Hessian Peace Prize

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The Hessian Peace Prize is an award endowed with 25,000 euros. It has been awarded since 1994 to personalities who have made outstanding contributions to peace and international understanding. The award was launched on October 16, 1993 by the Albert Osswald Foundation of former Prime Minister Albert Osswald ( SPD ) and his family.

Board of Trustees

Members of the Hessian Peace Prize Board of Trustees are currently:

Award winners

  • 1994: Marianne Heiberg (Norway) for her mediation efforts between Israel and the PLO
  • 1995: John Hume (Great Britain / Northern Ireland) for his mediation efforts between the IRA and the UK government
  • 1996: Gregorio Rosa Chávez (El Salvador) for his mediation efforts between the guerrillas and the government in El Salvador
  • 1997: Hans Koschnick (Germany) for his mediation efforts as EU administrator in Mostar
  • 1998: Alexander Lebed (Russia) for his mediation efforts to end the first Chechen war
  • 1999: George J. Mitchell (United States) for his mediation efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict
  • 2000: Martti Ahtisaari (Finland) for his mediation to end the Kosovo war
  • 2001: Max van der Stoel (Netherlands) for his prevention policy, which contributed significantly to the peaceful resolution of the conflicts in Estonia and Latvia, Slovakia and Romania.
  • 2002: no award
  • 2003: Lakhdar Brahimi (Algeria, UN diplomat) for his achievements in the Afghan peace process
  • 2004: Hans Blix (Sweden) for his steadfastness in his work as head of the UN Disarmament Control Commission in Iraq
  • 2005: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (People's Republic of China / Tibet) for his commitment to a non-violent solution to the Tibet-China conflict
  • 2006: Daniel Barenboim (Argentina / Israel) for his efforts to achieve reconciliation between Israel and Palestine
  • 2007: Christian Schwarz-Schilling (Germany) for his efforts to end the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina .
  • 2008: Sam Nunn (United States) for his commitment to nuclear disarmament and against nuclear terrorism
  • 2009: Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Kenya) for her commitment to peace work
  • 2010: Ismail Khatib (Palestinian Territory) for organ donation to Israeli children by his son, who was killed by Israeli soldiers
  • 2011: Sadako Ogata (Japan), former UN diplomat and UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as one of the great peace architects of our time
  • 2012: Elisabeth Decrey Warner (Switzerland), President of Geneva Call , for the protection of civilians in armed conflict and for her vigorous struggle to ban landmines worldwide
  • 2013: Muhammad Ashafa and James Wuye (Nigeria), for their commitment to overcoming the violent conflicts between Christians and Muslims in their home country
  • 2014: Rubem César Fernandes (Brazil), for his commitment to promoting a culture of peace and preventing violence in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro as part of the non-governmental organization Viva Rio, which he founded in 1993
  • 2015: Ella Michailowna Polyakowa (Russia), for her work for soldiers and soldiers' mothers and for the rule of law treatment of Russian missions and the like. a. in Chechnya and Ukraine
  • 2016: Federica Mogherini (Italy, EU Foreign Affairs Representative), for her great commitment to peace in the Gulf region
  • 2017: Carla Del Ponte (Switzerland, UN chief prosecutor), for her indomitable struggle for peace through law
  • 2018: Şebnem Korur Fincancı (Turkey, human rights activist), for her great commitment to peace and the protection of human rights
  • 2019: Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia, Prime Minister), for ending the long and bloody conflict in his homeland

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hessenschau.de: Hessian Peace Prize 2016 goes to EU Foreign Affairs Representative in 2017, June 2, 2017, last call: June 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Hessian Peace Prize goes to Carla Del Ponte. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 29, 2018, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Hessian Peace Prize 2018
  4. ↑ Honor for a "bearer of hope" and "reformer"