Previous Winners
University Of Louisville Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order
2012- Severine Autesserre
Analysis of what went wrong in Congo wins Grawemeyer Award. Autesserre's idea that lasting conflict resolution must take place from the bottom up as well as from the top down “holds great promise for the pursuit of peace.”
2011 - Kevin Bales
Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, a human rights organization based in Washington, D.C., won the $100,000 annual prize for ideas set forth in his 2007 book, “Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves.”
2010 - Trita Parsi
Improving relations between Iran and Israel is the key to achieving lasting peace in the Middle East, says the winner of the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
2005 - Francis Deng and Roberta Cohen
Guidelines for a protection and aid system for internally displaced people, or people who are displaced within their home nations
2002 - No Competition
The Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order was not awarded for 2002.
2001 - Janine Wedel
"Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998"
1999 - No Competition
The Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order was not awarded for 1999.
1998 - No Competition
The Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order was not awarded for 1998.
1992 - Samuel Huntington, Herman Daly and John Cobb
"The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century"
1990 - Robert Jervis
"The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon"
