Award winners from the United Kingdom, Germany and Belarus

The Bremen Peace Award 2005 for exemplary commitment to Peace, Justice and the Integrity of Creation was awarded to people and organizations from the United Kingdom, Germany and Belarus. The prize winners are united in the opinion that in their life they put every effort to breach vicious circles:

• The British Quaker Roswitha Jarman and the German Barbara Gladysch were marked for their activities with traumatized children from Chechnya
• Imam Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye from Interfaith Mediation Center in Nigeria, previously deadly foes to each other, were marked for their reconciliation activities between Muslims and Christians
• The atomic physicist Prof. Wassilij Nesterenko from Minsk, who elucidates the Belarusian people the consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe, is under high political pressure.

The prize winners and 31 other nominated persons and organizations were presented in the accompanying booklet: Bremen Peace Award 2005. “The courage to cross thresholds“. You can download the booklets here as a pdf-File or order them by requesting at stiftung@dieschwelle.de