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The Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award is given annually to honor individuals who have dedicated their lives to public service. It was established in 2000 by the
Prague Society for International Cooperation and th
Global Panel Foundation It is named in honor of the Prague Society's President
Marc S. Ellenbogen
Marc S. Ellenbogen (born 6 February 1963 in Heidelberg) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and a diplomat. He is Chairman of the Global Panel Foundation and president of the Prague Society for International Cooperation.
Ellenbogen´s ma ...
's mother. The award comes with a 150,000 crown cash prize, which the award recipient passes on to a young person who is embarking on his/her career who has already contributed to the development of international relations. For instance when the
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra won the award in 2000 the cash prize was given to Lukas Vondracek, an aspiring musician at the time, who is now recognized worldwide.
Award recipients
First - Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Conducting Corp of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
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Maestro
Vladimir Ashkenazy (the Chief Conductor), and the Conducting Corp of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Include:
Vladimir Valek
Vladimir may refer to:
Names
* Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name
* Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name
* Volodymyr for the Ukra ...
(the permanent conductor), Sir
Charles Mackerras and
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi
is a Japanese people, Japanese conducting, conductor and composer. In Japan he is known among his fans as “Kobaken.”
Biography
Born in Iwaki, Fukushima, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Fukushima, Kobayashi's father was a high school music te ...
(the principal guest conductors)). Askenazy devoted his first years as a musician to the piano. After winning first prizes in Brussels in 1956 and Moscow in 1962, he spent three decades touring the great musical centers of the world. From the 1970s, he became increasingly active as a conductor and held positions with the
Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, W ...
,
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London, that performs and produces primarily classic works.
The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable ...
,
Cleveland Orchestra and
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. From 1998 to 2003 Ashkenazy led the Conducting Corps of the
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he undertook the major Prokofiev-Shostakovich series in 2003. Vladimir Valek has performed in many major cities around the world like Brussels, Cairo, Copenhagen, London, New York, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, and Vienna. Sir Charles Mackerras (in memorium), born in Australia, had a passion for music his entire life and was honored with many awards throughout his life. Kobayashi was the first Asian Conductor to conduct at the
Prague Spring Music Festival
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in 2002.
Financial Part Donated to Lukáš Vondráček
Born in the Czech Republic in 1986 Lukáš Vondráček's musical ability was spotted at the age of two by his mother, herself a professional pianist. He gave his first concert at the age of 4 and now, by the age of 20, he visited 22 different countries giving in excess of 850 concerts. Vladimir Ashkenazy was the conductor when Lukáš made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2002 with concerts in Prague and Italy. Since then he has appeared frequently with the orchestra, including a major USA tour, and concerts in Cologne, Vienna, Lucerne, Bad Kissingen, and
Birmingham's Symphony Hall. In 2010, he won First Prize at the 10th
Hilton Head International Piano Competition The Hilton Head International Piano Competition is a piano competition held annually since 1996 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina's First Presbyterian Church.
Selected list of jurors
* Joseph Banowetz
* José Feghali
* Peter Frankl
* ...
in South Carolina, USA. Most recently, Lukas won First Prize, Grand Prize plus 4 special prizes at the 2012 UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa. In 2016
Lukas Vondráček
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In 2013 it was the ninth most popular name for boys in Australia.
Meaning and different spellings
* Amharic - Luqas (ሉቃስ)
* Arabic - Luqa (لوقا) / Luqas (لوكاس)
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won the
Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in 2016.
Second - Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright served as the
64th Secretary of State of the United States. She was the first woman Secretary of State and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the
US government. As Secretary, Albright reinforced America's alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business abroad. Serving as a member of the
President's Cabinet &
National Security Council
A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a na ...
for 8 years, Albright was the US
Permanent Representative to the UN
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from 1993 to 1997. Albright is the first Michael & Virginia Mortara Endowed Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the
Georgetown School of Foreign Service
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It is considered to be one of the world's leading international affairs schools, granting degrees at both ...
. She is the Chairman of
The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and founder of the
Albright Group, a global strategy firm delivering solutions and advice for businesses in a rapidly changing world.
Financial Part Donated to Petra Procházková
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Madeleine Albright donated financial part to
Petra Procházková
Petra Procházková (; born October 20, 1964 in Český Brod) is a Czech journalist and humanitarian worker. She is best known as a war correspondent from conflict areas of the former Soviet Union.
Procházková studied journalistics at Charles ...
