Bremen Peace Award 2005

In autumn 2005 the Threshold Foundation in Bremen will place for the 2nd time the following Award:

Crossing Boundaries / Breaking Vicious Circles * Bremen Peace Award 2005 of the Threshold Foundation for exemplary commitments for justice, peace and integrity of creation.

Again persons, initiatives or projects will be honored for a special contribution
in one or several of the following areas: Reconciliation, human rights, countering
racism, social justice, integrity of the creation, cross-cultural or cross-religious
communication. Award winners will be selected in the three categories below.
Beside the money award of 5000 Euro each for one of the proposed persons/initiatives the Threshold plans again a publication of a limited number of particularly convincing projects taken from the overall amount of nominations in an English and German brochure to draw the attention of a worldwide audience towards such peace work.

The Award has been assigned in 2003 for the 1st time. The Award Winners in 2003 have been Weronika Sakowska (Refugee help in Ruanda), "Parents Circle" (Reconciliation work in the Near East) and Hans Count of Sponeck (Resistance against the Iraq war). The Award Winners and 26 other proposals have been documented in a brochure "Courageously Crossing Thresholds".

The awards ceremony will be in presence of the award winners November 2005 in Bremen.

Invitation for proposals in category A: Award for the Unknown Peace Worker
This category targets at little known, small initiatives/projects, but also at committed single persons working in the fields above with special emphasis for unconventional initiatives at the grassroots level of peace work.

Invitation for proposals in Category B: Award for Exemplary Initiatives
In this category we seek for initiatives or organizations with exemplary commitment for the aims of the Threshold Peace Award described above.

Invitations for Proposals in Category C: Award for public contributions for justice, peace and integrity of creation. In this category an award will be given to persons in the public, who have shown sustainable and courageous commitment for peace and justice, like journalists or academics but also politicians or artists.

In category A persons and organizations can nominate themselves, in categories B and C self-proposals are not possible.

All proposals must contain the following information:
- Name, email-address and web-site of the proposed person/initiative and the name
of a reference person (for organizations)
- Description of the proposal and reasons for the nomination
- In case of self-nominations additionally: Two external referees (with names and email addresses), which may be contacted by the Threshold for further information about the proposal

The contents of a proposal shall not exceed two pages. The proposal details must be emailed in German or English language (if possible) till 31 January 2005 to Dr Burkhard Luber at the Threshold Foundation(mailto:luber@dieschwelle.de).

Persons/Initiatives, already nominated for the Award 2003, can be nominated again for 2005, if new activities are presented which has to be documented in the proposal text.

All information about the Award 2003 (Call for Proposals, Award Winners, Award Brochure) can be seen at www.dieschwelle.de/content/englisch/peace_award.html. The English Award
2003 brochure can be ordered free of charge with mailto:stiftung@dieschwelle.de

More information are available at www.dieschwelle.de/content/englisch/index.html or
with mailto:luber@dieschwelle.de