Global Citizen Millenium Awards
Making Community Work:
A Lifetime of Local and Global Public Service

About The Award

The Global Citizen Award is presented to an outstanding individual who transcends national boundaries; works tirelessly for all peoples and their universal human rights; focuses the world's attention on pressing human and social conditions by being a moral witness to the process of peace and reconciliation. The award recipient embodies the leadership, responsibility and promise of global citizenship.

Recipients

• 2001 J. JOSEPH MOAKLEY, Congressman
• 2000 GEORGE MITCHELL, Senator
• 1999 JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH chair, Global Citizens Circle International Advisory Board, professor emeritus, Harvard University
• 1998 CORETTA SCOTT KING founding president, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
• 1997 GRAÇA MACHEL chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa; first lady, Mozambique, South Africa
• 1996 OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ former president of Costa Rica; Nobel peace laureate; founder, Center for Peace and Reconciliation
• 1995 NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA president of the Republic of South Africa
• 1994 BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI secretary-general, United Nations