The World Peace Council (WPC), a pro-Soviet non-governmental organization, has awarded a number of prizes, beginning in 1950. [1] These have been awarded to individuals, organisations, peoples, and places. Typically, several winners would be voted at one WPC congress; these, or their representative, would receive their prize at a later congress, or from a WPC delegation. Extra prizes were awarded in 1959 and 1964, to mark the WPC's 10th and 15th anniversaries. [1]
The awards include:
The WPC was allied with the Soviet Union and followed its foreign policy line during the Cold War. Some recipients of its prizes have also won the Lenin Peace Prize, a separate prize awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government.
Date | Awardee | Type | Country | Award | Notes | Refs |
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1950 | Julius Fučík | Person | Czechoslovakia | Honorary International Peace Prize | Posthumous. | [1] |
1950 | Pablo Picasso | Person | Spain | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1950 | Pablo Neruda | Person | Chile | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1950 | Paul Robeson | Person | United States | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1950 | Nâzım Hikmet | Person | Turkey | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1950 | Wanda Jakubowska | Person | Poland | International Peace Prize | For her 1948 film Ostatni etap ("The Last Stage") | [1] [5] |
1950 | Candido Portinari | Person | Brazil | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1950 | Jean-Richard Bloch | Person | France | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1950 | Mihail Sadoveanu | Person | Romania | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1950 | Renato Guttuso | Person | Italy | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1950 | Václav Dobiaš | Person | Czechoslovakia | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1950 | Louis Daquin | Person | France | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1950 | Al-Tariq | Work | Lebanon | Gold Medal | Journal. | [1] |
1950 | Iunost' mira (Юность мира, "Youth of the World") | Work | Soviet Union / Hungary | Gold Medal | Documentary about the 1949 World Youth Festival in Budapest. | [1] [6] |
1950 | Warsaw | Place | Poland | Honorary International Peace Prize | An exceptional award to the city as "a symbol of peaceful restoration". | [1] |
1953 | Nikola Vaptsarov | Person | Bulgaria | Honorary International Peace Prize | Posthumous award. | [1] |
1953 | Leopoldo Méndez | Person | Mexico | International Peace Prize | Member of the Comite por la Paz Mexicano | [1] [7] |
1953 | Mulk Raj Anand | Person | India | International Peace Prize | [1] [8] [9] | |
1953 | W.E.B. Du Bois | Person | United States | International Peace Prize | Won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959. | [1] [10] |
1953 | Paul Éluard | Person | France | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1953 | Halldór Laxness | Person | Iceland | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1953 | Martin Hellberg | Person | Germany DR | International Peace Prize | For directing Das verurteilte Dorf ("The condemned village"). | [1] [11] |
1953 | Kurt Stern | Person | Germany DR | International Peace Prize | For co-writing Das verurteilte Dorf ("The condemned village"). | [1] [11] |
1953 | Jeanne Stern | Person | Germany DR | International Peace Prize | For co-writing Das verurteilte Dorf ("The condemned village"). | [1] [11] |
1953 | Jean Effel | Person | France | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1953 | Vítězslav Nezval | Person | Czechoslovakia | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1953 | James Aldridge | Person | Australia | Gold Medal | For his novel The Diplomat . | [1] [12] |
1953 | Cláudio Santoro | Person | Brazil | Gold Medal | For his orchestral work Canto de Amor e Paz. | [1] |
1953 | Maria Rosa Oliver | Person | Argentina | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1953 | Toshiko Akamatsu | Person | Japan | Gold Medal | For Hiroshima panels | [1] |
1953 | Iri Maruki | Person | Japan | Gold Medal | For Hiroshima panels | [1] |
1953 | Bozorg Alavi | Person | Iran | Gold Medal | [1] [13] | |
1953 | Jean Salandre | Person | France | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1953 | S. Csorvás | Person | Romania | Gold Medal | For sculpture "Korean partisans" | [1] |
1953 | Carlos Augusto León | Person | Venezuela | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1953 | Luis Carlos Pérez | Person | Colombia | Gold Medal | [1] | |
1953 | Wäinö Aaltonen | Person | Finland | Gold Medal | For statue entitled "Peace". | [1] [14] |
1954 | Charlie Chaplin | Person | United Kingdom | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1954 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Person | Soviet Union | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1955 | Béla Bartók | Person | Hungary | Honorary International Peace Prize | Posthumous award | [1] [15] |
1955 | Édouard Herriot | Person | France | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1955 | Joris Ivens | Person | Netherlands | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1955 | Cesare Zavattini | Person | Italy | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1955 | Josué de Castro | Person | Brazil | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1956 | Irène Joliot-Curie | Person | France | Honorary International Peace Prize | Posthumous award | [1] |
1956 | William Howard Melish | Person | United States | International Peace Prize | [1] [16] | |
1956 | Qi Baishi | Person | China PR | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1956 | Nikos Kazantzakis | Person | Greece | International Peace Prize | [1] | |
