The UNESCO Prize for Peace Education was awarded annually beginning 1981. The main goal of UNESCO education prize was to encourage excellent effort in the drive to reach a better quality education. The prize endowed up to US$60,000 and a statuette designed by spanish sculptor Apel·les Fenosa for UNESCO.[1] It honored extraordinary activities for peace education in the spirit of the UNESCO constitution. The prize was phased out in 2013.[2]
Recipients
edit- 1981: Helena Kekkonen (Finland) / World Organization of the Scout Movement
- 1982: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
- 1983: Pax Christi International
- 1984: IPPNW International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- 1985: Indar Jit Rikhye (India) / Georg-Eckert-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung (Germany)
- 1986: Paulo Freire (Brazil)
- 1987: Laurence Deonna (Switzerland) / "Servicio Paz y Justicia en America Latina"
- 1988: Frère Roger, Taizé (France)
- 1989: Robert Muller (France) / International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
- 1990: Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Guatemala) / World Order Models Project (WOMP)
- 1991: Ruth Leger Sivard (United States) / Cours Sainte Marie de Hann (Senegal)
- 1992: Mother Teresa
- 1993: Madeleine de Vits (Belgium) and Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University (South Korea)
- 1994: Prayudh Payutto (Thailand)
- 1995: Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Austria)
- 1996: Chiara Lubich (Italy)
- 1997: Francois Giraud (France)
- 1998: Educators for Peace and Mutual Understanding (Ukraine)
- Honourable mention: Fridtjof Nansen Academy (Norway), World Court Project (New Zealand), Ulpan Akiva Netanya (Israel)
- 1999: Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Honourable mention: Verein für Friedenspädagogik, Tübingen (Germany)
- 2000: Australian Peace Educator Toh Swee-Hin
- 2001: Jewish-Arab Centre for Peace Education in Givat Haviva (Israel) and Bishop Nelson Onono Onweng, Uganda
- 2002: City Montessori School, Lucknow, (India)
- 2003: Emile Shoufani, Greek-Catholic Archimandrite in Nazareth
- 2006: Christopher Gregory Weeramantry (Sri Lanka)
- Honourable mention: Fundación para la Reconciliación (Colombia)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ UNESCO Prize for Education. France: UNESCO. 2009. pp. 34, 53.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "UNESCO Prizes". unesdoc.unesco.org.
External links
edit- "UNESCO Prize for Peace Education". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2012.