Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize, formally the Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace, is awarded annually "in recognition of an individual’s or an organisation’s contribution for the advancement of the cause of peace". The prize was first launched in 2009 by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize Committee under the directive of the caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize is presented at the annual Peace Symposium, held here at one of Western Europe's largest mosques, the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London. The Prize is announced annually at the United Kingdom Annual Convention and is presented the following year at the National Peace Symposium held at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London. The Prize includes a monetary sum, which is normally set at 10,000 pounds sterling.
Sl | Name | Country | Flag | Year | Awarded For |
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15 | Adi Patricia Roche | Ireland | 2024 | For her tireless efforts in advocating for nuclear disarmament and supporting victims of the Chernobyl disaster | |
14 | David Spurdle | United Kingdom | 2023 | For their exceptional support to orphans and underprevilaged children around the world. | |
13 | Tadatoshi Akiba | Japan | 2022 | For his passionate activism for nuclear disarmament around the world | |
12 | Cheng Yen | Taiwan | 2021 | ||
11 | Barbara Hofmann | Switzerland | 2019 | For her outstanding humanitarian efforts in Mozambique from 1989 and onwards. | |
10 | Fred Mednick | United States | 2018 | In recognition of his efforts to provide unfettered access to education to some of the most neglected parts of the world | |
9 | Leonid Roshal | Russia | 2017 | For his remarkable services to children in war torn areas of the world | |
8 | Setsuko Thurlow | Japan | 2016 | For her excellent efforts to disarm nuclear weapons. | |
7 | Hadeel Qasim Hussein Al-Okbi | Iraq | 2015 | In recognition of her outstanding efforts for helping child refugees forced to flee areas such as Iraq due to conflict. | |
6 | Sindhutai Sapkal | India | 2014 | For she has devoted her entire life for orphans | |
5 | Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow | Scotland | 2013 | In recognition of his outstanding efforts to provide food and education to hundreds of thousands of children in the developing world | |
4 | Oheneba Boachie-Adjei | Ghana | 2012 | In recognition of his outstanding work in the promotion of peace through his life-changing medical work that has provided hope and a future for thousands of people in the developing world | |
3 | SOS Children's Villages | United Kingdom | 2011 | For its continued efforts to alleviating the suffering of orphaned and abandoned children around the world and towards fulfilling its vision of ‘a loving home for every child | |
2 | Abdus Sattar Edhi | Pakistan | 2010 | In recognition of his outstanding work for social welfare and humanitarian relief | |
1 | Lord Eric Avebury | United Kingdom | 2009 | For his continued efforts to promote human rights across the world |
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize Laureates (2030 ~ 2021)
Tadatoshi Akiba
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2022
Tadatoshi Akiba
Dr Akiba is the former Mayor of Hiroshima and strong activist for the abolition of nuclear weapons, for which he has received international recognition for his tireless work in that field. He has served on the board of advisors of the Global Security Institute, is a counsellor at the World Future Council and in 2012, was appointed as the chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative to work with influential middle power countries to bridge the political divide between nuclear weapons states and non-nuclear weapon states, thus advancing practical proposals for nuclear disarmament.
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Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize Laureates (2020 ~ 2011)
Barbara Hofmann
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2019
Barbara Hofmann
Barbara Hofmann founded ASEM Switzerland, a non-profit organisation providing education and poverty relief to children. Between 1995 and 2005, she founded ASEM branches in Portugal, New York, Italy, Canada and the USA to support the work. All this enables children of war to have hope and life, chances for a better future and her work has helped over 180,000 children so far.
Fred Mednick
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2018
Dr Fred Mednick
Dr Fred Mednick founded teachers without borders. The organisations mission is to connect teachers to information and each other in order to close the education divide, it is based upon the premise that teachers are community change agents and key catalysts of global development priorities.
Leonid Roshal
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2017
Dr Leonid Roshal
Dr Leonid Roshal is a distinguished paediatrician from Moscow, an expert for the World Health Organisation and the Chairman of an International charity fund to help children in disaster and wars. Dr Roshal has been leading the emergency surgery and children's trauma department of Moscow’s Paediatric Scientific Research Institute since 1981. In 2003 he took over Moscow’s institute of children’s emergency surgery which is currently treating sixty thousand children a year.
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Setsuko Thurlow
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2016
Mrs Setsuko Thurlow
Mrs Setsuko Thurlow - Mrs Setsuko Thurlow is a Hiroshima survivor and an inspiration for many in the international campaign for nuclear disarmament. Mrs Setsuko Thurlow was born in Japan and was just 13 years old in August 1945, when the devastating atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. What she experienced and saw was a life changing experience and having witnessed firsthand the horrors of death, suffering and destruction she devoted her life to campaign against nuclear weapons.
Hadeel Qasim Hussein Al-Okbi
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2015
Hadeel Qasim (Iraq)
Hadeel Qasim (Iraq) - Hadeel has made a tremendous difference to the lives of refugees, especially children who have been displaced as a result of conflicts. Hadeel was a refugee herself when her family fled to Syria when the Iraq war started in 2003. On returning to Iraq Hadeel decided to leave home and live in the dangerous and inhospitable refugee camps in extreme temperatures to serve in the field of child protection. Click here to read her address at the National Peace Symposium 2016.
Sindhutai Sapkal
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2014
Sindhutai Sapkal
Awarded for her inspirational work to look after orphans in India. A social worker and social activist known particularly for her work for raising orphan children. Is a ‘mother’ to over 1400 homeless children. She has helped them get an education, got them married and supported them to settle down in life. She treats them as her own and some of them are now lawyers, doctors and engineers.
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2013
Magnus-MacFarlane-Barrow
Magnus-MacFarlane-Barrow - Awarded for his outstanding work to promote education and to relieve poverty. Magnus founded the charity Mary’s Meals (formerly Scottish International Relief) that seeks to provide hungry children with one meal every school day.
Oheneba Boachie-Adjei
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2012
Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei
Awarded for his life-changing medical work to help children across the world, especially in Africa. FOCOS is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 by Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei. Its mission is to provide comprehensive, affordable orthopedic and spine care to underserved communities in Ghana and throughout West Africa.
SOS Children's Villages
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2011
SOS children's villages UK
Awarded for its humanitarian work with children across the world. SOS Children’s Villages has excelled in the field of service to humanity by working tirelessly to provide life-changing opportunity for tens of thousands of vulnerable children in some of the most difficult and challenging areas of the world.
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize Laureates (2010 ~ 2009)
Abdus Sattar Edhi
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2010
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Awarded for his life saving and development work in Pakistan and other countries. Mr Edhi founded an amazing organisationthat started by dispensing free medicine and then went on to develop a maternity home and emergency service, initially to serve Karachi but then to the whole of Pakistan and other countries.
Lord Eric Avebury
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize 2009
Lord Eric Avebury
Awarded for his long-standing service to the cause of peace, with particular focus on human rights. He founded the UK Parliament Human Rights Group in 1976, and was chair for twenty-one years. He remains active in protecting the rights of religious and ethnic minorities throughout the world. Wherever in the world he encounters injustice, persecution and inequality, he usually is the first to speak out.Read more.