2017 Rotary People of Action: Champions of Peace Award

Ann was nominated by our district for:

the 2017 Rotary People of Action: Champions of Peace Award, and was ultimately chosen and honored by the United Nations

in Switzerland recently.   She has brought the United Nations endorsed practice of Unarmed Civilian Protection to every level of Rotary.

Since 2002, the Nonviolent Peaceforce has put forth unarmed civilians from around the world, to protect and assist  civilians who find

themselves in violent conflict. Ann was an early Unarmed Civilian Protector in Guatemala, and upon returning home,

she became a Senior Advisor to the Nonviolent Peaceforce. In that capacity, she began to do peace education around the world.  She has presented

at three of the past five Rotary Int’l Conventions about the effectiveness of Unarmed Civilian Protection, and has spoken around the world to Rotary Clubs.

Her signature project has been the leadership of a global grant dealing with a Civilian Based Peace Process in Southern Thailand, which is still ongoing.