Home About Nola Drazdoff Nola's Blog Hear Nola Speak Now Newsletter Sign Up Past Newsletters Tours Destinations Past Tours Services Speaking Life Coaching Workshops Software & Systems Reading Lists Useful Links Event Calendar Contact Us “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” ~ Proverbs 3:17 Nola with young Balinese women at Temple Ceremony, Ulu Watu Temple “Peace is not made in documents, but in the hearts of men.” ~ Herbert Hoover “Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace.” ~ Peace Pilgrim

> About Nola Drazdoff > Awards > Proactive Peacemaker's Award ~ 2002 Event Calendar Proactive Peacemaker's Award ~ 2002 Back to Awards Nola Drazdoff was selected by the Oregon Chapter of "A Season for Nonviolence" to receive a Proactive Peacemaker's award for 2002. The award was presented to her by Mary Manin Morrissy, Senior minister of Living Enrichment Center in Wilsonville Oregon on Feb 3, 2002. A Season for Nonviolence, January 30 - April 4, is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their vision for an empowered, nonviolent world. Nola was selected to recognize the fact that who she is and the work she does promotes a nonviolent world. She leads her Inspired Journey Tours all over the globe in a manner that promotes curiosity, respect and reverence amongst the people of our planet. She educates people to look for the unity that connects all people while at the same time honoring the diversity that makes our world such an amazing and interesting place. She relies heavily on the belief of the Dalai Lama that all we really need to do is to "make friends." That's what Nola does all over the world... she makes friends. ProActive Peace Maker Award: Nola Drazdoff is honored for her outstanding contribution in creating a non-violent world. ~ Oregon Season for Non-Violence 2002 Nola with her friends - Fadi and Yarra in the Arab village of Daburreya The work that Nola does in the middle east, particularly in Israel and Palestine, was a primary reason for her selection as the recipient of this award. At the time of the award presentation she had made a dozen trips to the middle east in less than 3 years time. Her goal is always to build relationships, make connections and promote in others a willingness to work for a better world by getting to know each other better. She serves as a Peace Ambassador for Kids to Israel and Palestine for the I Am Foundation, an organization that gifts transformational books and materials to children in crisis situations. Nola is actively involved with spiritually based peace organizations such as the Jerusalem Peacemakers that facilitate activities that work to bring Jews and Arabs together, when all that is around them seems to work to tear them apart. Nola is deeply committed to continue to travel to the middle east and do all she can to promote a deep healing of the discord there. “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy Nola with her friends - Azmi & Steve, in Jerusalem “Nothing on earth is more gentle and yielding than water, Yet nothing is stronger. When it confronts a wall of stone Gentleness overcomes hardness; The power of water prevails.” ~ Tao 78 As Mary Manin Morrissey said when she presented the award to Nola, "In every single way that I have known her I have seen her stand up, speak out and show up for peace." Nola is deeply honored to have been recognized by the Season for Nonviolence. For more information on their work, please visit the Association for Global New Thought website and click on Season for Nonviolence. Nola with her Balinese family at Temple Ceremony, Ulu Watu Temple Nola and Balinese boys at Cremation ceremony, Ubud Bali Back to top of page