UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
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. It honored extraordinary activities for peace education in the spirit of the UNESCO constitution. The prize was phased out in 2013.
Recipients
- 1981: Helena Kekkonen / World Organization of the Scout Movement
- 1982: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- 1983: Pax Christi International
- 1984: IPPNW International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- 1985: Indar Jit Rikhye / Georg-Eckert-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung
- 1986: Paulo Freire
- 1987: Laurence Deonna / "Servicio Paz y Justicia en America Latina"
- 1988: Frère Roger, Taizé
- 1989: Robert Muller / International Peace Research Association
- 1990: Rigoberta Menchú Tum / World Order Models Project
- 1991: Ruth Leger Sivard / Cours Sainte Marie de Hann
- 1992: Mother Teresa
- 1993: Madeleine de Vits and at Kyung Hee University
- 1994: Prayudh Payutto
- 1995: Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
- 1996: Chiara Lubich
- 1997: Francois Giraud
- 1998: Educators for Peace and Mutual Understanding
- 1999: Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2000: Australian Peace Educator Toh Swee-Hin
- 2001: Jewish-Arab Centre for Peace Education in Givat Haviva and Bishop Nelson Onono Onweng, Uganda
- 2002: City Montessori School, Lucknow,
- 2003: Emile Shoufani, Greek-Catholic Archimandrite in Nazareth
- 2006: Christopher Gregory Weeramantry
- 2008: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation