David was what the French call an “homme de lettres”. He lived to share his ideas, experimenting with expressing them in as many ways as he could. Much like Noam Chomsky, another noted anarchist-scholar, David made himself available to those outside of the academy and would speak almost everywhere he was invited. He would pour over his lecture notes, perfecting them, obsessively tinkering with words and sentences, writing virtually all the time. 
Anyone who knew David, who understood what motivated him, was aware that this dedication was not out of vanity. Rather, it was a project to change the world, as well as to change himself and others, through ideas. 
I believe his project has been quite a success; David did, indeed, make our world a slightly better place.
And after his death, this process must continue – especially today, when changing the world isn’t just a matter of ideological design but of ensuring the very survival of the planet and all of us who live on it.
 
Excerpt from Nika Dubrovsky, « David Graeber’s Archive Should Continue to Uphold the Ideas He Championed in Life », in Novara Media, 13 September 2021.  

AHC awarded to David Graeber for his intellectual anarchism dedicated to changing the world

Imad A. Barghouthi is a Professor of space plasma physics, faculty of science, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Jordan University, Amman, Jordan in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He graduated from Utah state university, Utah, USA in 1994, during hid Ph.D study, he worked on a funded project by NASA entitled “The effect of wave-particle interactions on ions outflow at high altitudes and latitudes”. Since 1989, Imad is working on modeling ions (H+, O+) outflow along open geomagnetic field lines (polar wind) at high altitudes and latitudes using Monte Carlo technique, after many years of working in this field he published many article that describe this ion outflow and in 2008 he published a model under his name, Barghouthi Model, since then he is using this model to explain different observations in different space regions (ionosphere, magnetosphere, aurora, …). In addition to this line of research, he’s interested in the interdisciplinary fields of scientific literacy, education and Islam and science.

​Barghouthi considered himself as a freedom fighter, he is an activist and always calling for liberation of his country Palestine from Israeli occupation. Because of that he has been arrested by Israeli forces’ three times, 2014, 2016, and 2020. Totally, he spent 20 months in Israeli prison under administrative detention. Recently, he has been arrested by Palestinian authority for one day and released on bail because of his activities in different aspects of Palestinian community, for example calling for national and presidential elections, action against corruption and bribery, …. Finally, freedom is great human value that deserves to be fought for.

AHC awarded to Imad Barghouthi for his defense of social engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Anikó Gregor, assistant professor at ELTE University, Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and an MA in Gender Studies. Between 2014 and 2020, as a program coordinator and later as a vice-program director, she worked on the first (and by far only) Hungarian-instructed Gender Studies MA program in Hungary at ELTE University. The program lasted for two cohorts, and altogether 15 students were allowed to graduate. The official accreditation of the program was withdrawn in a governmental decree in October 2018. The program was organized with the cooperation of three faculties of ELTE and with the participation of more than 15 colleagues researching various topics and fields related to gender inequalities in and outside Hungary. Their joint effort made it possible to run the program even in difficult times and in the crosshairs of harsh criticisms and unwelcomed political power games. This award shall be dedicated and go to everyone who took part in this mission, let they be students, lecturers, or many other colleagues in the field of Gender Studies outside ELTE who made a lot of efforts to keep this program running in the past and who are still working on passing on the knowledge to new generations about studying gender relations. 

AHC awarded to Anikó Gregor and the Hungarian gender studies community for their resistance against political pressure and attacks in Hungary

Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to interdisciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy.

Dr. Shiva combines the sharp intellectual enquiry with courageous activism. She is equally at ease working with peasants in rural India and teaching in Universities worldwide. Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental “hero” in 2003 and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia. Forbes magazine in November 2010 has identified Dr. Vandana Shiva as one of the top seven most Powerful Women on the Globe 

Dr. Shiva has contributed in fundamental ways to changing the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. Her books, The Violence of Green Revolution and Monocultures of the Mind have become basic challenges to the dominant paradigm of non-sustainable, reductionist Green Revolution Agriculture. Through her books Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest, Water Wars, Dr. Shiva has made visible the social, economic and ecological costs of corporate led globalization.

AHC awarded to Vandana Shiva for her intellectual and activist commitment for the environment

Ahmadreza Djalali, is a Swedish-Iranian physician, scientist, and specialist in disaster medicine. He has a PhD from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) and has completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Università del Piemonte Orientale (CRIMEDIM, Italy). Dr Djalali is a scholar and researcher at Belgium’s Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Italy’s Università del Piemonte Orientale, and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. He was invited by Iranian universities to attend a scientific program but was arrested on 24 April 2016 by the Iranian security forces. After his arrest, he had been held in solitary confinement for three months,  four months in partial isolation, under severe tortures, without permission to access a lawyer or to visit his family. Then he was sentenced to death on spurious espionage charges, following a grossly unfair trial based on a confession extracted under torture.

Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested for refusing to spy for the Iranian intelligence service, when, in 2014, the representatives of the intelligence service asked Djalali to spy on European countries for Iran, in particular, on “critical infrastructures, counter-terrorism and CBRNE [chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives] capabilities, sensitive operational plans, and also research projects, relevant to terrorism and crisis. 

He has spent most of his life in the subject of humanitarian issues, either to help people impacted by crisis, scientifically to extend edges of plan and methods to save people over crisis, and currently, he is detained, tortured and spent around 2000 day in Evin prison because of persistence on academic freedom and not cooperating with Iran’s intelligence service against European entities and people, which may have saved thousands of lives by now. Also, he didn’t accept cooperating with the entities who may use his specialists in the direction of terrorism against EU and even other states. We must continue to fight for his freedom and for justice.

AHC awarded to Ahmadreza Djalali for his fight for freedom against the Iranian authorities

Academics for Peace was founded in November 2012 to contribute to the Kurdish-Turkish peace process with a dialogical vision. AfP are also initiating signatories of the petition “We will not be a party to this crime!” which was published in January 2016. The petition was not only signed by 2000+ academics all over the globe, but also became a flagship for peace and conflict dialogue, women’s role in peace-making, transformative, critical, and open knowledge, and academic freedom.

AHC awarded to Academics for Peace for their commitment and their defense of academic freedom in Turkey

Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His interests focus on the Holocaust in Poland and, more specifically, on the relations between Jews and Poles during the war. Professor Grabowski’s book Hunt for the Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland has been awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for 2014. In 2020 Grabowski was appointed a Distinguished Fellow at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, Germany. In 2018 he co-authored and co-edited Dalej jest noc (a two-volume study on the fate of Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland), which will be published later this year in English. His most recent book (Na Posterunku. Udział Polskiej Policji Granatowej i kryminalnej w Zagładzie Żydów, Czarne Publishing House), has been published in Poland, in March 2020.

AHC awarded to Jan Grabowski for his defense of free research on the Holocaust in Poland