Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter to receive Mohatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award

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JMU to honor Jimmy Carter
Former first couple to receive peace award
By Rebecca Martinez/staff • [e-mail] • September 14, 2009

HARRISONBURG — Former President Jimmy Carter will visit James Madison University this month to receive an award and give a public lecture about peace.

On Sept. 21, the International Day of Peace, Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, will be awarded the second Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award from JMU's Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, which promotes education, peace and social justice in memory of Gandhi.

Keith May, chair of the Gandhi Center, said the award reflects the couple's contributions to humanity.

After leaving the White House, the former first couple founded the Carter Center, a nonprofit organization that promotes nonviolence and social justice. According to its Web site, the organization helped farmers multiply grain production in 15 African countries, mediated civil and international conflicts, worked to prevent the spread of disease in Latin America and Africa and strove to diminish the stigma against mental illness.

The Gandhi Center presents the award every two years. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the first award in 2007. He, like Carter, is a Nobel laureate and a member of the Elders, an international alliance of senior statesmen.
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[LeftishBrit]

1. k&r

[politicalmama]

2. This is very sweet

He has worked very hard for peace. A good man.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

:thumbsup: