Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award
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Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award
The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino: Gawad Ramon Magsaysay) is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government. It is often called the "Nobel Prize of Asia".
Sl | Name | Country | Flag | Year | Awarded For |
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47 | Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif | Indonesia | 2008 | "for guiding Muslims to embrace tolerance and pluralism as the basis for justice and harmony in Indonesia and in the world at large." | |
46 | Tang Xiyang | China | 2007 | "for guiding China to meet its mounting environmental crisis by heeding the lessons of its global neighbors and the timeless wisdom of nature itself." | |
45 | Sanduk Ruit | Nepal | 2006 | "for placing Nepal at the forefront of developing safe, effective, and economical procedures for cataract surgery, enabling the needlessly blind in even poorest countries to see again." | |
44 | Laxminarayan Ramdas | India | 2004 | "for reaching across a hostile border to nurture a citizen-based consensus for peace between Pakistan and India." | |
43 | Ibn Abdur Rehman | Pakistan | 2004 | "for reaching across a hostile border to nurture a citizen-based consensus for peace between Pakistan and India." | |
42 | Seiei Toyama | Japan | 2003 | "for his twenty-year crusade to green the deserts of China in a spirit of solidarity and peace." | |
41 | Tetsu Nakamura | Japan | 2003 | "for his passionate commitment to ease the pain of war, disease, and calamity among refugees and the mountain poor of the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands." | |
40 | Pomnyun Sunim | South Korea | 2002 | "for his compassionate attention to the human cost of Korea's bitter division and his hopeful appeal for reconciliation." | |
39 | Ikuo Hirayama | Japan | 2001 | "for his efforts to promote peace and international cooperation by fostering a common bond of stewardship for the world's cultural treasures." | |
38 | Jockin Arputham | India | 2000 | "for extending the lessons of community building in India to Southeast Asia and Africa and helping the urban poor of two continents improve their lives by learning from one another." | |
37 | Corazon Aquino | Philippines | 1998 | "for giving radiant moral force to the nonviolent movement for democracy in the Philippines and in the world." | |
36 | Sadako Ogata | Japan | 1997 | "for invoking the moral authority of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to insist that behind the right of every refugee to asylum lies the greater right of every person to remain at home in peace." | |
35 | Toshihiro Takami | Japan | 1996 | "for enlisting community leaders from fifty countries in the common cause of secure, sustainable, and equitable livelihoods for the world's rural people." | |
34 | Asian Institute of Management (AIM) | Philippines | 1995 | "for setting regionwide standards for excellence and relevance in training Asians to manage Asia's business and development." | |
33 | Eduardo Jorge Anzorena | Argentina | 1994 | "for fostering a collaborative search for humane and practical solutions to the housing crisis among Asia’s urban poor." | |
32 | Noboru Iwamura | Japan | 1993 | "for heeding the call of the true physician in a lifetime of service to Japan's Asia neighbors." | |
31 | Washington SyCip | Philippines | 1992 | "for fostering economic growth and mutual understanding in Asia through professionalism, public-spirited enterprise, and his own esteemed example." | |
30 | Press Foundation of Asia | Philippines | 1991 | "for guiding Asia's press to look beyond national borders and speak intelligently to complex issues of regional change and development. | |
29 | Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) | Thailand | 1989 | "for shaping a new generation of engineers and managers committed to Asia in an atmosphere of academic excellence and regional camaraderie." | |
28 | The Royal Project | Thailand | 1988 | "for its concerted national and international effort to curtail opium growing by bringing worthy livelihoods to Thailand’s hill tribes." | |
27 | Richard William Timm, C.S.C. | United States | 1987 | "for his 35 years of sustained commitment of mind and heart to helping Bangladeshis build their national life." | |
26 | International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) | Philippines | 1986 | "for its training of agrarian development workers from four continents, enabling them to share experience and ideas for more effective progress." | |
25 | Harold Ray Watson | United States | 1985 | "for encouraging international utilization of the Sloping Agricultural Lang Technology created by him and his coworkers to help the poorest of small tropical farmers." | |
24 | Jiro Kawakita | Japan | 1984 | "for winning the participating of remote Nepalese villagers in researching their problems, resulting in practical benefits of potable water supplies and rapid ropeway transport across mountain gorges." | |
23 | Aloysius Schwartz | United States | 1983 | "for mobilizing European and American support to succor acutely deprived Korean youngsters, homeless elderly and infirm." | |
22 | Augustine Joung Kang | South Korea | 1981 | "for his practical democracy and use of regional cooperation to foster economically and humanly sound credit unions." | |
21 | Shigeharu Matsumoto | Japan | 1980 | "for building constructive relations between Japanese and others through shared knowledge of their diverse histories, needs and national aspirations." | |
20 | Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) | Indonesia | 1979 | "for its supplanting national jealousies that led to confrontation, with increasingly effective cooperation, goodwill among the neighboring peoples of Southeast Asia." | |
