World BEYOND War has announced the
awardees for its fifth annual War Abolisher Awards: Ralph Nader, Roger
Waters, and Francesca Albanese.
The awardees will accept their awards in
an online event on July 24. The event is free and open to the public. Those wishing to attend the event on Zoom can register here.
The Artistic War Abolisher of 2025 award goes to Roger Waters
for his incredibly powerful combination of song-writing, singing,
speaking, and performing against the horrors of war. During the event,
we will play a new 8-minute song pre-recorded by Roger Waters called
Sumud.
The David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War Abolisher of 2025 award —
named for the late co-founder of World BEYOND War — goes to Ralph Nader for his brilliant and relentless advocacy, educating, organizing, analyzing, and criticizing war and related crimes and abuses.
The Individual War Abolisher of 2025 award goes to Francesca Albanese,
the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories
occupied since 1967, for her fearless, incisive, and eloquent reporting
on the genocide in Gaza.
The timing of the online awards event will be July 24 at 18:00 UTC,
which is 8:30 a.m. in Honolulu, 11:30 a.m. in Los Angeles, 12:30 p.m. in
Mexico City, 2:30 p.m. in New York, 7:30 p.m. in Yaoundé, and 8:30 p.m.
in Berlin.
The purpose of the awards is to honor and
encourage support for those working to abolish the institution of war
itself. With the Nobel Peace Prize and other nominally peace-focused
institutions so frequently honoring other good causes or, in fact,
wagers of war, World BEYOND War intends its awards to go to educators or
activists intentionally and effectively advancing the cause of war
abolition, accomplishing reductions in war-making, war preparations, or
war culture. World BEYOND War received hundreds of impressive
nominations. The World BEYOND War Board, with assistance from its
Advisory Board and Staff, made the selections.
The awardees are honored for their body of work directly supporting
one or more of the three segments of World BEYOND War’s strategy for
reducing and eliminating war as outlined in the book A Global Security System, An Alternative to War. They are: Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflict Without Violence, and Building a Culture of Peace.
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