Awarding peace prizes

Description

Awarding peace prizes involves formally recognizing and honoring individuals, organizations, or movements that have made significant contributions to the promotion of peace, conflict resolution, and non-violence. This strategy aims to encourage positive action, raise public awareness, and inspire others by highlighting effective peacebuilding efforts. By providing recognition and often financial support, peace prizes help legitimize and amplify successful initiatives, fostering a culture of peace and offering practical remedies to ongoing conflicts and social divisions.

Implementation

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded five times to the United Nations and its organizations: 1954, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, for tis assistance to European refugees; 1965, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) for its work in helping save the lives of the world's children; 1969, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, for its progress in establishing workers rights and protection; 1981, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, for its assistance to Asian refugees; and 1988, UN Peacekeeping Forces, for its peacekeeping operations. The prize was also awarded to: 1945, Cordel Hull, USA, ex-Secretary of State, for his leadership in establishing the UN; 1949, Lord John Boyd Orr, UK, first Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization; 1950, Ralph Bunche, US, UN Mediator in Palestine (1948), for his leadership in the armistice agreements signed in 1949 by Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria; 1957, Lester Pearson, Canada, ex-secretary of state, President 7th Session of the UN General Assembly, for a lifetime of work for peace and for leading UN efforts to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis; 1961, Dag Hammarskjold, Sweden, Secretary-General of the UN, for his work in helping settle the Congo crisis; and 1974, Dean MacBride, Ireland, UN Commissioner for Namibia.