ICMGLT Repairer Awards

Through its Leadership, Excellence and Recognition Repairer Awards and Development/Advancement and Research Grants, the International Center for (the Study, Prevention and Treatment) of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma recognizes bi-annually individuals and organizations dedicated to repairing the world through healing or ensuring justice to individuals, families, communities and societies ruptured and scarred by intergenerational trauma. 

2022 Repairer Awards Dinner

Friday, October 21, 2022 

Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr.: Welcoming Prayer
Dr. Yael Danieli, ICMGLT Founder and Executive Director: welcome, the Center, introductions and the meaning of the Repairer Awards

D.W. Gregory, Repairer Excellence Award 


For utilizing her exquisite, accessible playwriting to educate and inspire change by exposing the destructive legacies of systemic conspiracies of silence. 

Introduced by Alex Roe, Artistic Director, Obie winner Metropolitan Playhouse, New York City 

Acceptance: D.W. Gregory

Declan O’Rourke, Repairer Recognition Award

For applying his abundant talents and empathic knowledge to convey the horrors of the Great Hunger for generations of Ireland and the world. 

Introduced by Professor Christine Kinealy, Director, Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Quinnipiac University; ICMGLT Board Member

Acceptance: Declan O’Rourke And performing Poor Boy’s Shoes

Closing remarks by: Pablo de Greiff, Director, Transitional Justice Program and Prevention Project, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU. ICMGLT Board Member and Chair, Policy Committee.

A caring word: While we are deeply grateful to gather in-person, for the wellbeing of all present and their loved ones we request that all in attendance have been fully vaccinated and boosted.

Prior ICMGLT Repairer Awardees:

Benetick Kabua Maddison, Marshallese Educational Initiative, ICMGLT Advisory Council Member, Repairer Recognition Award

For promoting and facilitating active dialogue among diverse communities to foster positive social change November 2021

Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima survivor; Campaigner for International Campaign for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – a recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, ICMGLT Honorary Board Member, Repairer Leadership

For emerging from humanity’s nuclear darkness to courageously ensure the light for generations to come. August 6, 2022

The following are our 2022 repairer awardees:

D.W. Gregory, Repairer Excellence Award 


For utilizing her exquisite, accessible playwriting to educate and inspire change by exposing the destructive legacies of systemic conspiracies of silence.

Declan O’Rourke, Repairer Recognition Award

For applying his abundant talents and empathic knowledge to convey the horrors of the Great Hunger for generations of Ireland and the world.

 

Benetick Kabua Maddison, Marshallese Educational Initiative, ICMGLT Advisory Council Member, Repairer Recognition Award

For promoting and facilitating active dialogue among diverse communities to foster positive social change November 2021

Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima survivor; Campaigner for International Campaign for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – a recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, ICMGLT Honorary Board Member, Repairer Leadership

For emerging from humanity’s nuclear darkness to courageously ensure the light for generations to come. August 6, 2022

2023 Repairer Awards Dinner

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr.: Welcoming Prayer
Dr. Yael Danieli, ICMGLT Founder and Executive Director: welcome, the Center, introductions and the meaning of the Repairer Awards

H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser, Repairer Excellence Award

For singularly pursuing the definition and inclusion of aggression as an atrocity crime under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. 

Introduced by Roger Clark, JSD, LLD, Board of Governors Professor of Law, Rutgers Law, Camden, NJ, ICMGLT Board Member

Acceptance: H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser

Souleymane Guengueng, Repairer Leadership Award

For emerging from hell to document and rally fellow victims to ensure that dictators are brought to justice. 

Introduced by Reed Brody, a Hungarian-American human rights lawyer and author of To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissene Habre

Acceptance: Souleymane Guengueng

International Women’s Media Foundation Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship Repairer Development/Advancement Grant

For supporting women journalists to beat witness to atrocities and legacies of trauma and suffering worldwide, towards human rights and social justice

Introduced by Edie Lederer, an award-winning journalist who, for over 50 years has worked for the Associated Press (AP) first covering wars, political upheavals and disasters worldwide, and since 1998, as AP’s Chief Correspondent at the United Nations

Acceptance: Peter S. Canellos, an award-winning writer, former Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe, Executive Editor of Politico, on behalf of the Elizabeth Neuffer Fund

Closing remarks by: Pablo de Greiff, Director, Transitional Justice Program and Prevention Project,Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, NYU. ICMGLT Board Member and Chair, Policy Committee

The following are our 2023 repairer awardees:

H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser, Repairer Excellence Award

For singularly pursuing the definition and inclusion of aggression as an atrocity crime under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

Souleymane Guengueng, Repairer Leadership Award

For emerging from hell to document and rally fellow victims to ensure that dictators are brought to justice

International Women’s Media Foundation Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship Repairer Development/Advancement Grant

For supporting women journalists to beat witness to atrocities and legacies of trauma and suffering worldwide, towards human rights and social justice

2023 Repairer Awards Dinner

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr.: Welcoming Prayer
Dr. Yael Danieli, ICMGLT Founder and Executive Director: welcome, the Center, introductions and the meaning of the Repairer Awards

The Honourable Ralph Everard Gonsalves, Repairer Leadership Award

For relentlessly championing reparative justice to help heal the multigenerational legacies of slavery as a crime against humanity

Introduced by H.E. Mr. Dennis Francis, President of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Acceptance: H.E. Ralph Everard Gonsalves Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, President pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)

Moran Zer-Katzenstein, Repairer Leadership Award

For creating Bonot Alternativa to imaginatively and thoughtfully ensure that women’s experiences, perspectives and voices equally determine their and society’s destinies

Introduced by Dr. Yael Danieli, ICMGLT Founder and Executive Director Acceptance: Ms. Moran Zer-Katzenstein, MBA

Julia Olson, Repairer Excellence Award

For founding Our Children’s Trust, trailblazing an inspiring path to victory and hope in the first U.S. children’s constitutional climate trial

Introduced by Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, former Executive Director of WITNESS, President, Access Now Europe, Board member, Doc Society

Acceptance: Julia Olson, JD

The following are our 2023 repairer awardees:

The Honourable Ralph Everard Gonsalves, Repairer Leadership Award

For relentlessly championing reparative justice to help heal the multigenerational legacies of slavery as a crime against humanity

Moran Zer-Katzenstein, Repairer Leadership Award

For creating Bonot Alternativa to imaginatively and thoughtfully ensure that women’s experiences, perspectives and voices equally determine their and society’s destinies

Julia Olson, Repairer Excellence Award

For founding Our Children’s Trust, trailblazing an inspiring path to victory and hope in the first U.S. children’s constitutional climate trial