LennonOno Grant for Peace

The LennonOno Grant for Peace is an award presented by artist and peace activist Yoko Ono. The grant, a sum of $50,000, has been awarded biennially to people and organisations chosen by Ono herself since 2002, in honour of Ono's late husband John Lennon.^[1]

Recipients

2002

• Zvi Goldstein^[2]
• Khalil Rabah^[2][3]

2004

• Mordechai Vanunu
• Seymour Hersh^[4]

2006

• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Médecins Sans Frontières^[5]

2008

• Iceland
• Vandana Shiva^[6]

2010

• Josh Fox
• Barbara Kowalcyk
• Michael Pollan
• Alice Walker^[1]

2012

• Lady Gaga
• Rachel Corrie (awarded posthumously)
• John Perkins
• Christopher Hitchens (awarded posthumously)
• Pussy Riot^[7][8]

2014

• Jann Wenner
• Jeremy Gilley
• Art Production Fund
• Jón Gnarr^[9]

2016 ^[10]

• Olafur Eliasson
• Sir Anish Kapoor
• Katalin Ladik
• Ai Weiwei

2018 ^{[11] [12]}

• Make the Road New York
• Wounded Warrior Fund at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center