U Thant Peace Award – Recipients List 1982 – 2001

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Since 1982, Sri Chinmoy has presented the U Thant Peace Award on behalf of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations to individuals and organizations who, in exemplifying the lofty spiritual ideals of he late UN Secretary General,have offered distinguished service toward attainment of world peace. Recipients include Pope John Paul II. President Mikhail Gorbachev, President Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and UNICEF Executive Director James Grant.

U Thant’s daughter, Aye Aye Thant, recently thanked Sri Chinmoy for presenting the Award in her father’s memory for nearly two decades, writing “I am deeply grateful to you for establishing the Award and having honoured the distinguished and outstanding advocates for peace and humanity…My father would have been so pleased…

A partial listing of recipients in chronological order follows (titles were current at time of award presentation:

  • Zennon Rossides – Ambassador of Cyprus to the UN ~ 1982, Oct 07
  • Jorge Illueca, President of Panama, President of the 38th Session of the UN General Assembly – 1983 Dec 03
  • United Nations Development Programme. –1985 March 19th, received on behalf of UNDP by:
  • Uner Kidar, Director of Division of External Relations and Governing Council Secretariat
  •  Bradford Morse, administrator of UNDP, gave statement on 21 March 1985.
  • Dr. Russel (Amritananda) Barber, WNBC-TV Religion Editor, Emmy Award winner – 1986 Nov 06
  • 1991 Sarvamanya Neta Ganesh Man Singh , 13 March 1991, HE. Mr. Ganesh Man Singh, Nepali Congress Supreme Leader,
  • Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. Head of the Sufie Order in the West  (1991 Apr 05)
  • Guido De Marco, President of the 45th session of UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Malta – 1991- Sep 28
  • Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Ambassador of India to the  United States – 1993 Aug 08
  • C. Subramaniam. President o Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan , – 1993 Sep 12
  • James P. Grant, UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) Executive Director, 1994 Sep 20
  • Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Laureate (1979); – 1994 Oct 01
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, (1985 -91); Nobel Peace Laureate, (1990) ; – 1994 Oct 16
  • Laxmi Mail Singhvi, High commissioner for India to the United Kingdom -1995 May 13
  • Rafael Hernandez Colon, Governor of Puerto Rico (1972 – 76, 1984-92)  – 1995 sep 08
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Head of the Anglican Church in south Africa, Archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Laureate (1984); 1995 Dec 20
  • Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe – 1996 Jan 01
  • Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Laureate (1993), – 1996 Jan 29
  • Maurice Strong, Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank, Secretary-General of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Earth Summit) – 1996 May 02
  • C.V. Narasimhan, Former Under-Secretary-General of the UN (1956-78), Chef de Cabinet to three Secretaries-General – 1996 Sep 10
  • Ananda Guruge, Former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to UNESCO, France and the US, Senior Special Advisor, Culture of Peace Programme, UNESCO (1995-1999) – 1997 Jan 03
  • Vladimir Petrovsky, Under Secretary General and Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva – 1997 Mar 17
  • Sudhahota Carl Lewis, legendary Olympic athlete – 1997 May 7
  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama – 1997 May 28
  • O.K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India – 1997 Sep 21
  • Dada J.P. Vaswani, Spiritual Head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission – 1998 Apr 5
  • Pope John Paul II – 1998 May 17
  • Claiborne DeBorda Pell, US Senator, Rhode Island 1998 Nov 15
  • King Tuanku Ja’Aear (spell?) of Malaysia 1998 Dec 30
  • Mahathir Mohammed, Prime Minister of Malaysia – 1999 Jan 04
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  • Girija Prasad Koirala (sp?), Prime Minister of Nepal -1999 Feb 01
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  • Krishna Prasad Bhajtaraj. Prime Minister of Nepal 1999 Sep 29
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  • Ted Turner, Founder of CNN, Time Warner Vice Chairman and Chairman of the UN foundation – 1999 Oct 06
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  • Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the UN – 1999 Nov 23
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  • Svenn Kristiansen, Deputy Mayor of Oslo, Norway 2000 Mar 27
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  • Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, President of the 41st Session of the UN General Assembly. Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, Speaker, Bangladesh Parliament – 2000 May 08
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  • Gary Ackerman, United States Congressman from New York – 2000 Jun 15
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  • Satguru Sivaya Subramuntyaswami (sp?), founder and publisher of Hinduism Today magazine and international Hindu leader – 2000 Aug 25
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Sp?), Prime Minister of India – 2001 Jan 13
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  • The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, President, The Interfaith Center of New York, and Dean Emeritus, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine – 2001 Jul 31
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  • Javier Perez de Cuellar 5th UN Secretary-General  May 26th, 2005
 
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confrm dates and names for these – with beginning information and links to be updated above .references may be useful to confrm the curent link..
  • 2007 Pascal Alan Nazareth
  • 2007 Ibrahim Gambari
  • 2007 Bill Pearl
  • 2004 Kurt Waldheim
  • 2002 Swami Satchidananda[4]
  • 2002 Daw Aye Aye Thant[5]
  • 2002 Ravi Shankar[6]
  • 2001 Atal Bihari Vajpayee[2]
  • 2000 Sivaya Subramuniyaswami[7]
  • 1999 Mahathir Mohammed
  • 1998 Pope John Paul II [1][2]
  • 1998 Dada J.P. Vaswani
  • 1997 Dalai Lama
  • 1996 Nelson Mandela [1][2]
  • 1996 Maurice Strong
  • 1995 Desmond Tutu
  • 1994 Mother Teresa [1][2]
  • 1994 Mikhail Gorbachev [1][2]

some external references to be confirmed:

  1.  New Straits Times “King presented with U Thant Peace award”. 1998-12-31. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
  2.  Hinduism Today “Sri Chinmoy Presents U Thant Award”. 2001-02-04. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
  3.  srichinmoy.org “The U Thant Peace Award”. 2010-00-00. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
  4. poetseers.org “Swami Satchidananda”. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
  5. srichinmoybio.co.uk “Daw Aye Aye Thant”. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
  6. srichinmoy-reflections.com “Ravi Shankar Gets U Thant Peace Award”. 2010-12-00. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
  7. J Hinduism Today “Our Publisher Honored”. 2000-11-00. Retrieved 2013-03-26.