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    • What We Do >
      • Gandhi Birthday Celebration
      • Peace Award
      • Peace in the Schools
      • Annual Essay Contest
      • Other Projects
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  • Gandhi's Teachings
    • 21 Simple Rules to Live By
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Annual Gandhi Peace Award

PictureArchie Archuleta won the award in 2015.
Every year we give the Gandhi Peace Award to a Utahn who has worked tirelessly for peace.

What is the Gandhi Peace Award? Let us explain.

One of the more famous Gandhi quotes is, “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”  This quote leaves a lot not said.  And it leaves a lot open.  What change do I most want to see in the world?  What change do you most want to see in the world?  And how long do we want to make our list of changes?

The people chosen for a Gandhi Peace award have in some way lived a change that is needed in our world.  Generally speaking, our award recipients stand out because of a life of service.  But service comes in many forms.  The recipient may or may not be considered a leader.  As one of our recipients shared when she received the award, “I’m a foot soldier for peace.”

We seek people who share the ideal of nonviolence, but who also have an awareness that we don’t live in a world where all have equal opportunity. We thus have a responsibility to attempt to right some of the wrongs of our world.

We share the attitude expressed by the 17th century rabbi who said,  God will not ask me, ‘Why weren’t you Moses?’ Rather he will ask me, ‘Why were you not Zusya?  We are not asking anyone to be another Gandhi, but rather to allow their own light to shine.

Past award recipients

2016    Elise Lazar

​2015    Robert 'Archie' Archuleta

2014    Gail Blattenberger

2013    Emma Lou Warner Thayne

2012    Kathryn French

2011    Hiram Chodosh

2010   Peggy Christensen

2009   Marshall Thompson

2008   George Cheney and Michael Minch

2007   Jane Beckwith

2006   Gail Johnson, Terry Tempest Williams

2005   Lou Borgenicht

2004   Most Rev. George H. Niederauer

2003   Forrest C. Crawford, Pat Gamble-Hovey, Nancy Hedrick

2002   Dorothy Freed, Corbin Harney, Florien Wineriter

2001    Khando Chazotsang, Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, Joan W. Smith

2000   Andy Schoenberg, Pete Suazo, Edith Zimmer

1999    Rev. France Davis, Diana Hirschi, Scott Leckman, Dee Rowland
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