ICIP Peace in Progress Award


ICIP Peace in Progress Award
The International Catalan Institute for Peace has been giving the ICIP Peace in Progress Award every year since 2011 to publicly recognise people, entities, or institutions that have worked and contributed prominently and extensively in promoting and constructing peace.The Peace in Progress Award consists of public recognition, a sculpture created by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, artist and activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, called Porta del Sol, and an economic endowment of 6,000 euros. The award ceremony occurs annually in an institutional ceremony at the Parliament of Catalonia.
Sl | Name | Country | Flag | Year | Awarded For |
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15 | Vicenç Fisas | France | 2024 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
14 | Women Victims of War | Bosania & Herzegovina | 2023 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
13 | Forgotten Children of War | Bosania & Herzegovina | 2023 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
12 | The Basque Country’s Associative Network | Spain | 2022 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
11 | Julienne Lusenge | Congo | 2021 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
10 | Coalition of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria | Algeria | 2019 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
9 | Cauce Ciudadano | Mexico | 2018 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
8 | Arcadi Oliveres | Spain | 2017 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
7 | Peace Brigades International | United States | 2016 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
6 | Joan Botam | United States | 2015 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
5 | WILPF | Switzerland | 2014 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
4 | Jovan Divjak | Bosania & Herzegovina | 2013 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
3 | Mothers of Soacha | Colombia | 2012 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
2 | Conscientious objectors and Insubmisos | Spain | 2011 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. | |
1 | Parliament of Catalonia | Spain | 2011 | for worked and contributed outstandingly and extensively to the promotion and construction of peace. |

ICIP Peace in Progress Award Laureates (2030 ~ 2021)

Vicenç Fisas
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2024
The ICIP Governing Board has honoured the researcher and activist Vicenç Fisas i Armengol with the ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2024 “for his extensive and sustained career in the field of research and activism for peace and human rights, and conflict mediation and analysis.” The nomination stood out from the twenty-odd applications received from around the world, from individuals or institutions dedicated to promoting peace.

Women Victims of War
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2023
The ICIP’s Governing Board has decided to confer the ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2023 to Women Victims of War “for their work denouncing rape as a weapon of war, fighting against impunity, and empowering and drawing attention to victims of sexual violence.”

Forgotten Children of War
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2023
The ICIP’s Governing Board has decided to confer the ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2023 to Forgotten Children of War “for their work denouncing rape as a weapon of war, fighting against impunity, and empowering and drawing attention to victims of sexual violence.”
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The Basque Country’s Associative Network
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2022
After evaluating the 23 valid candidacies received, the ICIP Board of Governors has decided to grant the ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2022 to all the civil society peace initiatives of the Basque Country “for their contribution to the advancement of peace, the end of political violence and the creation of new frameworks of coexistence and reconciliation.” These initiatives include several groups and NGOs, some of which have played a key role in advancing towards resolution of the conflict, such as the Permanent Social Forum and the now-dissolved Coordinadora Gesto por la Paz and Elkarri/Lokarri.

Julienne Lusenge
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2021
The ICIP Peace in Progress Award recognises the activist for human rights, peace and security in the Democratic Republic of Congo Julienne Lusenge, for her work on the “prevention and reduction of sexual and gender-based violence, and the strengthening women’s participation in peacebuilding” in the African country.

ICIP Peace in Progress Award Laureates (2020 ~ 2011)

Coalition of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2019
The Coalition of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria (CDFA) was created in Paris in May 1998 by a group of mothers of disappeared persons in Algeria in order to raise national and international awareness about the cases of enforced disappearances that took place during the Algerian Civil War in the 1990s. That same year the association organized a demonstration in front of the National Observatory of Human Rights in Algiers which, since then, has become a weekly event.

Cauce Ciudadano
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2018
Cauce Ciudadano is an organization founded in 2000 by young former gang members, with the goal of offering comprehensive support and opportunities to other teens that experience and/or generate violence in settings characterized by social exclusion and a strong presence of drug trafficking and criminal groups.The organization focuses on socio-educational and socio-community work in schools, public spaces, juvenile detention facilities and penitentiaries, with the aim of training young people as agents of social change. Since its inception, the organization has assisted 230,000 people and, in a country like Mexico, characterized by the war on drugs, Cauce Ciudadano has designed a model for the prevention of violence from a human rights perspective, with an emphasis on health promotion, attention to the damage caused and rehabilitation.
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Joan Botam
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2015
Catalan priest and Capuchin friar Joan Botam received the 2015 ICIP Peace in Progress Award at a ceremony that took place at the Parliament of Catalonia on April 12. Botam is a promoter of numerous initiatives linked to peace and ecumenism; he is one of the most important figures who introduced pacifism to Catalonia and a strong advocate of religion as a source of peace and dialogue.

WILPF
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2014
The 2014 ICIP Peace in Progress Award honors the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) “for its century-long involvement in the work of women for peace, as well as its commitment to disarmament, the defense of human rights and the persistence to obtain the recognition of the role of women in the building of peace.”

Jovan Divjak
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2013
The ICIP Governing Board decided to award the 2013 ICIP Constructors of Peace Prize to Jovan Divjak, “for his courage, as a military man, to disobey the commands of the Yugoslav People’s Army and defend Sarajevo during the siege of the Balkan War, and subsequently, for his long-standing civic work, with various initiatives in favour of the victims of war”.

Conscientious objectors and insubmisos
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2011
The ICIP Peace in Progress Award Prize 2011 recognized the collective of objectors and insubmisses of conscience of the compulsory military service “in representing a long and diverse struggle against conscription, which contributed to the deepening of democracy and to the spread of the values of the culture of peace, as well as popularizing, with the rejection of the use of weapons, conscientious objection, civil disobedience and the nonviolent resolution of conflicts”.

Parliament of Catalonia
ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2011
The Governing Board of ICIP granted an extraordinary edition of the 2011 ICIP Peace in Progress Award to the Parliament of Catalonia for “representing and symbolizing, as the finest example of the sovereignty emanating from the people of Catalonia, the continuity and legacy of the institutions, customs and practices of our ancestors, in which consensus, dialogue and peaceful resolution of disputes are deeply rooted.”