UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
The UNESCO Prize for Peace Education has been awarded annually since 1981. The award is endowed with up to 60,000 US dollars and honors extraordinary activities as defined by the UNESCO constitution .
Award winners
- 1981: Helena Kekkonen ( Finland ) and the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
- 1982: Stockholm Institute for International Peace Research (SIPRI)
- 1983: Pax Christi International
- 1984: International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
- 1985: Major General Indar Jit Rikhye ( India ) and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research ( Germany )
- 1986: Professor Paulo Freire ( Brazil )
- 1987: Laurence Deonna ( Switzerland ) and Servicio Paz y Justicia en America Latina
- 1988: Brother Roger , Taizé ( France )
- 1989: Robert Muller ( France ) and International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
- 1990: Rigoberta Menchú Tum ( Guatemala ) and World Order Models Project (WOMP)
- 1991: Ruth Leger Sivard ( USA ) and Cours Sainte Marie de Hann ( Senegal )
- 1992: Mother Teresa
- 1993: Madeleine de Vits ( Belgium ) and The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies ( South Korea )
- 1994: The Venerable Prayudh Payutto ( Thailand )
- 1995: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ÖSFK) together with the European University Center for Peace Studies (EPU) ( Austria )
- 1996: Chiara Lubich ( Italy )
- 1997: Francois Giraud ( France )
- 1998: Educators for Peace and Mutual Understanding ( Ukraine ); Honorable Mention: Fridtjof Nansen Academy ( Norway ), World Court Project ( New Zealand ), Ulpan Akiva Netanya ( Israel )
- 1999: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo from Buenos Aires , Argentina ; honorable mention: Irene Drolet (Canada), Association for Peace Education from Tübingen , Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Don Bosco's Home (House) (Angola)
- 2000: the peace educator Toh Swee-Hin ( Australia ); Honorable Mention: Pierre Weil (France), Christiana Ayoka Mary Thorpe (Sierra Leone) and the Middle East Children Association (MECA)
- 2001: the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace Education in Givat Haviva ( Israel ) and the Bishop Nelson Onono Onweng ( Uganda ); Honorable Mention: Betty A. Reardon (USA)
- 2002: the Montessori school in Lucknow ( India )
- 2003: Emile Shoufani , Greek Catholic Archimandrite in Nazareth for Jewish-Arab encounters on the subject of the Holocaust ; Special Mention: Yolande Mukagasana ( Rwanda / Belgium )
- 2004 and 2005: not awarded
- 2006: Christopher Weeramantry , judge in Sri Lanka , for his life's work in favor of a culture of peace; special mention: Fundación para la Reconciliación ( Colombia )
- 2008: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation ( South Africa )
Web links
Commons : Winner of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize - collection of images, videos and audio files
- UNESCO Prize for Peace Education (English, French)
Individual evidence
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