Confucius Peace Prize
The Confucius Peace Prize ( Chinese 孔子 和平 獎 / 孔子 和平 奖 , Pinyin Kǒngzǐ hépíng jiǎng ) is an award named after the Chinese philosopher Kong Fu Zi , which is given in the People's Republic of China at the beginning of December . It is intended to honor people who promote peace and peaceful understanding between peoples .
background
Western observers associate the introduction of this prize with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo in 2010, which China strongly disapproved of . The Chinese Peace Prize is intended to counterbalance the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, which the Chinese government regards as “politically abused”. The Chinese government states that the award of the prize is intended to give the 1.3 billion Chinese "a greater voice on world peace".
Prize Committee
According to media reports, the Confucius Prize Committee consists of 16 Chinese personalities. Kong Qingdong (* 1964), a professor of Chinese literature and a direct descendant of Confucius in the 73rd generation, is one of the committee members .
List of award winners
| year | Award winners | country | Reason | annotation |
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| 2010 | Lien Chan |
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For his commitment to reconciliation between China and Taiwan. | According to his office, Lien Chan was unaware of the price and did not want to accept it in person. A girl accepted the award for him. Other candidates were Mahmud Abbas , Bill Gates , the Penchen Lama and Nelson Mandela . |
| 2011 | Wladimir Putin |
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The choice was based, among other things, on his opposition to the NATO operation in the civil war in Libya and his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999 . | Two Russian exchange students accepted the award in Putin's place. |
| 2012 | Kofi Annan and Yuan Longping |
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| 2013 | Yi Cheng |
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| 2014 | Fidel Castro |
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Because of significant contributions to world peace. | The award was presented on behalf of a Cuban exchange student. |
| 2015 | Robert Mugabe |
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Statesman, "who has overcome all kinds of difficulties and is strictly committed to building the political and economic order of his nation". | |
| 2016 | Shen Liangliang , Yang Shupeng and Li Lei |
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Peace soldiers who perished in operations in Mali or in South Sudan . | |
| 2017 | Hun Sen |
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Web links
- Jakat, Lena: The price war: Confucius versus Nobel , sueddeutsche.de, December 9, 2010
- A peace prize by Beijing's grace (NZZ)
- China creates peace prize to rival Nobel , animation on Youtube (chin., Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ China launches Confucius Peace Prize (Eng.)
- ↑ China to hand out its own peace prize (Engl.)
- ↑ a b NZZ Online - Confucius Peace Prize for Putin. Retrieved December 12, 2011 .
- ↑ China's Confucius peace prize has chaotic launch as winner's office says he was not notified , guardian.co.uk, December 9, 2010 (engl.)
- ↑ China Nobel row: Beijing turns up anti-Nobel rhetoric (Engl.)
- ↑ Chinese counter-prizes with puzzles ( memento from December 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de, December 9, 2010
- ↑ The New York Times : For Putin, a Peace Prize for a Decision to Go to War , November 15, 2011.
- ↑ China awards Fidel Castro with the Confucius Peace Prize: Cuba's ex-president not present at the award ceremony , welt.de of December 11, 2014
- ↑ www.20min.ch: Mugabe receives an award