Gandhi Peace Award Laureates
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1960)
- Edwin T. Dahlberg (1960)
- Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath (1961)
- John Haynes Holmes (1961)
- Linus C. Pauling (1962)
- James Paul Warburg (1962)
- E. Stanley Jones (1963)
- A.J. Muste (1966)
- Norman Thomas (1967)
- Jerome Davis (1967)
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1967)
- Benjamin Spock (1968)
- Wayne Morse (1970)
- Willard Uphaus (1970)
- U Thant (1972)
- Dorothy Day (1975)
- Daniel Ellsberg (1976)
- Peter Benenson and Martin Ennals (1978)
- Roland Bainton (1979)
- Helen Caldicott (1980)
- Corliss Lamont (1981)
- Randall Watson Forsberg (1982)
- Robert Jay Lifton (1984)
- Kay Camp (1984)
- Bernard Lown (1986)
- John Somerville (1987)
- César Chávez (1989)
- Marian Wright Edelman (1990)
- George McGovern (1991)
- Ramsey Clark (1992)
- Lucius Walker, Jr. (1993)
- Roy Bourgeois (1994)
- Edith Ballantyne (1995)
- The New Haven/León Sister City Project (1996)
- Howard and Alice Frazier (1997)
- Michael True (2002)
- Dennis Kucinich (2003)
- Karen Jacob and David Cortright (2004)
- Ehud Bandel and Arik Ascherman (2011)
- Amy Goodman (2012)
- Sources
- "Gandhi Peace Award Recipients". Promoting Enduring Peace. n.d.. http://www.pepeace.org/gandhi-peace-award. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
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