, a Czech journalist and humanitarian worker. She is best known as a war correspondent to the conflict areas of the
former Soviet Union. Procházková studied journalism at
Charles University
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in Prague. In 1989 she started work at the newspaper
Lidové noviny. In 1992 she became Lidové Noviny's Moscow correspondent. Here she began covering conflict areas -
Abkhazia
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being the first. During the
Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 she was the only journalist that stayed in the besieged Russian White House. In 1994, together with fellow journalist
Jaromír Štětina, Procházková founded the independent journalism agency Epicentrum dedicated to war reporting. In the following years she covered events in
Chechnya
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, Abkhazia,
Ossetia,
Georgia,
Tajikistan,
Afghanistan,
Nagorny Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh ( ) is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, within the mountainous range of Karabakh, lying between Lower Karabakh and Syunik, and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains. The region is mos ...
,
Kurdistan,
Kashmir
Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...
and
East Timor.
Third - Václav Havel
Václav Havel grew up in a circle which maintained Czechoslovakia's independent culture in defiance of the
Communist regime of the time. Excluded from higher education, he made his name in the 1960s with satirical plays which contributed to the intellectual atmosphere of the
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring ( cs, Pražské jaro, sk, Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in
the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Sec ...
. During the normalisation period which followed the
Soviet invasion he took menial jobs whilst his work was published in
samizdat. He was one of the first three spokesmen for
Charter 77, and a member of the
Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted. He was sentenced to four and a half years hard labour, resulting in a breakdown in his health. After his release in 1983 he continued to be a leading member of the opposition movement which culminated in the
Velvet Revolution of 1989. He was elected the first President of a free Czechoslovakia and subsequently of the
Czech Republic.
Financial Part Donated to Andrej Dyńko
Václav Havel donated the financial part to
Andrej Dyńko, the editor-in-chief of the independent Belarusian newspaper
Nasha Niva. Openly critical to
President Lukashenko's regime, and the only major newspaper written in Belarusian, Nasha Niva has become an important symbol of freedom and independence. Dynko is a Graduate from
Minsk State Linguistic University, and holds an MA in International Relations. Until August 2000, he also taught at his alma mater. From 2002, Dynko has been the Vice-President of the Belarusian
PEN Center
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.
Fourth - Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
Lord Robertson, born on the
Isle of Islay in Scotland, was elected to the
House of Commons in 1978. After the
Labour Party won the elections in 1997,
Prime Minister Blair appointed him as the
Defence Secretary
A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...
of the
United Kingdom. In August 1999 he was selected as the tenth
Secretary General of
NATO, and the same month received a life peerage, taking the title Lord Robertson of Port Ellen. For 7 years he was on the
Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) where he now serves as Joint President. He has been awarded the Grand Cross of the German Order of Merit and the Grand Cross of the Order of the
Star of Romania and was named joint Parliamentarian of the Year in 1993 for his role during the
Maastricht Treaty ratification. He was appointed a member of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's
Privy Council
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the mon ...
in May 1997.
Financial Part Donated to David Hodan
Lord Robertson donated the financial part to David Hodan, who first met Lord Robertson in May 2003. Encouraged by Ms
Bela Gran Jensen, founder of the "Centipede" movement, he wrote an essay named "What I would do if I were General Secretary of NATO". Lord Robertson read the essay and asked to meet David, saying that he especially liked the quotation from
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...
which David used in the essay: "I am interested in my future because that is where I am going to spend the rest of my life." The meeting took place within sight of
Prague Castle – which David likes to call his "future seat". A student at the
Terezie Brzková
Terezie Brzková (11 January 1875 – 19 November 1966) was a Czechoslovak film actress. She appeared in 28 films between 1939 and 1959. She is buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague.
Selected filmography
* '' The Magic House'' (1939)
* ...
33-35 school in
Pilsen (of which
Marc S. Ellenbogen
Marc S. Ellenbogen (born 6 February 1963 in Heidelberg) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and a diplomat. He is Chairman of the Global Panel Foundation and president of the Prague Society for International Cooperation.
Ellenbogen´s ma ...
is a Patron), his ambition is one day to become President of this country. As he says himself, he is an "ordinary boy" with the interests of a boy of his age – he reads a lot and works with computers, but he also has a special interest in current world events, politics and medicine. He is particularly concerned about parts of the world where children suffer as a result of military conflict. David is a boy with the courage to say what he thinks, and to have dreams which may come true.
Fifth - Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (; ; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968.
Forman ...
, born in
Čáslav
Čáslav (; german: Tschaslau) is a town in Kutná Hora District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 10,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.
Administ ...
outside Prague, he lost both his parents in the
Nazi death camps
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. After studying in Prague he made his first feature film in 1963:
''Black Peter'', an autobiographical account of a teenager in a small Czech town. He gained international recognition with ''
Loves of a Blonde
''Loves of a Blonde'' ( cs, Lásky jedné plavovlásky), also known as ''A Blonde in Love'', is a 1965 Czechoslovak comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman that follows a young woman, Andula, who has a routine job in a shoe factory in provin ...
