K. Anthony Appiah
Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University; Co-author, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award); Author, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (winner of the Herskovits Prize); Co-Editor, The Dictionary of Global Culture and Perseus Africana Encyclopedia (forthcoming); Co- Editor, Transition Magazine; Former President, Society for African Philosophy in North America; Associate Director, Black Periodical Literature Project; Board Member, W.E. DuBois Institute

For your imaginative and inspired scholarship; for your vision of a passionate and inclusive democracy; and for fulfilling the crucial role of public philosopher in the essential discourse on race, justice, and principled citizenship

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Clinical Psychologist; Member of the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Coordinator and Chair of the Western Cape Public Hearings, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa; Author, And the Brokenhearted Shall be Healers (forthcoming) and "Healing the Racial Divide? Personal Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission"; Former Expert Witness Consultant for human rights, Supreme Court of South Africa; Fellow, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School

For your courage in confronting the legacies and traumas of racial hatred and ethnic violence, for your sensitivity that has helped heal both individual and societal wounds, and for your commitment to a multiracial society

Richard J. Goldstone
Justice, Constitutional Court, South Africa; Chair, International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo; Board Chair, Human Rights Institute of South Africa; National President, National Institute of Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders; Former Chief Prosecutor, International Tribunal for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia; Former Chair, Goldstone Commission of Inquiry Regarding the prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation in South Africa, Author, For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator; Recipient, International Human Rights Award, American Bar Association

For your extraordinary courage, sensitivity and striking independence as a global political insider and judicial trailblazer who has investigated and prosecuted racial and ethnic violence and international war crimes and for your invaluable contributions to South Africa's transition from repression to democracy

Donald L. Horowitz
Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University; Author, The Deadly Ethnic Riot, Ethnic Groups In Conflict, A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Prize), Coups Theories and Officers' Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective, Community Conflict: Policy and Possibilities; Co-editor, Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

For your legacy of penetrating, original, and definitive scholarship and for your probing, uncompromising thinking on the internal dynamics of divided societies and comparative ethnicity -- your analyses dedicated to defusing violence and diminishing ethnocentrism

Ronald Takaki
Professor of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Author, Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century America, A Pro-Slavery Crusade: The Agitation to Reopen the African Slave Trade, Violence in the Black Imagination, Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, A Larger Memory: A History of our Diversity, with Voices; Former Adviser on racial issues to Vice President Al Gore

For rendering an extraordinary humane and panoramic history of all cultures and peoples; for giving voice and dignity to those too often excluded; for a bold and moral vision of a future of racial inclusion and inter-ethnic solidarity

John Wallach
Founder and Executive Director, Seeds of Peace; Recipient of the UNESCO Peace Prize and Jordan's Legion of Honor for Seeds of Peace and of the Edwin Hood Award for breaking the Iran-Contra scandal; Author, The Enemy Has a Face: The Seeds of Peace Experience; Co-Author, Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder and The New Palestinians; Former Foreign Editor, Hearst Newspapers; Former Visiting Foreign Affairs Correspondent, BBC

For trusting in the imagination and determination of international youth, for nurturing their highest instincts, for buttressing their courage, for preparing the next generation for peace