Jackson Browne Receives 2018 Gandhi Peace Award for a Lifetime of Activism

Jackson Browne, the first performing artist to receive the award, joins previous recipients Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Benjamin Spock, Linus Pauling and Cesar Chavez, among others. The award, given by the New Haven based group Promoting Enduring Peace since 1960, invited Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to introduce Browne in a ceremony recorded at Southern Connecticut State University on September 14, 2018.

Jackson Browne accepts the Gandhi Peace Award from Promoting Enduring Peace at the Lyman Center for Performing Arts at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven on September 14, 2018.

Jackson Browne, Acceptance speech by singer songwriter, recipient of the 2018 Gandhi Peace award for his lifetime of activism, produced by Scott Harris

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