''. Despite this, his next film, ''
The Firemen's Ball
''The Firemen's Ball'' (or ''The Fireman's Ball''; cs, Hoří, má panenko - "Fire, my lady") is a 1967 comedy film directed by Miloš Forman. It is set at the annual ball of a small town's volunteer fire department, and the plot portrays a ser ...
'', attracted the attention of the Communist authorities and was banned. After the
Soviet invasion of 1968, Forman settled in America, winning international fame with ''
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest may refer to:
* ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (novel), a 1962 novel by Ken Kesey
* ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (play), a 1963 stage adaptation of the novel starring Kirk Douglas
* ''One Flew Over the ...
''. It swept the Academy Awards, winning all five major Oscars. From his earliest Czechoslovakian work through his American period to ''
Goya's Ghosts
''Goya's Ghosts'' is a 2006 biographical drama film, directed by Miloš Forman (his final directorial feature before his death in 2018), and written by him and Jean-Claude Carrière. The film stars Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skar ...
'', Forman's directing remains close to the reality of life; its absurdity and transforming joys.
Financial Part Donated to the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček in Písek
Financial part was donated to the Film Academy of
Miroslav Ondříček
Miroslav Ondříček (4 November 1934 – 28 March 2015) was a Czech cinematographer who worked on over 40 films, including ''Amadeus'', ''Ragtime'' and '' If....''.
Life and career
Miroslav Ondříček was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now P ...
in Písek. The Film Academy divided financial part into three parts of 50,000 crowns each to provide scholarships for students. The first recipient was the 27-year-old student of film, Martin Palouš, who received the Award from
Marc S. Ellenbogen
Marc S. Ellenbogen (born 6 February 1963 in Heidelberg) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and a diplomat. He is Chairman of the Global Panel Foundation and president of the Prague Society for International Cooperation.
Ellenbogen´s ma ...
on 11 October 2007 at the celebratory opening of the
Písek Film Festival.
Sixth - Romania's King Michael I
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His Majesty King
Michael I of Romania (born 1922; died 2017) has twice been Head of State in Romania: from 1927 to 1930 and from 1940 to 1947, when he was deposed by the Communists, stripped of his citizenship, and banished from the country. Over the next fifty-five years he worked as a mechanic, commercial pilot and businessman and, with his wife Queen Anne, Princess of Bourbon-Parma, brought up their five daughters. In 1997 he said in an interview: "The King is head of state but he is also the first servant of the people. Never forget that."
Financial Part Donated to Petrisor Ostafie
A student of Medical Bio-engineering in
Iasi,
Petrisor Ostafie is an example of someone who, on receiving something, returns more than was given. He proved this by being first a volunteer and then a member of the Board of the Alaturi de Voi (Close to You) Romania Foundation. In addition, he exudes in speaking on numerous occasions about what it means to live with
HIV and has become an example for many young people in the same situation. Petrisor has spent over 4000 hours of voluntary work on programs developed by the Alaturi de Voi Romania Foundation and has brought hope to over 200 young people living with HIV.
Seventh - Alexander Milinkevich (Alaksandar Milinkievič)
Alaksandar Milinkievič
Alaksandar Uladzimyeravič Milinkyevič ( be, Аляксандар Уладзімеравіч Мілінкевіч, translit=Alyaksandar Uladzimyeravich Milinkyevich, russian: Александр Владимирович Милинкевич, trans ...
became involved in the local politics of his home city,
Hrodna, in the 1980s. Four years in
Algiers
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setting up the Faculty of Physics at
Sétif University, had given him a wider experience of the world than his contemporaries. After the
fall of the Soviet Union, he entered national politics, becoming Chief of Staff to one of the opposition leaders. In 2005 he was chosen by the
United Democratic Forces of Belarus as joint candidate of the opposition in the
presidential elections of 2006, to stand against the authoritarian
Alexander Lukashenko. He was held by the police before and after the elections on false charges of drunken driving, forgery, drug trafficking and leaving Belarus illegally.
Financial Part Donated to Pavel Sieviarynets
Paval Sieviaryniec is a prominent young Belarusian politician leader of the
Christian Democratic Party and founder of the
Young Front
Young Front ( be, Малады Фронт, malady front, МФ) is a Belarusian youth movement registered in the Czech Republic. It is the largest youth organisation of Belarus declaring democratic values. It is a member of the European Democrat ...
that is one of the most persecuted political organisations in Belarus. He is also a talented publicist, author of a number of books and articles in which he presents his ideas and values, calling Belarusians to a national awakening and protest against autocratic rule.
Eighth - In honor of Desmond Mullan
In honor of
Desmond Mullan (in memoriam). Mullan, managing director of
Volvo Auto Czech 2000-2006, was one of the Prague Society's main supporters. He was involved in many fields during his time in the Czech Republic: Vice-Chairman of the
British Chamber of Commerce
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** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
, he was also well known for his support of the
International School of Prague
The International School of Prague (ISP) is an independent, English-speaking, non-profit, international school in Prague, Czech Republic.
