LennonOno Grant for Peace

The LennonOno Grant for Peace is an award presented by artist and peace activist Yoko Ono. The grant, a sum of $50,000, has been awarded biennially to people and organisations chosen by Ono herself since 2002, in honour of Ono's late husband John Lennon.

Recipients

2002

• Zvi Goldstein
• Khalil Rabah

2004

• Mordechai Vanunu
• Seymour Hersh

2006

• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Médecins Sans Frontières

2008

• Iceland
• Vandana Shiva

2010

• Josh Fox
• Barbara Kowalcyk
• Michael Pollan
• Alice Walker

2012

• Lady Gaga
• Rachel Corrie (awarded )
• John Perkins
• Christopher Hitchens (awarded posthumously)
• Pussy Riot

2014

• Jann Wenner
• Jeremy Gilley
• Art Production Fund
• Jón Gnarr

2016

• Olafur Eliasson
• Sir Anish Kapoor
• Katalin Ladik
• Ai Weiwei

2018

• Make the Road New York
• Wounded Warrior Fund at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

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