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February 2003
Vol. IX, No. 2
National Peace Foundation Awards
The National Peace Foundation, an early supporter of the U.S. Institute of Peace, presented its annual Peacemaker/ Peacebuilder Awards on December 4, 2002.
Institute president Richard Solomon presented Pioneering Peacebuilder Awards to the late James and Mariann Laue, the late Milton C. and Jane Mapes, and Thomas C. Westropp. Their work in launching the National Peace Academy Campaign
in 1976 led to the Congressional Commission on a Peace Academy in 1982, the creation of the National Peace Foundation, and ultimately to the establishment of the Institute.
Betty F. Bumpers, a member of the Institute's Board of Directors and founder of Peace Links, was honored, along with her Peace Links colleagues, with a Peacebuilder Award for the organization's 20 years of creating citizen-to-citizen programs, working against nuclear proliferation, and developing innovative programs in American schools.
