Ottawa hosted the inaugural Global Pluralism awards which celebrate the “remarkable achievements of individuals, organisations and governments tackling the challenge of living peacefully and productively with diversity”. The three winners of the Global Pluralism award chose to engage with diversity in a positive way ranged from fighting for over 20 years to bring peace to a community in Colombia, to mediating and brokering peace in multiple ethnic conflicts throughout Africa, to protecting the rights of asylum seekers held in offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea.