2000-2001

K. Anthony Appiah
Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University; Co-author, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award); Author, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (winner of the Herskovits Prize); Co-Editor, The Dictionary of Global Culture and Perseus Africana Encyclopedia (forthcoming); Co- Editor, Transition Magazine; Former President, Society for African Philosophy in North America; Associate Director, Black Periodical Literature Project; Board Member, W.E. DuBois Institute.

For your imaginative and inspired scholarship; for your vision of a passionate and inclusive democracy; and for fulfilling the crucial role of public philosopher in the essential discourse on race, justice, and principled citizenship

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Clinical Psychologist; Member of the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Coordinator and Chair of the Western Cape Public Hearings, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa; Author, And the Brokenhearted Shall be Healers (forthcoming) and "Healing the Racial Divide? Personal Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission"; Former Expert Witness Consultant for human rights, Supreme Court of South Africa; Fellow, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School.

For your courage in confronting the legacies and traumas of racial hatred and ethnic violence, for your sensitivity that has helped heal both individual and societal wounds, and for your commitment to a multiracial society

Richard J. Goldstone
Justice, Constitutional Court, South Africa; Chair, International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo; Board Chair, Human Rights Institute of South Africa; National President, National Institute of Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders; Former Chief Prosecutor, International Tribunal for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia; Former Chair, Goldstone Commission of Inquiry Regarding the prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation in South Africa, Author, For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator; Recipient, International Human Rights Award, American Bar Association.

For your extraordinary courage, sensitivity and striking independence as a global political insider and judicial trailblazer who has investigated and prosecuted racial and ethnic violence and international war crimes and for your invaluable contributions to South Africa's transition from repression to democracy