Sunhak Peace Prize
| Sunhak Peace Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | An individual or organization that has significantly contributed to the peace of humankind. |
| Location | Seoul, Korea |
| Presented by | Sunhak Peace Prize Committee |
| First awarded | 2015 |
| Official website | Sunhak Peace Prize |
The Sunhak Peace Prize (선학평화상, 鮮鶴平和賞) annually awards individuals or organizations that contributed to the peace of our future generations, inheriting the will of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon to awaken respect and love for humanity, reconcile all conflicts undermining peace with love, and create a world where humanity and nature may coexist in beautiful harmony.
Purpose
The Sunhak Peace Prize was established at the proposal of Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon who wished to honor and inherit the peace ideology and will of her late husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who dedicated his life to a movement that transcends race, religion, and nation for the realization of his One Global Family peace ideology.
While currently existing peace prizes focus only on the peace of the present generation, the Sunhak Peace Prize will go a step further and extend its concept of peace to the future and strive for the "peace of the future generations". On the basis of Rev. Moon’s "One Global Family" peace ideology that "humanity is a familial community consisting of successive generations", the Sunhak Peace Prize acts on the basis of an expansive peace ideology that includes those living far into the future that we will never meet. This differentiates the Sunhak Peace Prize from existing peace prizes that have until now taken the symptomatic approach to realizing world peace and thus awarded individuals and organizations that have alleviated the destruction of peace that mainly takes place within the present generation.
The Sunhak Peace Prize pursues the three key banners of 'respect for human rights', 'conflict reconciliation', and 'ecological conservation'. For 'respect for human rights', our focus is on solving issues related to poverty relief, disease eradication, education and welfare; for 'conflict reconciliation' our focus is on solving issues related to conflict resolution, religious harmony, and unification of North and South Korea; and for 'ecological conservation' our focus is on solving issues related to climate change, biodiversity, and energy. The Sunhak Peace Prize will recognize the efforts of individuals and organizations for their peace works in relation to these three key banners, and serve to expand and spread the vision of peace.
Laureate Selection Process
The Secretariat's office sends out candidate nomination letters to the over 1,000 members of the Recommendation Committee worldwide, made up of internationally recognized individuals in their respective peace-related fields, who may then nominate 1 candidate each. Upon receiving the nominations, research is conducted on the achievements of each candidate, then reviewed through partial and full evaluation meetings, whereby the list of candidates is narrowed down to a few candidates, and recommended to the Sunhak Peace Prize Committee. Afterwards the Sunhak Peace Prize Committee goes through a rigorous screening process and selects the final laureate.
Awarded Items
The laureate is awarded with a certificate, a medal, and US 1 million dollars.
Past Recipients
- The first award ceremony will be held on August 28, 2015 at the Grand InterContinental Hotel Seoul Parnas Grand Ballroom.
Laureates
| Year | Laureates | Country | Reason for Selection | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Anote Tong | Kiribati | President Anote Tong improved global awareness of the severity of climate change and sought for action by the international community for its solution. | |
| Modadugu Vijay Gupta | India | Dr. M. V. Gupta pioneered the blue revolution and has invested his entire life to developing aquaculture as an alternative solution to the future food crisis. | ||