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Father Peter Dougherty of Lansing’s Michigan Peace Team is on his way to India to pick up an international peace award for his lifetime of efforts in the cause of peace.
Dougherty, who was featured in the recent Michael Moore film “Capitalism: A Love Story,” leaves next week to receive the International Award for Contributions to the Promotion of Ghandian Values from the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation. While in India, he will tour the country and use it as a chance to “network” with groups working towards peace in that country.
The priest started his calling in peace work at the height of the Vietnam War protest era, where he said he was confronted with the cycle of violence. He has since run a special ministry dedicated to peace work including the development and launching of MPT. MPT regularly sends teams to Palestine and Isreal to work for peace in the region. It will dispatch a team to Juarez, Mexico in Nov. to explore the possibility of intervening there.
Dougherty is being honored, in part, for his work with MPT, but also for the role he played in the creation of the Nonviolent Peaceforce, an international organization founded on the Ghandi principal of Shanti Sena, or Peace Army. The irony is that Dougherty was to travel to India for the group’s first meeting, but the Indian government refused to grant him a visa because of his history of protests and arrests.
While Dougherty says the award is an “honor,” he said, “I wish everybody could get their peace award.”
Aside from a trip to India, the award comes with a trophy and a check for approximately $10,000. He will receive the award Nov. 6.
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