U Thant Peace Award
The U Thant Peace Award was created by Sri Chinmoy's peace meditations at the United Nations, after U Thant's death.[1] First offered in 1982, the award is given to individuals and organizations who have exemplified the lofty spiritual ideals of the late United Nations Secretary-General U Thant and implemented those ideals in the tireless pursuit of world peace.[2]
Recipients
It had been bestowed by The Peace Meditation at the United Nations upon Mahathir Mohamad, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Kurt Waldheim the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Dada Vaswani, Swami Satchidananda and U Thant's daughter, Daw Aye Aye Thant.[3]
The U Thant Distinguished Lecture Series is a forum through which eminent thinkers and world leaders speak on the role of the United Nations in addressing the challenges facing the world's peoples and nations in the 21st century. The lecture series is co-organized by the United Nations University and the Science Council of Japan.
The UNU has a tradition of inviting world leaders and renowned individuals to Tokyo to explore the role of the United Nations in a rapidly changing world. The U Thant Distinguished Lecture Series builds upon this tradition by providing an opportunity for Nobel laureates and heads of state, current and former, to share their insights and experiences with scholars, policymakers, business leaders and the public.
On April 8, 2006, the Award was offered to Kofi Annan, who refused it. Similarly in 2007, Ban Ki-moon declined the Award.
Recipients of the U Thant Peace award
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Zenon Rossides | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| 1983 | Jorge Illueca | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| 1986 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Russell Barber | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1991 | Vilayat Khan | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Guido de Marco | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1993 | Ganesh Man Singh | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Siddhartha Shankar Ray | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1994 | James P. Grant | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Mother Teresa[1][2] | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev[1][2] | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1995 | Laxmi Mall Singhvi | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Rafael Hernández Colón | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Desmond Tutu | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1996 | Nelson Mandela[1][2] | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Robert Mugabe | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Maurice Strong | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1997 | Ananda Guruge | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Vladimir Petrovsky | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Carl Lewis | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 14th Dalai Lama | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Inder Kumar Gujral | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1998 | Dada Vaswani | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Pope John Paul II[1][2] | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Claiborne Pell | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1999 | Mahathir Mohamad[4] | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Girija Prasad Koirala | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Krishna Prasad Bhattarai | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Ted Turner | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Anwarul Karim Chowdhury | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 2000 | Svenn Kristiansen | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Humayun Rashid Choudhury | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Gary Ackerman | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Sivaya Subramuniyaswami[5] | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 2001 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee[2] | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| James Parks Morton | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 2002 | Satchidananda Saraswati[6] | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Daw Aye Aye Thant[7] | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Ravi Shankar[8] | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 2004 | Kurt Waldheim | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| 2007 | Ibrahim Gambari | Script error: No such module "flag". |
| Bill Pearl | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| Pascal Alan Nazareth | Script error: No such module "flag". |
References
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External links
- U Thant Peace Award at Sri Chinmoy.org
- Video: Award for Mother Teresa
- U Thant Peace Award at au.sri.chinmoy.life