Center for Peacemaking Awards
Center for Peacemaking Awards honor individuals and organizations that embody the mission of the Center for Peacemaking, exploring the power of nonviolence. The candidates would have fostered peace in their communities through a variety of methods such as conflict resolution, cross-cultural understanding, relationship building, and structural change. These actions may have been demonstrated in any one of the variety arenas including school, workplace, volunteer work, or family life. The community that has been impacted by the candidate may be at the local, regional, national or international level.
Awards Categories
Marquette Community Member
The award will honor a current Marquette community member: faculty, staff or student.
Youth Peacemaker
The award will honor a youth who has been active in his/her religious community, school, family, or local community. The youth is a person who can be held up as a model peacemaker for his/her peers.
Artist - Plastic, Performing, Written
The award will honor the artist and his/her work. The artist may have promoted nonviolence through his/her art work or actions. Art can include a variety of media: plastic, performing arts, music, poetry, etc.
Organization
The award will be given to a regional organization (Midwest) that embodies the mission of the Center for Peacemaking. The organization should be actively pursuing structural change in society to promote authentic nonviolent development.
Individual
The award will honor an individual who embodies the mission of the Center for Peacemaking. The nominee can be a local, regional, national or international leader.
Alumna/Alumnus
The award will honor a graduate of Marquette University who embodies the mission of the Center for Peacemaking.
Nomination Process
Candidates for the awards may either self-nominate or be nominated by someone else familiar with the candidate's achievements. The application must include a statement (800 words maximum) describing the work or activity the nominee is doing or has done as it relates to the award category.
The nominator must also provide a brief resume of the candidate which includes education, work and extracurricular history and the nominees current contact information (address, phone number and e-mail address).
All nominations must also include the completed nominator's form.
Nominators may include up to 5 supporting documents consisting the articles describing the achievement and impact; and publications by or about the nominee that directly relate to the nomination.
Nominations should be sent in electronic form (e.g. Word or Adobe PDF) to peacemaking@marquette.edu. Please put "AWARD NOMINATION" in the subject line of the e-mail.
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