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Civil Courage Newsletter 8/20/10 4:39 PM Page 1 Civil Courage News Journal of the Civil Courage Prize Vol TFCivilCourageNewsV6-2-p10*:TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 8/20/10 4:39 PM Page 1 Civil Courage News Journal of the Civil Courage Prize Vol. 6, No. 2 • September 2010 For Steadfast Resistance to Evil at Great Personal Risk Canon Andrew White Wins 2010 Civil Courage Prize for Steadfastly Advocating and Working Towards Peace in Iraq he Reverend Canon Andrew White, a leading figure in the effort Tfor peace in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, will receive the Civil Courage Prize Medal for 2010 and $50,000 at a ceremony in New York on October 18th. Canon White, also known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” is rector of St George’s Church Baghdad, an ecumenical congre- gation and the last Anglican church in Iraq. He is a key participant in the peace process there and has worked since 2003 to reconcile Iraq’s disparate religious factions by devel- oping relationships with many of the most senior religious leaders within the Sunni, Shia, Kurdish, Christian and other minority communities. Working together with the Provisional Coalition Authority, Canon White helped facilitate the signing of the Baghdad Peace Accord in February 2004. The ensuing religious dialogue was seen as instrumental in the development of the reconstruction process in Iraq. In 2005, Canon White continued on page 2 Jon Meacham to Deliver Keynote Speech at Prize Ceremony on Meacham, the noted journalist and Pulitzer American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, JPrize winning author, will deliver the keynote for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in April 2009. address at October’s Civil Courage Prize Cere- He has also authored two other New York Times mony at the Council on Foreign Relations in bestsellers: American Gospel: God, the Founding New York. Mr. Meacham has spent fifteen years Fathers, and The Making of a Nation; and the at Newsweek, first as a writer, then as managing award-winning Franklin and Winston: An Intimate editor from 1998. He was appointed editor of the Portrait of an Epic Friendship, about the wartime magazine in October 2006. In March 2010, Mr. relationship between the two leaders. Meacham also became co-anchor of the weekly In addition to writing numerous book reviews for PBS public affairs program, Need to Know. The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Mr. Meacham is the author of the bestselling Post, The Los Angeles Times Book continued on page 2 TFCivilCourageNewsV6-2-p10*:TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 8/20/10 4:39 PM Page 2 Letter from the Chairman Canon Andrew White Wins 2010 Civil Courage Prize We are exceedingly grateful—and at the same time a bit apologetic— for the thoughtful nominations that eminent persons and organizations have sent us. Grateful, because these nominations are the fuel of our process and bring to our attention an array of impres- sive individuals. Apologetic, since so many entirely worthy candidates could not be recognized this year, despite their clearly displaying lives continued from page 1 co-founded the Foun- leaders in the Middle East in an effort to full of civil courage. dation for Relief and Reconciliation in the further the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. We have developed criteria to help Middle East, of which he is President and He was also one of the main negotiators us choose prize-winners, including CEO. He is widely considered to be during the siege of the Church of the a desire to focus on a different geo- extremely courageous and to have played a Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002. Before that graphical area from a recent prior vital part in the reduction of Iraq’s sectarian his efforts were focused on Nigeria where year and not to favor a candidate violence. A highlight of his work was a 2008 he worked in response to the terrible riots in who has recently received another joint Sunni-Shiite fatwa seeking peace, a call Kaduna in 2000. high recognition such as a major to end religious violence between the two Canon White is exposed to considerable prize. And of course acts recog- warring sides. This proclamation was the danger and has suffered frequent death nized should be steadfast, over result of an ongoing series of conferences threats from sectarian militia, as well as calls time. that brought together many different for his capture “dead or alive,” and has been We are profoundly moved by religious groups in Iraq with no other forum beaten, held at gunpoint and had his quarters the heroic lives of these nominees. for debate and reconciliation. ransacked. He and his staff are constantly In addition to his bridge-building work under threat, a significant number having with leading Iraqi clerics, Canon White, been murdered or kidnapped. The Iraqi who himself suffers