Established in 1948, ISP is both the oldest and largest international school in the Czech Republic, with ov ...
, and an active member of the congregation of the Roman Catholic Church of
St Thomas in Mala Strana. Hundreds of friends attended his funeral in St Thomas's. For his warm heart, generosity, and for all the good deeds he and his wife Helen did while they lived in Prague, the Prague Society had the honor to make him a special recipient of the HRE Citizenship Award in memoriam. This was a special award with no secondary nominee.
Ninth - The 14th Dalai Lama
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The
14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, is both the head of state and the spiritual leader of
Tibet. In 1950 the Dalai Lama was called upon to assume full political power after
China's invasion of Tibet in 1949. In 1954, he went to Beijing for peace talks with
Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders, including
Deng Xiaoping and
Chou Enlai
Zhou Enlai (; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman and military officer who served as the first premier of the People's Republic of China from 1 October 1949 until his death on 8 January 1976. Zhou served under Chairman Mao ...
. Since the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama has appealed to the
United Nations on the question of Tibet. The General Assembly adopted
three resolutions on Tibet in 1959, 1961 and 1965. In September 1987 the Dalai Lama proposed the Five Point Peace Plan for Tibet as the first step towards a peaceful solution to the worsening situation in Tibet. In 1989 he was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet. He has consistently advocated policies of non-violence, even in the face of extreme aggression. He also became the first Nobel Laureate to be recognized for his concern for global environmental problems.
Financial Part Donated to Dobrý Anjel
The 14th Dalai Lama donated the financial part to the Slovak charity "
Dobrý anjel" (Good Angel) which helps families of children that suffer from cancer or other insidious diseases such as: cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, chronic renal failure, muscular dystrophy or down syndrome. Donations are made to families based on financial need. The charity was founded by Igor Brossmann and
Andrej Kiska.
Tenth - Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of ''
Gazeta Wyborcza'', the biggest daily in Poland and the first independent news daily after Communism. A historian and co-founder of KOR (Committee for the Defense of Workers) 1976, he was detained many times during 1965-1980 and was a prominent Solidarity activist during the 80s, and spent a total of six years in Polish prisons for activities opposing the
communist regime. Member of the Round Table Talks in 1989; member of the first non-communist parliament 1989-1991. He is the Laureat of many prizes and titles:
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, was created by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial in 1984, now known as the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights to honour individuals around the world who have shown great courage and have made a significant contr ...
;
The Erasmus Prize; The Francisco Cerecedo Journalist Prize as a first non-Spanish author; Grand Prince Giedymin Order;
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur; recipient of a
doctorate honoris causa from The
New School for Social Research in New York, from the
University of Minnesota,
University of Michigan and from
Connecticut College; honorary senator of the
University of Ljubljana; and
honorary professor
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of the
Kyiv Mohyla Academy.
Financial Part Donated to Young Journalists
Michnik presented the financial portion of the award to two young journalists at the Polish daily ''
Gazeta Wyborcza'',
Juliusz Kurkiewicz and
Aleksandra Klich-Siewiorek.
Eleventh - Wesley Clark, ''Jiří Dienstbier and Andrés Pastrana''
Wesley Clark served the United States with honor for 34 years. He was the
Supreme Allied Commander
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of NATO (
SACEUR
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) and a US presidential candidate in 2004. Almost immediately after becoming
SACEUR
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Clark started pushing for NATO membership for Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. He became the first
NATO commander to visit Prague after the fall of Communism. His legacy in the region is marked by these efforts and
Kosovo.
Twelfth - ''Wesley Clark,'' Jiří Dienstbier ''and Andrés Pastrana''
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As one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondents,
Jiří Dienstbier
Jiří Dienstbier (20 April 1937 – 8 January 2011) was a Czech politician and journalist. Born in Kladno, he was one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondents before being fired after the Prague Spring. Unable to have a liveliho ...
lost his job after the end of
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring ( cs, Pražské jaro, sk, Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in
the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Sec ...
and had menial jobs for the following two decades. During this time he became a signatory of
Charta 77
Charter 77 (''Charta 77'' in Czech and Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Něm ...
, helped to restart
Lidové Noviny, one of the country's major newspapers. Later he reemerged with the
Velvet Revolution, becoming the first
Foreign Minister
A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between cou ...
of post-Communist Czechoslovakia in 1989.
Dienstbier became a hero to millions when, together with then German Foreign Minister
Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Austrian Foreign Minister
Alois Mock
Alois Mock (10 June 1934 – 1 June 2017) was an Austrian politician and member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1987 to 1989. As foreign minister, he helped take Austria into the European Union.
Life ...
, he cut the "iron curtain." The images spread across the world.
