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Home / Awards / Path to Peace Award / 2010
THE PATH TO PEACE AWARD RECIPIENTS 2010 - Her Excellency Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon On 8 June 2010 the Path to Peace Foundation bestowed the 2010 Path to Peace Award to Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon.
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Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University, She is the author of numerous works in the fields of human rights, comparative law, constitutional law and political theory. Her most recent book, Traditions in Turmoil (2006), won the International Capri-San Michele Prize and the Premio Capalbio in 2008, and her history of the framing of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2001) was described by the New York Times reviewer as the definite study of that historic achievement. In 1993, her comparative study, The Transformation of Family Law, won the Legal Academy’s highest award, the Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award, and in 1988, she received the Scribes Book Award given by the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects for Abortion and Divorce in Western Law. Mary Ann Glendon is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Comparative law, and is a past president of the UNESCO-sponsored International Association of Legal Science. Ambassador Glendon was appointed President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences by Pope John Paul II on March 9, 2004, already having been a member of the Academy since its inception in 1994, and in 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed her to a second five-year term. In 1995, she headed the 22-member delegation of the Holy See to the Fourth U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing. She was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2002-2005. In 1994, she was a signer of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, an ecumenical document aimed at rapprochement between Catholics and Evangelicals.
For more information, e-mail the Path to Peace Foundation at mail@thepathtopeacefoundation.org or call (212) 370-9614. New York, June 2010
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Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of
the Holy See to the United Nations, and President of the Path to Peace
Foundation, announced that decision made by the Board of the Path to
Peace Foundation, an agency established to carry out projects to support
the work of the Holy See Mission to the United Nations.
President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and former U.S.
Ambassador to the Holy See (from 29 February 2008 to 19 January 2009).
In
addition to the Path to Peace Award, two individuals received the
Servitor Pacis Award for their contribution to the common good.
These honorees are Mr. Kevin M. Ryan, the
President of Covenant House,
and Dr. Peter J. Kelly, the President of the Board of Directors of CRUDEM
Foundation, which administers Sacré Coeur Hospital in Milot, Haiti. The
event was held at a Gala Dinner sponsored by the Path to Peace
Foundation at the New York Athletic Club.