Seoul Peace Prize

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Seoul Peace Prize
Location Seoul
Established1990
Website http://www.spp.or.kr/   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Seoul Peace Prize was established in 1990 as a biennial recognition with monetary award to commemorate the success of the 24th Summer Olympic Games held in Seoul, South Korea, an event in which 160 nations from across the world took part, creating harmony and friendship. The Seoul Peace Prize was established to crystallize the wishes of the Korean people for peace in the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world. The nominating group, the Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation, consists of 500 Korean nationals and 800 internationals. The awardee receives a diploma, a plaque and honorarium of US$200,000.

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Past Seoul Peace Prize recipients have gone on to be nominated and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, including Médecins Sans Frontières (1996 SPP, 1999 NPP) and Bangladeshi Dr. Muhammad Yunus (2006 SPP, 2006 NPP), the founder of Grameen Bank which pioneered the concept of microcredit for supporting innovators in multiple developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and also inspired programs such as the Infolady Social Entrepreneurship Programme [1] [2] of Dnet (A Social Enterprise).

Recipients

YearRecipientCountry
1990 Juan Antonio Samaranch Flag of Spain.svg Spain
1992 George Shultz Flag of the United States.svg United States
1996 Médecins Sans Frontières Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
1998 Kofi Annan Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana
2000 Sadako Ogata Flag of Japan.svg Japan
2002 Oxfam Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
2004 Václav Havel Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
2006 Muhammad Yunus Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh
2008 Suzanne Scholte Flag of the United States.svg United States
2010 José Antonio Abreu Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela
2012 Ban Ki-moon Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
2014 Angela Merkel Flag of Germany.svg Germany
2016 Denis Mukwege Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo
2018 Narendra Modi Flag of India.svg India
2020 Thomas Bach Flag of Germany.svg Germany
2022 Tim Berners-Lee Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom

References

  1. "Internet rolls into Bangladesh villages on a bike". www.asafeworldforwomen.org.
  2. "Info Ladies – Riding Internet into Rural Bangladesh! | Amader Kotha". Archived from the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2014-05-22.