UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
The UNESCO Prize for Peace Education has been awarded annually since 1981. The main goal of UNESCO education prize is to encourage excellent effort in the drive to reach a better quality education. The prize is endowed up to US$60,000 and honours extraordinary activities for peace education in the spirit of the UNESCO constitution.
Recipients of the prize
- 2008: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (South Africa)
- 2006: Christopher Gregory Weeramantry (Sri Lanka)
- Honourable mention: Fundación para la Reconciliación (Colombia)
- 2003: Emile Shoufani, Greek-Catholic Archimandrite in Nazareth
- 2002: City Montessori School, Lucknow, (India)
- 2001: Jewish-Arab Centre for Peace Education in Givat Haviva (Israel) and Bishop Nelson Onono Onweng, Uganda
- 2000: Australian Peace Educator Toh Swee-Hin
- 1999: Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Honourable mention: Verein für Friedenspädagogik, Tübingen (Germany)
- 1998: Educators for Peace and Mutual Understanding (Ukraine)
- Honourable mention: Fridtjof Nansen Academy (Norway), World Court Project (New Zealand), Ulpan Akiva Netanya (Israel)
- 1997: Francois Giraud (France)
- 1996: Chiara Lubich (Italy)
- 1995: Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Austria)
- 1994: Prayudh Payutto (Thailand)
- 1993: Madeleine de Vits (Belgium) and Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University (South Korea)
- 1992: Mother Teresa
- 1991: Ruth Leger Sivard (United States) / Cours Sainte Marie de Hann (Senegal)
- 1990: Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Guatemala) / World Order Models Project (WOMP)
- 1989: Robert Muller (France) / International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
- 1988: Frère Roger, Taizé (France)
- 1987: Laurence Deonna (Switzerland) / "Servicio Paz y Justicia en America Latina"
- 1986: Paulo Freire (Brazil)
- 1985: Indar Jit Rikhye (India) / Georg-Eckert-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung (Germany)
- 1984: IPPNW International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- 1983: Pax Christi International
- 1982: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
- 1981: Helena Kekkonen (Finland) / World Organization of the Scout Movement
External links
- "UNESCO Prize for Peace Education". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2012.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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