Here are a few not-so-famous World Servers who
were awarded the Right Livelihood Award......
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"...For revealing, against
official opposition and persecution, the extent of the damaging
effects of the Chernobyl disaster on local people."
Vesna Terselic
Anti War Campaign of Croatia
Gajeva 55
10000 Zagreb
CROATIA
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Dr Katarina Kruhonja
Centre for Peace, Nonviolence & Human Rights
Kersovanijeva 4
H-31000 Osijek
CROATIA
E-mail: kkruho@zamir.net
Website: http://www.zamir.net/~czmos
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Michael
Succow (Germany), for his work to safeguard important ecosystems
for future generations.
"Our task is to consider and plan for a
sustainable management of all land and sea so that they carry as much as
possible of the world's genetic and ecological riches through the
pressures of the next century into what we must all hope will be a
stable and sustainable world beyond."
—Michael Succow
Cindy
Duehring (USA), for her extraordinary
courage and determination in the struggle against toxic chemicals.
In 1986 Duehring founded the Environmental Access Research Network
(EARN) of which she is Director, which in 1994 merged with and became the
research division of the Chemical Injury Information Network (CIIN) which
has over 5,000 members in 32 countries.
"Short-term profits can short-change our future...The cost of
ignoring the chemical effects on human health is quietly but steadily
growing ever higher, creating a dangerous risk to the very underpinnings
of society."
—Cindy Duehring
 Herman
Daly (USA), for his profound challenge to
conventional economics from an ecological and ethical perspective
(Honorary Award).
Daly's professional concerns have been two: the
relationship of the economy and the environment, and the relationship of
the economy to ethics. The two concerns are obviously themselves related
and in pursuing them he has made a masterly synthesis of the application
of classical concepts of capital and income to resources and the
environment, the laws of thermodynamics, and the insights of ecology,
particularly in relation to levels of flows of materials and energy through
economic systems. This synthesis has resulted in a quantum leap in
understanding as to why the economy is destroying the environment, which
has deeply influenced the whole course of the debate as to what should be
done about it.
"The optimal scale of the economy is smaller, the greater is the
degree of complementarity between natural and man-made capital; our
desire for direct experience of nature; and our estimate of both the
intrinsic and instrumental value of other species. The smaller the
optimal scale of the economy, the sooner its physical growth becomes
uneconomic."
—Herman E Daly
SERVOL
(Service Volunteered for All) (Trinidad & Tobago), for
fostering spiritual values, co-operation and family responsibility in
building society.
"SERVOL is an organisation of weak, frail, ordinary, imperfect yet
hope-filled and committed people, seeking to help weak, frail, ordinary,
imperfect, hope-drained people become agents of attitudinal and social
change in a journey which leads to total human development."
—SERVOL mission statement
The
Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP)/Sithembiso Nyoni
(Zimbabwe), for motivating its million members to follow their own path
of human development.
"A people's culture is an essential
mobilising tool for development. Indeed, for us this is the rootedness,
the culturally appropriate path to development. As major experts in
their own culture, people thus take control of their development theory
and practice."
—Sithembiso Nyoni
 Vandana
Shiva (India), for placing women and ecology at the heart of
modern development discourse.
"The primary threat to nature and
people today comes from centralizing and monopolizing power and control.
Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a
chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving
diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative."
—Vandana Shiva
Hans-Peter Dürr/Global Challenges Network (West Germany), for his work on
the peaceful uses of high technology
"Peace in its real sense
can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes... It is
high time for us to focus our attention on the real problems which are
threatening all of us—in fact, life on this planet."
—Hans-Peter Dürr
Robert
Jungk (Austria), futurist and tireless worker for peace and
ecology (Honorary Award)
"Alternative networks, seedbeds of a
new culture, have been growing in all industrial nations during the last
few decades. Their members are not waiting for the big day of sudden
change. They are starting here and now to build convincing models of
peaceful existence. These self-help groups not only help themselves,
they give hope to many others. In an epoch of mounting crises, people
who can offer possible solutions have greatly increased chances of
influencing the course of events."
—Robert Jungk
 Amory
and Hunter Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute
(USA), energy efficiency pioneers
Hunter and Amory Lovins work together as analysts, lecturers and
consultants on energy, resource and security policy in over 30 countries.
Their prophetic analyses caused Newsweek to place them among
"the Western world's most influential energy thinkers" and to
include Amory among 28 people in the world "most likely to change the
course of business in the 1990s".
"The 'soft energy path' we foresaw in 1976 is coming true, only
more so. Now, powerful new techniques for resource efficiency are
spreading into many major industries. From these efforts in turn are
emerging practical and profitable ways to protect the environment,
create durable local economies and build real security - not at a cost
but at a profit."
