Cora Weiss, President of Hague Appeal for Peace and International Peace Bureau, is the first recipient of the William Sloane Coffin Award for Peace and Justice offered by Yale Divinity School 2003. In 2004 she and Hans Blix received the prestigious Columbe D’Oro award from the Archivo Diarmo in Rome. Dedicated to the abolition of war, she leads a worldwide campaign based on the vision of a world where violent conflict is publicly acknowledged as illegitimate, illegal, and unjust.