THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM PRIZE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PEACE
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Islam focuses on securing peace in every sphere of human activity. It encourages all to promote education, respect and tolerance, improve social and interfaith harmony, support charitable causes and serve humanity regardless of race, creed or colour.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community is dedicated to establish peace at all levels and to protect the basic human rights of all. In light of this it is keen to recognise efforts made by anyone to advance the cause of peace. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace is therefore awarded in recognition of an individual’s or an organisation’s contribution for the advancement of the cause of peace. The recipient for the award is announced each year at the National Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the award is presented the following year at the UK National Peace Symposium. The prize was launched at the 2009 UK Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention), by His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The award is comprised of a trophy together with a certificate and a monetary prize. |
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2009 PEACE AWARD
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 remained active in protecting the rights of religious and ethnic minorities throughout the world till his death in 2016. Wherever in the world he encountered injustice, persecution and inequality, he was usually the first to speak out.
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2010 PEACE AWARD
Abdul Sattar Edhi Awarded for his life saving and development work in Pakistan and other countries. Mr Edhi founded an amazing organisation that 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. The Late Mr Edhi (died July 2016) was unable to attend and sent a representative on his behalf.
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2011 PEACE AWARD
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.
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2012 PEACE AWARD
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 com-prehensive, affordable orthopedic and spine care to underserved communities in Ghana and throughout West Africa
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2013 PEACE AWARD
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow – Mary's Meals 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. The charity has its roots in a humanitarian response to 1990's Bosnian conflict and has since expanded to help hundreds of thousands of children internationally including Africa, Asia and South America.
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2014 PEACE AWARD
Mrs Sindhutai Sapkal – 'Mother of Orphans' 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.
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2015 PEACE AWARD
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. She 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.
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2016 PEACE AWARD
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 first hand the horrors of death, suffering and destruction she devoted her life to campaign against nuclear weapons. Read more
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