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	Year	Awarded For
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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