19 | Soedjatmoko Mangoendiningrat | Indonesia | 1978 | "for his persuasive presentation of the case for developing Asia's basic needs in the councils of world decision making." | |
18 | College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los Baños (UPLB) | Philippines | 1977 | "for its quality of teaching and research, fostering a sharing of knowledge in modernizing Southeast Asian agriculture." | |
17 | Henning Holck-Larsen | Denmark | 1976 | "for his signal contribution towards India's technical modernization, complementing industrialization with human concern." | |
16 | Patrick James McGlinchey, S.S.C.M.E. | Ireland | 1975 | "for mobilizing international support and foreign volunteers to modernize livestock farming in his adopted country." | |
15 | William Masterson, S.J. | United States | 1974 | "for his multinational education and inspiration of rural leaders prompting their return to and love of the land." | |
14 | Summer Institute of Linguistics | United States | 1973 | "for its inspired outreach to non-literate tribespeople, recording and teaching them to read their own languages and enhancing their participation in the larger community of man." | |
13 | No Award | 1972 | |||
12 | Sabur? ?kita | Japan | 1971 | "for his sustained and forceful advocacy of genuine Japanese partnership in the economic progress of her Asian neighbors." | |
11 | International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) | United States | 1969 | "for its seven years of innovative, interdisciplinary teamwork by Asian and Western scientists, unprecedented in scope, that is achieving radical, rapid advances in rice culture." | |
10 | Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere (CARE) | United States | 1968 | "for its constructive humanitarianism, fostering dignity among the needy in Asia and on three other continents for over 22 years." | |
9 | Shiroshi Nasu | Japan | 1967 | "for his practical humanitarianism, enhancing cooperation in agriculture by learning through multinational experience." | |
8 | Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong Basin and Cooperating Entities | Cambodia | 1966 | "for its purposeful progress toward harnessing one of Asia's greatest river systems, setting aside divisive national interests in deference to regional opportunities." | |
7 | Bayanihan Folk Arts Center | Philippines | 1965 | "for their projection of a warm and artistic portrayal of the Filipino people to audiences on five continents." | |
6 | Welthy Honsinger Fisher | United States | 1964 | "for her unstinting personal commitment to the cause of literacy in India and other Asian countries whose teachers have sought her guidance." | |
5 | Peace Corps in Asia | United States | 1963 | "in recognition of the Peace Corps Volunteers serving in the Near East, Africa and Latin America." | |
4 | Mother Teresa, M.C. | Albania | 1962 | "for her merciful cognizance of the abject poor of a foreign land, in whose service she has led a new congregation." | |
3 | Genevieve Caulfield | United States | 1961 | "for her international citizenship and guidance to full and useful lives of those in other lands afflicted like herself." | |
2 | Y.C. James Yen | Taiwan | 1960 | "for his continuing concern for the whole man and molding his social institutions, rather than simply refashioning the physical environment." | |
1 | Operation Brotherhood | Philippines | 1958 | "in acknowledgement of the spirit of service to other peoples in a time of need, with which it was conceived and has been carried forward, as well as the international amity it has fostered." |
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Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award Laureates (2010 ~ 1991)
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Harold Ray Watson
Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award 1985
Watson, Harold Ray
PHILIPPINES
An American Baptist minister who restored productivity to abandoned mountainsides and other wasteland using SALT, or Sloping Agricultural Land Technology and FAITH (Food Always in the Home) Garden that he and his co-workers developed
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Shigeharu Matsumoto
Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award 1980
Matsumoto, Shigeharu
JAPAN
The founding Managing Director of the International House of Japan and a pioneer in building constructive relations between Japanese and others through shared knowledge of their diverse histories, needs and national aspirations
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ASEAN
Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award 1979
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
INDONESIA
Established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand
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Summer Institute of Linguistics
Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award 1973
Summer Institute of Linguistics
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Established in 1934 to provide qualified personnel for the growing ministry that William Cameron Townsend began in 1917 by translating the Bible for the Cakchiquel Indians of Central America
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Saburō Ōkita
Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award 1971
Okita, Saburo
JAPAN
An economist who worked to enlarge Japan's consciousness of the Asian and Pacific community of which it must be a part through his writing, training economists, and providing officials, company executives and journalists with economic information
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Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award Laureates (1957 ~ 1970)
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CCILMBCE
Ramon Magsaysay Peace Award 1966
Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong Basin and Cooperating Entities
CAMBODIA
A multi-country committee that has shown what can be achieved for farmers, fishermen and new industry by international cooperative effort in one of the world's most troubled regions