John Prendergast (activist)
| John Prendergast | |
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| Born |
March 21, 1963 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
| Occupation | Author, Human Rights Activist |
| Notable awards |
Huffington Post 2011 Game Changer Award United Nations Correspondents Association Citizen of the World Award Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award Princeton University Crystal Tiger Award The Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution Peace Award |
Huffington Post 2011 Game Changer Award
United Nations Correspondents Association Citizen of the World Award
Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award
Princeton University Crystal Tiger Award
U.S. State Department Distinguished Service Award
John Prendergast (born March 21, 1963) is an American human rights activist, author, and former Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. He is the Founding Director of the Enough Project, a nonprofit human rights organization affiliated with the Center for American Progress. Prendergast is a board member and serves as Strategic Advisor to Not On Our Watch Project. He is a member of the faculty and Advisory Board of the International Peace and Security Institute (IPSI).
In the latter half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, Prendergast worked for a variety of organizations in the U.S. and Africa, focusing primarily on peace and human rights. At the end of 1996, he joined the National Security Council as Director for African Affairs and thereafter served as a special adviser to Susan Rice at the United States Department of State. As a special adviser, Prendergast was part of the facilitation team behind the successful two-and-a-half-year U.S. effort to broker an end to the Eritrean–Ethiopian War. Prendergast left government in 2001 to become Special Adviser to the President of the International Crisis Group on Africa issues, and in 2007, with Gayle Smith, he co-founded the Enough Project, housed at the Center for American Progress.
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