Hochdotierte Auszeichnung für ehemaligen UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan
Gemeinschaft junger Malteser erhält Preis für den Einsatz für Menschen mit Behinderungen in Kriegs- und Krisengebieten.
Münster/Westfalen, 11. April 2008. Der Preis des Westfälischen Friedens is awarded to a former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, and to the community of young for their unselfish dedication to people with disabilities in war and crisis zones. This was announced by the Economic Society of Westphalia and Lippe (WWL) to yesterday, which awards the prize of 50 000 € prize every two years. The awards ceremony is planned on 11 October in the historic town hall Münster.
Kofi Annan was awarded the jury board of the Economic Society and the Peace Prize, "because in spite of many political disappointments and personal insults in the office always by his vision of a peaceful world has remained true. "In Annan's Secretariat on Climate Change report was drawn up, which have been effected a change in awareness of the world. Annan's high moral standing show is currently in the fact that, as in the bloody conflict in Kenya by the parties credible mediator would be accepted, summarizes the executive WWL-board member Horst Annecke the recommendation of the jury.
"The Nobel Peace Prize has always pointed with compelling arguments on the relationship between freedom, social progress, equality and respect for human dignity and with all their might for Peace and Nonviolence in use " erläutert Reinhard Zinkann, erster Vorsitzender der Wirtschaftlichen Gesellschaft und geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Unternehmensgruppe Miele, die Preisvergabe an Kofi Annan.
In der Gemeinschaft junger Malteser wird die Gruppierung ausgezeichnet, die einen aufopferungsvollen Dienst an Kindern und Jugendlichen nit Behinderung in Krisengebieten des Nahen Ostens, insbesondere im Libanon, leistet. "In so genannten Begegnungscamps schenken die Jugendlichen den häufig von ihren Familien verstoßenen und in erbärmliche Waisenhäuser abgeschobenen jungen Menschen mit Behinderung ein kleines, aber starkes Stück Hoffnung und Glück; auch das ist Friedensarbeit in des Wortes bester Bedeutung", heißt es in der Justification for the award of Maltese young people.
The price of the Peace of Westphalia is awarded for ten years, first in 1998 the 350th Anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia. The award recognizes individuals and institutions that have become by their previous life's work as a model for peace building in Europe and the world, as well as young people who by their actions already have an example of political, social and environmental reconciliation and therefore, for peace in the world . The prize of 50 000 € and funded by the Economic Society award, sponsored by leading companies in Westphalia and Lippe, is divided equally to both winners. were
In the past, with the price of the Peace of Westphalia, the former poet and Czech President Vaclav Havel, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the chief prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Carla del Ponte, the conductor Kurt Masur and the former French President Giscard d 'Estaing excellent. The Youth Awards paid tribute to the peace work of the carol singers, the Basque youth movement Gesto por la paz, the youth organization "Students help life in the Balkans, the Bodelschwinghschen stations in Bethel and the Conrad von Soest Gymnasium in Soest and a Breslau Gymnasium for the reconciliation between Poland and Germany.