1957 | Bertrand Russell | Person | United Kingdom | International Peace Prize | Refused award. | [17] |
1957 | Guo Moruo | Person | China PR | Joliot-Curie medal | [18] | |
1959 | Manolis Glezos | Person | Greece | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [1] [19] | |
1959 | Tristao de Braganza Cunha | Person | Goa | Gold medal | Posthumous award | [20] |
1959 | Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation | Organisation | International | Gold medal | [1] | |
1959 | Mouvement de la Paix | Organisation | France | Gold medal | [1] | |
1959 | Czechoslovak Peace Committee | Organisation | Czechoslovakia | Gold medal | [1] | |
1959 | Boris Polevoy | Person | Soviet Union | Gold medal | [1] | |
1959 | Zaharia Stancu | Person | Romania | Gold medal | [1] | |
1959 | George Hanna | Person | Lebanon | Gold medal | [1] | |
1959 | Olga Poblete de Espinosa | Person | Chile | Gold medal | [1] | |
1959 | Eva Sanderson | Person | Canada | Gold medal | [1] | |
1959 | Alexei Adzhubei | Person | Soviet Union | silver medal | [21] | |
1959 | Yevgeny Zhukov | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | [22] | |
1959 | Konstantin Fedin | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | [23] | |
1959 | Trofim Lysenko | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | [24] | |
? | Aleksandr V. Topchiev | Person | Soviet Union | Silver medal | [25] | |
1959 | Katharine Susannah Prichard | Person | Australia | Medal | [26] | |
1959 | Igor Kurchatov | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | [27] | |
1959 | Bill Morrow | Person | Australia | Joliot-Curie silver medal | [28] | |
1959 | R. K. Aggarwal | Person | India | Joliot-Curie silver medal | [29] | |
1959 | Pyotr Kapitsa | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | [30] | |
1959 | Juan Marinello Vidaurreta | Person | Cuba | Joliot-Curie silver medal | [31] | |
1960 | Ferdinando Targetti | Person | Italy | Gold medal | [1] | |
1960 | Walter Diehl | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | [1] | |
1960 | Edith Höreth-Menge | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | [1] | |
1960 | Erwin Eckert | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | [1] | |
1960 | Gerhard Wohlrath | Person | Germany FR | Jubilee Silver medal | [1] | |
1960 | Gustav Tiefes | Person | Germany FR | Jubilee Silver medal | [1] | |
1960 | Johannes Oberhof | Person | Germany FR | Jubilee Silver medal | [1] | |
1960 | Erich Kompalla | Person | Germany FR | Jubilee Silver medal | [1] | |
1960 | Nikita Khrushchev | Person | Soviet Union | Medal | [32] | |
1961 | Ilya Ehrenburg | Person | Soviet Union | Gold medal | Marking his 70th birthday. | [1] |
1961 | Eugénie Cotton | Person | France | Gold medal | Marking her 80th birthday. | [1] |
1961 | World Federation of Democratic Youth | Organisation | International | Gold medal | [1] | |
? | Political prisoners in Francoist Spain | Persons | Spain | Gold medal | [33] | |
? | Nicolai Gribachov | Person | Soviet Union | Grand Silver medal | [34] | |
? | Dmitri Skobeltsyn | Person | Soviet Union | Medal | [35] | |
? | Lazaro Cardenas | Person | Mexico | Joliot-Curie medal | [36] | |
1963 | Manolis Glezos | Person | Greece | Gold medal | [1] | |
1963 | Gregoris Lambrakis | Person | Greece | Gold medal | Posthumous award | [1] |
1963 | Jaramogi Oginga Odinga | Person | Kenya | Gold medal | [37] | |
1964 | Julián Grimau | Person | Spain | Gold medal | Posthumous award. | [1] |
1964 | Tawfiq Munir | Person | Iraq | Gold medal | Posthumous award. | [1] |
1964 | Ahmed Boumendjel | Person | Algeria | Gold medal | Posthumous award. | [1] |
1964 | Árpád Szakasits | Person | Hungary | Gold medal | Marking his 75th birthday. | [1] |
1964 | Ferdinando Targetti | Person | Italy | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Walter Friedrich | Person | Germany DR | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Alfred Weber | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Wilhelm Elfes | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Hewlett Johnson | Person | United Kingdom | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Stanisław Kulczyński | Person | Poland | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Yiangos Potamitis | Person | Cyprus | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Alberto T. Casella | Person | Argentina | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | José R. Gabaldón | Person | Venezuela | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Jean Boulier | Person | France | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Wanda Wasilewska | Person | Soviet Union / Poland | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Viktor Chkhikvadze | Person | Soviet Union | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Mikhail Kotov | Person | Soviet Union | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Hiroshima | Place | Japan | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Nagasaki | Place | Japan | Gold medal | [1] | |
1964 | Nelson Mandela | Person | South Africa | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [38] | |
1964 | Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz | Person | Poland | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [39] | |
1965 | Khaled Mohi El Din | Person | Egypt | Gold medal | [1] | |
1965 | Shafi Ahmed el Sheikh | Person | Sudan | Gold medal | [1] | |
1965 | Francis John Hartley | Person | Australia | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [40] | |
1965 | Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop | Person | Australia | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [41] | |
1966 | Valentina Tereshkova | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [42] | |
1966 | Agostinho Neto | Person | Angola | Joliot-Curie medal | [43] [44] | |