As a politician he played a pre-eminent role in shaping post-Communist foreign policy in a democratic Czechoslovakia between 1989 and 1993 and from Central Europe to Asia to the Middle East. When the Czech Republic and Slovakia separated as states, he played a leading role as a commentator and thoughtful rebel. Finally he entered politics again in the 21st century as a Senator and Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Financial Part Donated To Jiřina Dienstbierová
The financial part of Jiří Dienstbier's award was donated to fund the design and publishing of a new book, "Jiří Dienstbier – rozhlasový zpravodaj."
Thirteenth - ''Wesley Clark, Jiří Dienstbier and'' Andrés Pastrana
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Andrés Pastrana
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*Andres, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
*Andres (name)
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* "Andres" (song), a 1994 song by L7
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was President of Colombia from 1998-2002. As a lawyer and journalist, Pastrana had been dedicated to fighting corruption and the
Colombian drug trade that lies at the root of his country's civil conflict already before he became president. As President he was determined to solve the armed conflict - through negotiation rather than force. While
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
has not found peace to this day, its army found itself in a much better position to face the major
guerrilla organizations after Pastrana's term. During his administration Colombia regained the support of the international community that previously had turned its back on it and the country gained economic support and military aid. At the same time he left Colombia's guerrilla organizations politically undermined with Colombians regarding them as terrorists rather than freedom fighters.
Fourteenth - Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská
en, the love of Tokyo ja, 「オリンピックの名花」 en, darling of the Olympic Games
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won seven Olympic gold medals before she was forced into retirement and for many years was denied the right to travel, work and attend sporting events following her protest against the Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. A signatory of
The Two Thousand Words
"The Two Thousand Words" (full title: 2000 Words to Workers, Farmers, Officials, Scientists, Artists, and Everyone; ) is a manifesto written by Czech reformist writer Ludvík Vaculík. It was signed by intellectuals and artists on June 17, 1968, i ...
manifesto, Čáslavská was known for her outspoken support of the Czechoslovak democratization movement. At the
1968 Olympics 1968 Olympics may refer to:
* 1968 Summer Olympics, which were held in Mexico City, Mexico
* 1968 Winter Olympics
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter ...
in Mexico City she quietly looked down and away while the Soviet national anthem was played during medal ceremonies. Her subtle but highly public and widely understood protest resulted in her becoming a persona non grata in the new regime.
Financial Part Donated to Primary School in Černošice
The financial part of Věra Čáslavská was donated to eight hundred children, and to support construction of a sports hall at Primary School in
Černošice.
Fifteenth - Iva Drápalová
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'
Iva Drápalová'' refused to cooperate with the
StB, the Communist secret police, even when she and her family were threatened. In 1968 she started working for the
Associated Press bureau in Prague when, following the crushing of the
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring ( cs, Pražské jaro, sk, Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in
the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Sec ...
, nobody else wanted the job. Initially she only agreed to help out as a translator for one week. Two year's later she had become AP's Prague correspondent. After she retired in 1988 she was a translator at
Velvet Revolution press conferences and later she worked as a consultant for the
L.A. Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
.
Financial Part Donated to Štěpán Ripka
The financial part of Iva Drápalová was given to Štěpán Ripka as the recipient of the monetary part of her award. Štěpán Ripka is a social researcher and policy analyst who studies
Roma
Roma or ROMA may refer to:
Places Australia
* Roma, Queensland, a town
** Roma Airport
** Roma Courthouse
** Electoral district of Roma, defunct
** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council
*Roma Street, Brisbane, a ...
communities, advises the
Open Society Institute and the Czech Government he also chairs the Platform for Social Housing and pursues a PhD in social anthropology at
Charles University
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in Prague.
Sixteenth - Tony Fitzjohn and Souad Mekhennet
Tony Fitzjohn
Anthony Raymond Fitzjohn, Order of the British Empire, OBE (7 July 1945 – 23 May 2022) was a British conservation movement, conservationist who worked extensively with George Adamson at Kora National Park, Kora in Africa.
In recognition of h ...
is a legendary
conservationist who worked extensively with George Adamson (of "Born Free" fame) and currently runs a successful sanctuary for rhinos and African wild dogs in
Mkomazi National Park
Mkomazi National Park is located in northeastern Tanzania on the Kenyan border, in Kilimanjaro Region and Tanga Region. It was established as a game reserve in 1951 and upgraded to a national park in 2006.
The park covers over , and is dominate ...
in
Tanzania. Fitzjohn left for Africa in his early twenties and immediately fell in love with the continent. He spent 18 years in Kora in northern
Kenya releasing lions and other big cats back into the wild. In the late 1980s he was invited by Tanzanian government to help to establish a new national park in the area that was then Mkomazi Game Reserve. He led the building of the infrastructure and later established and stocked the first successful rhinoceros sanctuary in Tanzania for which he developed dedicated anti-poaching units. As he emphasizes close cooperation with neighboring communities, he developed special programmes that allow local children and students to visit Mkomazi National Park and a rhino sanctuary.