from multiple sclerosis, armed forces now provide him with a John Train also attends to the medical needs of the people security detail and the British Foreign and A list of nominators for the 2009 of Baghdad, operating medical and dental Commonwealth Office has insisted on him and 2010 Civil Courage Prize clinics which provide services to all who leaving the country at times, but he continues nomination cycle appears on Page 3. need them, regardless of religious affiliation to return to pursue his important work. The —many of whom are Muslim. He has also former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Jon Meacham to Deliver Keynote worked as a mediator in over a hundred Carey, states that these threats have “not Speech at Prize Ceremony cases of kidnapping, effecting a successful curtailed his desire to make a difference and continued from page 1 Review, and The Wash- release in many of those cases. In 2007, I am quite sure that he would be willing to ington Post Book World, he edited, in 2001, Canon White testified before the US Com- take the ultimate step of laying down his life, Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil mission on International Religious Freedom if it made a difference for peace.” Because Rights Movement, a collection of distin- and he also continues his directorship of the of his work, Canon White is often away guished nonfiction about the mid-century International Ministry for the Diocese and from his wife and two children who live in struggle against Jim Crow. In 2007, Mr. Cathedral of Coventry. England. Meacham was awarded the Hubert H. Before arriving in Iraq, Canon White He has been the recipient of a number of Humphrey First Amendment Medal by the was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Special awards recognizing his tireless work for Anti-Defamation League, which recog- Envoy to the Middle East and a strategic peace and has written several books about nizes those who have made significant and player in bringing about the signing of the his views and experiences in Iraq, and many lasting contributions to the protection and Alexandria Declaration, which established a articles about his work and inter-faith advancement of the First Amendment. dialogue among many of the key religious activities. Page 2 September 2010 TFCivilCourageNewsV6-2-p10*:TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 8/20/10 4:39 PM Page 3 Recent News of Past Winners Aminatou Haidar, 2009 Rafael Marques de Morais, Peaceful Pursuer of Western 2006 Saharan Self-Determination Angolan Journalist and On her return home to Laayoune, Western Human Rights Activist Sahara from receiving the Civil Courage Despite constant pressure and severe Prize in New York, Moroccan officials harassment, Rafael Marques returned seized Aminatou Haidar’s passport and to the United States in April of this denied her re-entry. She was forced onto a year to continue in his efforts to Spanish aircraft and began a life-threatening hunger strike when bring attention to the wholesale looting of Angola by she disembarked in Lanzarote. She was finally returned to the government officials. Mr. Marques met with The Train Western Sahara by medical aircraft 32 days later. After just six Foundation, journalists, think tanks and government months spent at home convalescing, Ms. Haidar returned to the representatives in New York and Washington, D.C. and United States to continue her efforts to gain human rights for reported that he found a sympathetic hearing. In a let- the Sahrawi people. During her visit, Ms. Haidar met with Train ter to The Train Foundation after his trip, he stated that Foundation trustees and stated that “Morocco’s grip on the “Corruption in Angola has become the main scourge of Western Sahara constitutes the last colony in Africa and it’s the our society” and thanked the Foundation for its continued only one where human rights are not protected. Thus we do support stating that, “Moral support is as important as not enjoy freedom of speech or assembly, or political self- material assistance” and pledging to use his new contacts determination, and our resources are unilaterally exploited by in his continued fight against corruption. In addition to Morocco, the occupying power. All we ask is the basic rights that providing vital information to US Congressional staff belong to people everywhere, these found in the U.N.’sUniversal and officers, Mr. Marques has also been a key contact Declaration of Human Rights.” Ms. Haidar who has previously and resource and was quoted in a recent Wall Street been jailed by Moroccan authorities and “disappeared” without Journal article about the human rights abuses that con- charge or trial and also held for four years in a secret location, tinue in the Angolan diamond industry. Mr. Marques arrived in New York looking fragile yet determined. In the last disseminates the results of his investigations locally six months, Ms.
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