The Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize
Islam focuses on securing peace in every sphere of human activity. It encourages all to promote education, respect and tolerance, improve social and interfaith harmony, support charitable causes and serve humanity regardless of race, creed or colour.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community is dedicated to establish peace at all levels and to protect the basic human rights of all. In light of this it is keen to recognise efforts made by anyone to advance the cause of peace.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace is therefore awarded in recognition of an individual’s or an organisation’s contribution for the advancement of the cause of peace.
The prize was launched at the 2009 UK Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention), by His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The award comprised a trophy together with a certificate and a monetary prize.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace that will be presented at the 2023 National Peace Symposium.
-
2023 Winner
David SpurdleDavid Spurdle was a teacher from Hornchurch, when he visited Lebanon in 1983, during the Lebanese civil war, and saw first-hand the suffering of children who were in dire need of help. He committed to caring for 60 orphaned boys and founded Kids Alive UK that later became Stand by Me to help care for the kids. Since then, the charity has rescued over 20,000 kids across 11 countries, the Charity helps by providing shelter, food, education and healthcare for children.
-
2022 Winner – Tadatoshi Akiba
-
2020 Winner – Adi Roche
-
2019 Winner – Barbara Hofmann
-
2018 Winner – Dr Fred Mednick
-
2017 Winner – Dr Leonid Roshal
-
2016 Winner – Mrs Setsuko Thurlow
-
2015 Winner – Hadeel Qasim (Iraq)
-
2014 Winner – Sindhutai Sapkal
-
2013 Winner – Magnus-MacFarlane-Barrow
-
2012 Winner – Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei
-
2011 Winner – SOS children’s villages UK
-
2010 Winner – Abdul Sattar Edhi
-
2009 Winner – Lord Eric Avebury