Proactive Peacemaker Award

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 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.

Nola Drazdoff is honored for her outstanding contribution in creating a non-violent world.

The work that Nola has done 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.  Ultimately she made over 30 trips to the middle east to pursue her work as an informal peacemaker.

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 served 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 has been active 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 honored to have been recognized by the Season for Nonviolence. For more information on their work, please visit the Association for Global New Thought.