common Ground Award Recipients
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BISHOP JOHN CHANE, CARDINAL THEODORE McCARRICK & AMB. (RET.) WILLIAM MILLER
For their role in securing the release of the American hikers from Iran |
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THE FREEDOM RIDERS
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides
which successfully desegregated interstate travel;
Accepting will be Rep. Bob Filner, Rep. John Lewis, and Diane Nash, Leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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RAIS BHUIYAN
Post-9/11 hate crime victim
who led the campaign to
have his attacker's death
sentence commuted |
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MO IBRAHIM FOUNDATION
Supporting good governance and
responsible leadership in Africa;
Hadeel Ibrahim, Executive Director
of the Foundation, will accept the Award |
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EMMANUEL JAL
Former child soldier from Southern Sudan; Successful recording artist,
activist, philanthropist and subject of the film War Child |
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HM QUEEN NOOR of JORDAN
For her life-long commitment
to improving understanding and
tolerance among Western, Arab
and Muslim societies |
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