—Hunter and Amory
Lovins
 Petra
Kelly (West Germany), co-founder of the German Greens and
untiring worker for a just and peaceful world.
"The vision I see
is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self—and
co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics
means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship
Earth...In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further
development of non-violence—not only as a philosophy but as a way of
life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the
missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry—becomes one of the most urgent priorities."—Petra Kelly
And a few well known
Servers who won the Nobel Peace Prize........
GEORGE
CATLETT MARSHALL , General,
President American Red Cross, ex-Secretary of State and of Defense,
Delegate to the U.N., Originator of the Marshall Plan.
 Prophets
of Peace
Lech Walesa (1983 Nobel Peace Prize), an electrician from Gdansk,
Poland, led the Solidarity movement that helped bring about the downfall
of communism and later served as President of Poland; Oscar Arias (1987
Nobel Peace Prize), served as President of Costa Rica from 1986-1990 and
was awarded the prize for his heroic efforts to establish a peace treaty
with his civil war torn neighbors; Jody Williams (1997 Nobel Peace Prize),
the founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL),
a campaign that led to nearly 125 countries signing a treaty banning the
use of landmines; David Trimble (1998 Nobel Peace Prize), the leader of
the Ulster Unionist Party has been instrumental in Northern Ireland's
quest for peace
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.,
leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil
rights.
BETTY WILLIAMS and MAIREAD
CORRIGAN, Founders of
the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).
 MOTHER
TERESA, India,
Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
"I choose the poverty
of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the Nobel) in the name of
the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the
lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout
society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by
everyone."
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL,
Argentina, architect, sculptor and human rights leader.
DESMOND MPILO TUTU,
South Africa, Bishop of Johannesburg, former Secretary General South African
Council of Churches (S.A.C.C.). for his work against apartheid.
THE 14TH DALAI LAMA (TENZIN
GYATSO),Tibet.
Religious and political leader of the Tibetan people.
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH
GORBACHEV,
President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI,
Burma. Oppositional leader, human rights advocate.
DOCTORS WITHOUT
BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES),Brussels,
Belgium.
MSF is an independent
humanitarian medical aid agency committed to two objectives: providing
medical aid wherever it is needed, regardless of race, religion,
politics or sex and raising awareness of the plight of the people we
help.
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Toni
Morrison
1993 Nobel Prize winner
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KIM DAE JUNG
for his work for democracy
and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and
reconciliation with North Korea in particular.
NELSON MANDELA
Leader of the ANC.
The
Utne Reader Walk of Fame
Not-Yet-Famous People Who Ought to
Be
By Jay
Walljasper and Jon
Spayde, Utne
Reader
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Octavia E. Butler, Science fiction
pioneer
America's foremost African American female science fiction
writer, Butler's work--11 novels and a short story collection, including the
much-heralded "Xeno-genesis" trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood
Rites, Imago)--combines a down-to-earth social reality with
otherworldly details.
Theo Colburn , The "Rachel
Carson of the '90s"
Colburn, a senior scientist for the World Wildlife Fund,
alerted the world to the threat of endocrine disrupters-synthetic chemicals
that imitate or block hormones and are linked to a range of health problems in
animals and humans-in her 1996 book, Our Stolen Future (Dutton).
Ernesto Cortes Jr. , People's
power broker
Cortes has founded more than 20 citizen groups from Des Moines
to Los Angeles, each designed to make a difference in ordinary lives. As
Southwest regional director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, a national
network of community groups, his efforts have resulted in water and sewage
treatment facilities for 400 Rio Grande Valley communities and 600 well-paying
jobs for low-income people in San Antonio.
Ted Halstead , Architect of a
Generation X political agenda
Halstead is president of the New America Foundation, a
Washington, D.C., think tank that aims to bring politically disaffected young
people back into the loop. Author of dozens of articles and studies, the
31-year-old Halstead advocates "balanced budget populism," which
would invest in education and other public services while curtailing corporate
welfare and reordering our tax system.
Jane Maxwell , Women's health
worker and activist
Maxwell, a member of the Berkeley-based Hesperian Foundation,
is a longtime advocate for Third World women and a major force behind the
publication of Where Women Have No Doctor, a unique manual for female
self-care in the developing world.
Gabrielle Roth , Ecstatic dancer
and healer
A pioneer in the development of "ecstatic dance,"
Roth has promoted the healing powers of dance to a mainstream audience for
more than a decade. Her work demonstrates that beneath the free-form movement
lies a compelling vision of how to understand the self and reclaim the soul.
by Jay
Walljasper and Jon
Spayde
From Utne
Reader
Source: Visionaries: People and Ideas that Will
Change Your World, a not-yet-published book by Jay Walljasper and Jon Spayde
of Utne Reader.
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