Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize, formally the Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace, is awarded annually "in recognition of an individual’s or an organisation’s contribution for the advancement of the cause of peace". The prize was first launched in 2009 by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize Committee under the directive of the caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Masroor Ahmad.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize is presented at the annual Peace Symposium, held here at one of Western Europe's largest mosques, the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London.

Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace
Type	Peace Prize
Awarded for	In recognition of an individual's or an organisation's contribution for the advancement of the cause of peace.
Venue	Jalsa Salana United Kingdom
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize Committee
Established	2009
First awarded	Lord Eric Avebury
Last awarded	David Spurdle
Total recipients	15

The Prize is announced annually at the United Kingdom Annual Convention and is presented the following year at the National Peace Symposium held at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London. The Prize includes a monetary sum, which is normally set at 10,000 pounds sterling.

Recipients

Year	Recipient		Country	Rationale
2009		Lord Eric Avebury[1]	United Kingdom	"For his continued efforts to promote human rights across the world"[1]
2010		Abdus Sattar Edhi[2]	Pakistan	"In recognition of his outstanding work for social welfare and humanitarian relief"
2011		SOS Children's Villages UK	United Kingdom	"For its continued efforts to alleviating the suffering of orphaned and abandoned children around the world and towards fulfilling its vision of ‘a loving home for every child’"[3]
2012		Oheneba Boachie-Adjei	Ghana	"In recognition of his outstanding work in the promotion of peace through his life-changing medical work that has provided hope and a future for thousands of people in the developing world"[4]
2013		Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow[5]	United Kingdom	"In recognition of his outstanding efforts to provide food and education to hundreds of thousands of children in the developing world"[6]
2014		Sindhutai Sapkal	India	"For she has devoted her entire life for orphans"
2015		Hadeel Qasim Hussein Al-Okbi[7]	Iraq	"In recognition of her outstanding efforts for helping child refugees forced to flee areas such as Iraq due to conflict."[7]
2016		Setsuko Thurlow	Japan	"For her excellent efforts to disarm nuclear weapons."[8][9]
2017		Leonid Roshal[10]	Russia	"For his remarkable services to children in war torn areas of the world"[11]
2018		Fred Mednick	United States	"In recognition of his efforts to provide unfettered access to education to some of the most neglected parts of the world"[12]
2019		Barbara Hofmann	Switzerland	"For her outstanding humanitarian efforts in Mozambique from 1989 and onwards."
2020		Adi Patricia Roche	Ireland	"For her tireless efforts in advocating for nuclear disarmament and supporting victims of the Chernobyl disaster".
2021		Cheng Yen	Taiwan
2022		Tadatoshi Akiba	Japan	"For his passionate activism for nuclear disarmament around the world".
2023		David Spurdle	United Kingdom

Statistics

References

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10. Senior Pediatric Surgeon
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