The Man of Peace is an award conceptualized in 1999 by the annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome. The purpose of the award is to recognize individuals who "from personalities from the world of culture and entertainment who have stood up for human rights and for the spread of the principles of Peace and Solidarity in the world, made an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace". The award was an initiative by former Soviet leader

Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...

, himself a winner of a Nobel Peace Prize. It is presented in Rome's Campidoglio ( Capitoline Hill) by President Gorbachev, Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome, and the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates attending the annual summit meeting. In its early years the award was referred to as both the "Man for Peace" in Europe and "Man of Peace" in the United States. In 2006 its title was officially changed to "Man of Peace", also "

Peace Summit Award The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates was initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1990s, as a forum in which the Nobel Peace Laureates and the Peace Laureate Organizations could come together to address global issues with a view to encourage a ...

Recipients

*2002: Roberto Benigni *2003: Italian National Singers' Football Team *2004:

Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; ), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, later in ...

*2005:

Bob Geldof Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (; born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter, and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as lead singer of the Rock music in Ireland, Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved ...

and

The PeaceJam Foundation ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in En ...

*2006:

Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched ...

*2007: Don Cheadle and

George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney, numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Awards, British Academy Film A ...

*2008:

Bono Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono (), is an Irish singer-songwriter, activist, and philanthropist. He is the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band U2. Born and raised in Dublin, he attended M ...

*2009:

Annie Lennox Ann Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the New wave music, new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician D ...

*2010:

Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio (; born 18 February 1967) is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an attacking midfielder, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions. He is the former pre ...

*2012: Sean Penn *2013: Sharon Stone *2014: Bernardo Bertolucci *2015: Rene Perez

Peace Summit Award for Social Activism

In addition, the conference also awarded the "Peace Summit Award for Social Activism" to "associations which have distinguished themselves for their outstanding contribution to international peace and social justice".Peace Summit Award for Social Activism
*2005:

PeaceJam PeaceJam is a US-based global youth organization led by Nobel Peace laureates. It was founded by musical artist Ivan Suvanjieff and his wife, the economist Dawn Engle in 1993. PeaceJam was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize eight times. Hist ...

*2010: Nihon Hidankyo

Summit members

1999

(1990) * Joseph Rotblat (1995) *

Betty Williams Elizabeth Williams ( Smyth; 22 May 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, a ...

(1976) *

Rigoberta Menchú Rigoberta Menchú Tum (; born 9 January 1959) is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after t ...

(1992) *

Shimon Peres Shimon Peres (; he, שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of ...

(1994) *

Frederik Willem de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk (, , 18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996 in the democratic government. As South ...

(1993) * David Trimble (1998)

2000

(1990) * Joseph Rotblat (1995) *

(1976) * Lech Wałęsa (1983) *

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born 26 November 1931) is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1 ...

(1980)

2002

(1990) * Joseph Rotblat (1995) *

(1980) *

(1976) * Lech Wałęsa (1983) *

(1992)

2003

(1990) * Joseph Rotblat (represented by

Robert Hinde Robert Aubrey Hinde (26 October 1923 – 23 December 2016) was a British zoologist, ethologist and psychologist.Bateson, P., Stevenson-Hinde, J., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2018). Robert Aubrey Hinde CBE. 26 October 1923—23 December 2016. 65, ...

) (1995) *

and Mairead Maguire (1976) * Lech Wałęsa (1983) *

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

(1989) *

(1994) * Óscar Arias (1987) * Médecins Sans Frontières (1999)

2004

(1990) *

(1989) * Kim Dae-jung (2000) *

(1994) * Lech Wałęsa (1983) * José Ramos-Horta (1996) *

(1976) * Mairead Maguire (1976) * Rigoberta Menchù Tum (1992) * Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (1996) *

(1980) * Joseph Rotblat (1995) *

American Friends Service Committee The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (''Quaker'') founded organization working for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world. AFSC was founded in 1917 as a combined effort by Am ...

(1947) * International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) *

United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to ...

(UNICEF) (1965) * United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1955, 1981) * Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (1995) * International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (1985) * International Labour Organization (1969) * International Peace Bureau (1910) * Institut de Droit International (1904) * Médecins Sans Frontières (1999) * United Nations (1988, 2001) *

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

(1977)

2005

* Mairead Maguire (1976) *

(1993) *

(1990) *

(1992) *

(1980)] * Lech Wałęsa (1983) *

(1976) *

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...

, represented by John Samuels (1993) *

(1947) *

(1977) * International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) * International Labour Organization (1969) * Institut de Droit International (1904) * International Peace Bureau (1910) * International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (1985) * Médecins Sans Frontières (1999) * Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (1995) *

(UNICEF) (1965) * United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1955, 1981) * United Nations (1988, 2001)

Bibliography

*Alberto Abruzzese – Morando Morandini, ''Dietro lo spot Franco Scepi gira Campari'', Mazzotta Editore, Milano 1986 *Gillo Dorfles – Massimo Di Forti Franco Scepi, ''Images from Italy'', Mazzotta Editore, Milano 1987 *Marc Le Cannu – Gillo Dorfles, ''Over ad Art da Depero a Scepi'', Editore Electa Milano 1989 *''Franco Scepi produzione d’immagini'', Edizione CDS Milano 1990 *''Trent'anni e un Secolo di Casa Campari'', Guido Vergani, 1990 *Franco Scepi, ''Over Ad' Art'', Editore Alex Gallery Washington, 1993 *Franco Scepi, ''Strategia dell’immaginazione'' Edizioni l’Artistica Savigliano 1992 *AA. VV., Mikhail Gorbachev: Arte per la pace - oltre ogni muro, l’Uomo della Pace di Scepi Bora edizioni, Bologna 2000,

*''Man for Peace'', Tipleco Editore, 2003 *''Man for Peace'', Sambero Editore, 2004 e 2005 *''Percorso nel Tempo, l'antica Casa di Franco Scepi'', Sambero Editore, 2006

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Man Of Peace Peace awards Awards established in 1999 1999 establishments in Italy