About Ali Abu Awwad and Ami Dar:
Nonviolence activist Ali Abu Awwad works to establish international peacebuilding movements. In 2016, he brought his focus to building a national nonviolent movement of Palestinian people, cofounding the Taghyeer Movement, which means “change” in Arabic. He received the 2023 Luxembourg Peace Prize.
Ami Dar is the founder and executive director of Idealist.org, an organization that helps millions around the world to work or volunteer for causes they believe in. Dar was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Peru and Mexico and returned to Israel when he was 15. After witnessing social injustice growing up in Mexico and being drafted into compulsory military service in Israel, he started Idealist.org as a way to bring people together across our differences.
