Human Security Award
The Human Security Award recognizes the remarkable efforts of individuals and groups working to empower and protect the world's most vulnerable communities.
Recipients of the Human Security Award:
Heather Mills, recipient of the 2004-2005 Human Security Award
Chancellor Ralph Cicerone and CUSA Director Richard Matthew present Heather Mills McCartney with CUSA's Human Security Award at CUSA's 2004 Human Security Summit.
Heather Mills was presented the 2004 Human Security Award in recognition of her longstanding commitment to the victims of landmines. Heather Mills is an internationally renowned activist who has tirelessly campaigned for over eleven years to raise funds and awareness to rid the world of Landmines. Heather is a United Nations Goodwill ambassador whose work earned her a 1996 Nobel Peace Prize nomination. In addition, CUSA created the Heather Mills Graduate Fellowship in Human Security to allow graduate students to undertake original research on pressing security issues.
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Zainab Salbi, recipient of the 2005-2006 Human Security Award
Zainab Salbi is presented with the Human Security Award by CUSA Director Richard Matthew, 2004 Human Security Award Recipient Heather Mills McCartney and Dean Ron Huff of UCI's School of Social Ecology
Zainab Salbi was presented with the 2005 Human Security Award in recognition of her significant contributions and longstanding commitment to empowering and protecting the world's most vulnerable groups and communities. Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO of Women for Women International, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources they need to move from crisis and poverty into self-sufficient and active citizens who promote peace and stability. An Iraqi native who arrived in the U.S. at age 20, Ms Salbi's experience with the Iran-Iraq War and later the Gulf War sensitized her to the plight of women survivors of war and led her to found Women for Women International at age 23.
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Lieutenant-General Romeo A. Dallaire, recipient of the 2006-2007 Human Security Award
General Dallaire is presented with the 2006 Human Security Award by UCI's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Michael R. Gottfredson, CAHS co-chairs Sandi Jackson and Susan Samueli and CUSA Director Richard A. Matthew
Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire was presented with the 2006 Human Security Award in recognition of his tireless advocacy for peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding in the world's most war-torn regions. For the public at large, nationally and internationally, it is following General Dallaire's appointment as Commander of the United Nations Observer Mission- Uganda and Rwanda (UNOMUR) and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) on 1 July 1993 that the name Dallaire has been synonymous with courage. In recognition of his exceptional leadership and ability during that mission he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross.
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David Bornstein, recipient of the 2007-2008 Human Security Award
David Bornstein is presented with the 2007 Human Security Award by CAHS co-chairs Sandi Jackson and Susan Samueli and CUSA Director Richard A. Matthew
David Bornstein received the 2007 Human Security Award for his pioneering work on social entrepreneurship. Mr. Bornstein is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which tells the stories of individuals - from doctors to lawyers, from engineers to journalists - who are successfully demonstrating that one person with a powerful idea and a passionate drive to succeed can bring positive changes to the lives of thousands or even millions. The New York Times comments How to Change the World is, "must reading for anyone who cares about building a more equitable, and therefore, more stable world."
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Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole, recipients of the 2008-2009 Human Security Award
Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole are presented with the 2008 Human Security Award by CAHS co-chairs Sandi Jackson and Susan Samueli, Dean Ron Huff of UCI's School of Social Ecology and CUSA Director Richard Matthew
Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole filmmakers and the founders of Invisible Children Inc. received the 2008 Human Security Award in recognition of their dedication to empowering young people and raising awareness and support for the children of Uganda. Russell, Bailey and Poole set out on a film-making adventure in Africa and ended up creating a movement that channels the creativity and energy of youth in the United States and Europe into a variety of programs that allow viewers of their films to become supporters and generate resources to provide health, safety and education for the children of Uganda who are affected by a more than 20-year-long war.
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Mark Johnson and Whitney Burditt, recipients of the 2009-2010 Human Security Award
Mark Johnson and Whitney Burditt are presented with the 2009 Human Security Award by Dean Valerie Jenness of UCI's School of Social Ecology, CUSA Director Richard Matthew and CAHS co-chairs Sandi Jackson and Susan Samueli.
Mark Johnson and Whitney Burditt, the Founders of Playing for Change, received the 2009-2010 Human Security Award for their efforts to create a multimedia movement to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. In addition to their inspiring music and films, Playing for Change are building music schools across the globe to foster music, education and collaboration. Playing for Change have been featured on PBS, CBS, The Tonight Show, ABC World News, NPR, Larry King Live and the Playing for Change band launched their first world tour in the Fall of 2009.
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Alexandra Cousteau recipient of the 2010-2011 Human Security Award
Alexandra Cousteau presented with the 2011 Human Security Award by Dean Valerie Jenness of UCI's School of Social Ecology, CUSA Director Richard Matthew and CUSA Advisory Board Chair Frank Quinlan.
Alexandra Cousteau, the Founders of Blue Legacy, received the 2010-2011 Human Security Award for for her efforts to inspire people to take action on critical water issues in meaningful ways. Alexandra Cousteau takes her family's rich legacy of environmental advocacy, exploration and storytelling and moves it forward with Blue Legacy, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that she founded in 2008 to leverage new and emerging technologies to connect mainstream audiences with their local watersheds and their water planet. She advocates the critical importance of managing our water resources sustainably in order to preserve a healthy planet. Her global initiatives seek to inspire and empower individuals to protect not only the ocean and its inhabitants, but also the human communities that rely on the purity of freshwater resources.
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