Göttingen Peace Prize

The Göttingen Peace Prize has been awarded since 1999 to promote conflict and peace research. The foundation was initiated by Roland Röhl , members of the foundation's board of trustees are the physicist Götz Neuneck , the Lord Mayor of Göttingen Rolf-Georg Köhler and the President of the Georg-August University of Göttingen Ulrike Beisiegel . The prize is awarded by a jury.

The prize is endowed with 3,000 euros. In contrast, the 2018 award winners, songwriter Konstantin Wecker and the journal Wissenschaft und Frieden each received 2,500 euros.

Award winners

1999: Dieter Senghaas
2000: IANUS group ( Egbert Kankeleit )
2001: Elisabeth Niemann
2002: Hans Küng
2003: Society for Threatened Peoples
2004: Benedikt Lindemann
2005: Forum Civil Peace Service
2006: International Gardens Göttingen and Interkultur Foundation
2007: Citizens' Initiative Freie Heide
2008: Egon Bahr
2009: Andreas Zumach
2010: Pro asylum
2011: Life without armaments and armaments exports section of the GKKE
2012: Wilhelm Heitmeyer
2013: Andreas Buro
2014: Institute for Peace Education Tübingen
2015: Irmela Mensah-Schramm
2016: Festival for Democracy and Tolerance, Jamel / Wismar and the free theater group “boat people projekt”, Göttingen
2017: Reporters Without Borders and Saiedet Souria
2018: Konstantin Wecker (could not appear for the award) and the editorial team of the journal Wissenschaft & Frieden
2019: Association of Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East (Köhler recommended that the award be suspended for the time being)
2020: AMICA Association, Freiburg

Web links

Website of the Göttingen Peace Prize

Individual evidence

^ Peace Prize for Konstantin Wecker . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich March 13, 2018 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed February 7, 2019] DPA).
↑ Greetings from Konstantin Wecker on the Göttingen Peace Prize In: hinter-den-schlagzeilen.de , March 14, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2019.
↑ Göttingen Peace Prize: Konstantin Wecker and “Science and Peace” win In: hna.de , March 11, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2019.
↑ Jüdische Allgemeine: Central Council of Jews protests against honor , February 14, 2019

[sz2018-1] Peace Prize for Konstantin Wecker . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich March 13, 2018 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed February 7, 2019] DPA).

[2] Greetings from Konstantin Wecker on the Göttingen Peace Prize In: hinter-den-schlagzeilen.de , March 14, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2019.

[3] Göttingen Peace Prize: Konstantin Wecker and “Science and Peace” win In: hna.de , March 11, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2019.

[4] Jüdische Allgemeine: Central Council of Jews protests against honor , February 14, 2019