1966 | Juan Marinello Vidaurreta | Person | Cuba | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [31] [45] | |
1968 | Pablo Neruda | Person | Chile | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [46] | |
1969 | György Lukács | Person | Hungary | Joliot-Curie medal | [47] | |
1969 | Dondogiyn Tsevegmid | Person | Mongolia | Joliot-Curie medal | [48] | |
1969 | Denis Nowell Pritt | Person | United Kingdom | Joliot-Curie medal | [49] | |
1969 | Hugo Pesce | Person | Peru | Joliot-Curie medal | Posthumous award. | [50] |
1970 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Person | India | Joliot-Curie medal | Posthumous award. | [51] |
1971 | Martin Luther King Jr. | Person | United States | Joliot-Curie gold medal | Posthumous award, accepted by Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. | [52] |
1971 | Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum | Organisation | Poland | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [53] | |
1972 | Amílcar Cabral | Person | Guinea-Bissau / Cape Verde | Joliot-Curie medal | [4] | |
1972 | Fidel Castro | Person | Cuba | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [54] | |
1972 | Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal | Person | Mongolia | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [55] [56] | |
1972 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Person | Egypt | Joliot-Curie medal | Posthumous award. | [57] |
1972 | Salvador Allende | Person | Chile | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [54] | |
1972 | Coalition for Peace and Justice | Organisation | United States | Joliot-Curie medal | [57] | |
1972 | Organization of African Unity | Organisation | International | Joliot-Curie medal | [57] | |
1972 | "the people of Lao fighting for independence and freedom" | Place | Laos | Joliot-Curie medal | [57] | |
1973 | Raymond Goor | Person | Belgium | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [59] | |
1973 | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Person | Bangladesh | Joliot-Curie gold medal | For his contribution to the establishment of world peace. | [60] |
1974 | Edward Gierek | Person | Poland | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [61] | |
1975 | Urho Kekkonen | Person | Finland | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [62] | |
1975 | Yasser Arafat | Person | Palestine | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [62] [63] | |
1975 | Makarios III | Person | Cyprus | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [62] | |
1975 | Government of North Vietnam | Organisation | Vietnam DR | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [62] | |
1975 | Government of South Vietnam | Organisation | Vietnam Rep | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [62] | |
1975 | United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid | Organisation | International | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [62] [64] | |
1975 | United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation | Organisation | International | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [62] [64] | |
1975 | Leonid Brezhnev | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie gold medal | Considered a riposte to Andrei Sakharov's 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. | [65] |
1976 | Samora Machel | Person | Mozambique | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [66] | |
1977 | Vietnam | Place | Vietnam | Joliot-Curie medal | Presented to Nguyễn Hữu Thọ. The Vietnamese government had earlier awarded the WPC its Friendship Order. | [67] [68] [69] |
1977 | World Marxist Review | Work | Czechoslovakia | [70] | ||
1977 | Nicolae Ceauşescu | Person | Romania | Joliot-Curie medal | The award was delayed by Soviet objections, but pushed through by Indira Gandhi. | [71] |
1978 | Mengistu Haile Mariam | Person | Ethiopia | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [72] [73] | |
1979 | Laos President Souphanouvong | Person | Laos | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [74] | |
1979 | Michael Manley | Person | Jamaica | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [74] | |
1980 | Heng Samrin | Person | Kampuchea | Joliot-Curie medal | [75] | |
1980 | Yasser Arafat | Person | Palestine | Ho Chi Minh award | [76] | |
1980 | Federico Sotolongo Guerra | Person | Cuba | Medal | [77] | |
1981 | Sandinista National Liberation Front | Organisation | Nicaragua | Ho Chi Minh award | [78] | |
1981 | Líber Seregni | Person | Uruguay | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [79] | |
1983 | Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy | Person | India | Joliot-Curie gold medal | Director of the UN Centre against Apartheid | [64] |
1983 | Yusuf Maitama Sule | Person | Nigeria | Joliot-Curie gold medal | Chairman of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid | [64] |
1985 | James E. Jackson | Person | United States | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [80] | |
1986 | African National Congress | Organisation | South Africa | Ho Chi Minh award | Accepted by Oliver Tambo. | [81] |
1986 | Sam Nujoma | Person | Namibia | Ho Chi Minh award | [82] | |
1986 | Bratislava | Place | Czechoslovakia | Town of Peace | [83] | |
1988 | Julius Nyerere | Person | Tanzania | Joliot-Curie medal | [84] | |
1988 | Pimen I of Moscow | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [85] | |
1989 | Daniel Ortega | Person | Nicaragua | Joliot-Curie gold medal | [86] | |
? | P. J. Patterson | Person | Jamaica | Joliot-Curie medal | [87] |
In 2002, the WPC denied news reports that it had given a prize to Meles Zenawi. [88]
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He was awarded ... the silver medal of the World Peace Council.
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