He provides local communities with clean water supplies, dispensary and Flying Doctor services - with a notable achievement of completing construction of a new secondary school for 400 children. In 2006, Tony Fitzjohn was recognized as an Officer of the
Order of the British Empire for his life-time commitment to conservation.
Souad Mekhennet has long been recognized for her coverage of the
Arabic-speaking world
The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western As ...
- especially women's issues. She was born in
Germany - the daughter of a Turkish mother and Moroccan father. She studied international relations, political science, sociology, psychology and history at the
University of Frankfurt. She also attended the
Henri-Nannen School of Journalism in
Hamburg, later taking courses at the
City University of New York - School of Journalism. That led to her career as a reporter for the
New York Times. Since shortly after September 11, she has been reporting about
radical Islamic movements. Her articles tell stories of hope, fear and the real life of Muslims throughout the world as Muslim countries undergo dramatic and traumatic changes. Currently she is a moderator and public speaker and works for the
Washington Post Newspaper, German TV channel
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
and
The Daily Beast. Mekhennet has been interviewed for various TV and radio shows in the US and Europe. She is a visiting fellow at the
Weatherhead Centre at
Harvard University, and at the
School for Advanced and International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University. Under great threat to herself, Mekhennet has continued to pursue the plight of peoples in conflict zones.
Financial Part Donated to Praunheimer Werkstätten and Arthur F. Sniegon
The financial parts were divided as Souad Mekhennet nominated organizations Praunheimer Werkstätten (working with challenged people) and Die Weisser Ring (Helping the victims of crimes), Tony Fitzjohn nominated Arthur F. Sniegon which is an aspiring conservationist from Czech Republic.
Seventeenth - Magda Vášáryová and Zdeněk Tůma
Magda Vášáryová
Magda is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of names such as Magdalena, which may refer to:
* Magda Apanowicz (born 1985), Canadian actress
* Magda B. Arnold (1903–2002), Czechoslovakian-born American psychologist
* Magd ...
born August 26 - of mixed German, Hungarian and Slovak origins - is known for being one of Czechoslovakia's great actresses. Vaclav Havel wanted her to become the Vice President of democratic Czechoslovakia after 1989 - but she declined. In 1999, she became the first female presidential candidate in
Slovakia. In 1971 she completed her studies at Bratislava's
Comenius University. Until 1989, she acted in several theaters including the
Slovak National Theatre
The Slovak National Theater ( sk, Slovenské národné divadlo, abbr. SND) is the oldest professional theatre in Slovakia, consisting of three ensembles: opera, ballet, and drama. Its history begins shortly after the establishment of the first ...
after a long movies career. She was the Ambassador of Czechoslovakia in Austria (1990– 1993). After the split of Czech and Slovakia, she became Ambassador to Poland (2000–2005). From February 2005 to July 2006 she held the position of State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, she was elected to the National Council of the Slovak Republic for Slovak Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party. She spent here entire career fighting Communism and corruption.
Zdeněk Tůma (born České Budějovice, 1960) was Governor of the Czech Central Bank for 10 years. He graduated from the
University of Economics, Prague, later finishing his postgraduate studies at the
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He was the Chief Economist at Patria Finance Investment Bank in the 90's. In 1998 he moved to the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991. As a multilateral developmental investment bank, the EBRD uses investment as a tool to build market economies. Initially focus ...
where he became a member of the Executive Board. In early 1999, Tuma was appointed Vice-Governor of the Czech National Bank. In December 2000, he was made Governor which he held until 2010. In this capacity he sat on the Boards of the
European Central Bank,
International Monetary Fund, and
Bank for International Settlement
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution owned by central banks that "fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks".
The BIS carries out its work thr ...
. He is currently a partner in
KPMG
KPMG International Limited (or simply KPMG) is a multinational professional services network, and one of the Big Four accounting organizations.
Headquartered in Amstelveen, Netherlands, although incorporated in London, England, KPMG is a net ...
Czech Republic. He is an external Lecturer at the Institute of Economic Studies of Charles University, where he covers monetary policy and financial regulation. He is a member of the Scientific Boards of the
Czech Technical University (CVUT) and the
University of South Bohemia
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...
. He is on the Statutory Boards of the Prague-based
Academy of Performing Arts, the University of Economics and
CERGE-EI Foundation. He is on the Board of Governors of
English College and the Supervisory Board of Výbor dobré vůle – Foundation of Olga Havlová. He was the President of the Czech Economic Society from 1999 to 2001. During his tenure, Tuma was consistently recognized as one of the World's top-ten Central Bankers.
Financial Part Donated to Petr Koukal and Živena
The financial part was divided into 2 parts as Magda Vášáryova has chosen the oldest women organization in Europe -
Živenaand its activity towards females from the Roma community in Slovakia and Zdeněk Tuma has chosen
Petr Koukal (badminton)
Petr Koukal (; born 14 December 1985) is a Czech professional badminton player.
Biography
Koukal started playing badminton in 1993, at a club owned by his father in Hořovice, and made his debut in the international tournament in 2000. In 2003 he ...
, Czech Olympic winner and his foundation which is helping men with testicle cancer.
Eighteenth - The Santa Marta Group and its President, Cardinal Vincent Nichols
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Th
Santa Marta Groupcombats
modern slavery and
human trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extrac ...
globally. In particular it focuses on bringing together the heads of national and international police and law enforcement agencies along with international organisations to look at how they can work with the Catholic Church to help victims. The Santa Marta Group is named after the home of
Pope Francis and was initiated by the
Catholic Bishops' Conference for England and Wales. It was established in Rome in 2014 when police chiefs and Catholic bishops came together in the presence of Pope Francis. Cardinal
Vincent Nichols is the President of the Santa Marta Group,
Archbishop of Westminster
The Archbishop of Westminster heads the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster, in England. The incumbent is the metropolitan of the Province of Westminster, chief metropolitan of England and Wales and, as a matter of custom, is elected presid ...
and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wale. Modern slavery is one of the gravest criminal challenges confronting the international community. The scale of the problem is such that now, according to some studies, it ranks as the second most profitable worldwide criminal enterprise after the illegal arms trade. This exploitation can take many forms including forced labour, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, forced criminality and organ harvesting. Both
Pope Benedict and Pope Francis continually drew the attention of the
Church and wider world to the moral and human crisis evident in this widespread human exploit
![Caritas Bakhita House](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Caritas_Bakhita_House.jpg)
Financial Part Donated to Caritas Bakhita House
Cardinal Vincent Nicols intends to donate the money from the award to Caritas Bakhita House in the Diocese of Westminster for their work to help victims of trafficking get back on their feet, whether they wish to return home or find suitability in this country.
"Special Commemorative Award" to Ján Kuciak & Martina Kušnírová (Slovakia) and Tom Nicholson (Canada)
Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová receive a Special Commemorative Award for their courageous commitment to Kuciak's work as an investigative reporter. The couple were murdered in their home in February 2018 in an attempt to silence them. Kuciak, in his work, focused on politically related fraud. At the time of his death he had been working on a story on the influence of the
Calabrian mafia
The 'Ndrangheta (, , ) is a prominent Italian Mafia-type organized crime syndicate and criminal society based in the peninsular and mountainous region of Calabria and dating back to the late 18th century. It is considered one of the most powerf ...
, the 'Ndrangheta,' on business and politics in Slovakia.
The murders caused mass protests and a lasting political crisis in Slovakia. They led to the resignation of the prime minister and his cabinet, as well as the head of police. At the time of writing no one has been charged with the murders.
Tom Nicholson is an investigative journalist who has covered Slovakia for the past 20 years. He was editor-in-chief at the
Slovak Spectator
''The Slovak Spectator'' (or in abbreviated form ''Slovak Spectator'') is Slovakia's English-language newspaper.
History and profile
The debut issue of ''The Slovak Spectator'' hit newsstands across Slovakia on 1 March, 1995.
The newspaper was ...
and head of investigative reporting at the SME daily. Later he worked for the weekly
Trend.
He is best known for making public the '
Gorilla' scandal in Slovakia in 2012. 'Gorilla' is considered by many the biggest corruption story in Slovak history. It is named after a Slovak Secret Service wiretap file which alleges massive fraud at the highest level of Slovak politics and business. It exposed politicians, public officials and business representatives discussing kickbacks in return for procurement and privatization contracts and rocked the
Slovak political scene.
Nicholson lives in
Canada and is finishing a book on ties between politics and organized crime.
Nineteenth - Ing. Ivan M. Havel and Ing. Ivan Chvatik
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Born in 1938,
Ivan Havel was a dissident and one of the outstanding figures of the scientific community in the Czech Republic of the past decades. He dedicated his life to academics and research in the field of computer science. After leaving Czechoslovakia in 1969 for doctoral studies at the
University of California, Berkeley, not many believed that he would ever come back. Before the communist regime collapsed in 1989, he was engaged in semi-official scientific work and often hosted discussion groups inviting dissidents and academics in his apartment overlooking the
River Vltava
Vltava ( , ; german: Moldau ) is the longest river in the Czech Republic, running southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice and Prague, and finally merging with the Labe at ...
in Prague. He also cooperated with
samizdat editions, for which he was harassed and briefly detained on several occasions by the
StB. After the
Velvet Revolution he decided to distance himself from politics and turned his focus to science and academia. He later co-founded the Center of Theoretical Studies (jointly with Ivan Chvatik) in Prague and held the position of
Editor-in-Chief of the esteemed scientific journal
Vesmír
Vesmír is a Czech science magazine that has been published since 1871. As of 2012, it is produced by the Czech Academy of Sciences and published by Academia (Czech publishing house), Academia.
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for over two decades. He was a member of
Academia Europaea and several other professional societies, and served on boards of various academic institutions and cultural foundations.
Ivan Chvatíkwas born in Olomouc on 15 September 1941. He graduated from nuclear physics at the
Czech Technical University in Prague
Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU, cs, České vysoké učení technické v Praze, ČVUT) is one of the largest university, universities in the Czech Republic with 8 faculties, and is one of the oldest institutes of technology in Centra ...
. After being briefly employed at the Department of Logic at Aritma, he worked for more than twenty years as the head of the Technical Department of the Computer Centre of the Machine Technology Factories in Prague (1967-1989). He was in charge of the Swedish computer
Datasaab, which he mastered, allowing him to demand and receive flexible working hours. That gave him enough time to focus on philosophy, to which he was mainly introduced by
Jan Patočka. From autumn 1968 Chavtik attended Patočka’s lectures at the
Faculty of Arts of Charles University
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University ( cs, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy), is one of the original four faculties of Charles University in Prague. When founded, it was named the Faculty of the Liberal Arts or the Artistic Faculty. The f ...
, and a year later he became Patočka’s external research candidate. When Patočka was forced to leave the faculty in 1972. After Patočka’s death in March 1977, he and his friends saved the philosophers writings, which they gradually worked on releasing in samizdat. They managed to publish 27 volumes in blue binding, now called the Archival Series of Jan Patočka’s Works, before the
Velvet Revolution.
Twentieth - Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Markus Meckel
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Born on 21 March 1927,
Hans-Dietrich Genscher was a German politician of the liberal
Free Democratic Party (FDP). He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1992, making him the longest-tenured holder of either post. Amongst many of his achievements, he is greatly respected for his significant efforts that helped spell the end of the
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
in the late 1980s, when Communist eastern European governments toppled leading to
German reunification
German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...
. During his time in office, he focused on maintaining stability and balance between the West and the Soviet bloc. From the beginning, he argued that the West should seek cooperation with Communist governments rather than treat them as implacably hostile. In 1991, he played a pivotal role in international diplomacy surrounding the breakup of
Yugoslavia by successfully pushing for international recognition of
Croatia,
Slovenia and other republics declaring independence. After leaving office, he worked as a lawyer and international consultant. Genscher passed away at his home outside
Bonn in Wachtberg on 31 March 2016, one week and three days after his 89th birthday. The HRE Award will be received by his widow Barbara Genscher.
Markus Meckel is a theologian and politician who was involved with the opposition in the
German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the 1970s. During the last phase of the East-German state, he co-founded the
Social Democratic Party in the GDR, which later transformed into the
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
Saskia Esken has been the ...
, one of the two major parties in the country today. Just before the dissolution of the
GDR
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
, he became its first democratically elected Foreign Minister. As member of the
German Bundestag (1990-2009), he focused on European politics, security issues and
Eastern Partnership. He was Vice-Spokesman of the Social Democrats for foreign policy and Spokesman in two commissions dealing with the SED dictatorship and its consequences. Serving as President of the
German War Graves Commission
The German War Graves Commission ( in German) is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of German war graves in Europe and North Africa. Its objectives are acquisition, maintenance and care of German war graves; tending to next of kin; youth ...
from 2013 to 2016, he has been an advocate for the remembrance of the casualties of war by conserving cemeteries and organizing international work camps for young people. Currently Mr. Meckel is chairman of the
Council of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, co-chairman of the Council of the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation and member of the Advisory Board of
European Network Remembrance and Solidarity European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) was created in 2005 as a joint initiative by German, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak ministers of culture. In 2014 Romania joined the structure.
The purpose of the ENRS is to document and promote ...
.
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* http://praguesociety.org/hanno-r-ellenbogen-citizenship-award/
Hanno R. Ellenboen Citizenship Award Page on Praguesociety.orgMilinkevich surrenders Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award in favor of Pavel SevyarynetsMilos Forman fifth winner of Hanno R.Ellenbogen awardPrague Society for International Cooperation establishes Hanno R. Ellenbogen AwardAlbright to be granted Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship AwardPrague Society honours former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson - 09-12-2004 - Radio PragueWriter recalls Chechan warHavel Receives Ellenbogen Citizenship Award*
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*https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en/chvatik-ivan-1941
*https://apnews.com/article/9af1460a1abf427eb9e3a983607046ee
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