{"id":12080,"date":"2018-02-24T07:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=12080"},"modified":"2019-10-10T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T11:31:22","slug":"adyan-foundation-in-lebanon-to-get-35th-niwano-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=12080","title":{"rendered":"Adyan Foundation in Lebanon to Get 35th Niwano Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EDUCATION FOR PEACE . <\/p>\n

A press release from the PR News Wire<\/a><\/p>\n

The Niwano Peace Foundation will award the 35th Niwano Peace Prize to the Adyan Foundation in\u00a0Lebanon\u00a0in recognition of its continued service to global peace-building, notably its development of a program for children and educators offering guidance to peace and reconciliation for those affected by the Syrian war.<\/p>\n

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An award presentation ceremony will take place in\u00a0Tokyo\u00a0on\u00a0May 9\u00a0at\u00a010:30 a.m.\u00a0In addition to an award certificate, the foundation will receive a medal and a cash prize of\u00a020 million yen.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Adyan responded to the Syrian crisis by offering interfaith mediation dialogue and peace education to vulnerable Syrian citizens both in\u00a0Lebanon\u00a0and\u00a0Syria. In 2016, Adyan started intensive work in\u00a0Iraq\u00a0to build the capacities of journalists and civil society activists in spreading the values of inclusive citizenship and inter-religious solidarity, and healing the society from its ISIS traumatism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In selecting Adyan as a recipient for 2018, the Niwano Peace Prize Committee said the foundation has been “a visible and committed actor for peace” in\u00a0Lebanon\u00a0and elsewhere in the\u00a0Middle East\u00a0region, focusing on both high-level and grassroots engagement, “demonstrating the inclusive and interfaith values\/principles the Niwano Award seeks to recognize.”<\/p>\n

Niwano Peace Prize:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2028The Niwano Peace Foundation established the Niwano Peace Prize to honor and encourage individuals and organizations that have contributed significantly to inter-religious cooperation, thereby furthering the cause of world peace, and to make their achievements known as widely as possible. The foundation hopes in this way both to enhance inter-religious understanding and cooperation and to encourage the emergence of still more persons devoted to working for world peace. The prize is named in honor of the founder and first president of the lay Buddhist organization Rissho Kosei-kai, Nikkyo Niwano.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are CPNN articles about some of the previous winners of the Niwano prize:<\/p>\n

2016 – Center for Peace Building and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka, to receive the Niwano Peace Prize<\/a><\/p>\n

2015 – Esther Abimiku Ibanga, Founder of The Women Without Walls<\/a><\/p>\n

2014 – Dena Merriam, Founder and leader of The Global Peace Initiative of Women<\/a><\/p>\n

2012 – Rosalina Tuyuc Velasquez: Constructing an Inclusive Guatemala<\/a><\/p>\n

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EDUCATION FOR PEACE . A press release from the PR News Wire The Niwano Peace Foundation will award the 35th Niwano Peace Prize to the Adyan Foundation in\u00a0Lebanon\u00a0in recognition of its continued service to global peace-building, notably its development of a program for children and educators offering guidance to peace and reconciliation for those affected … Continue reading Adyan Foundation in Lebanon to Get 35th Niwano Peace Prize<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,74],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-12080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-for-peace","category-mideast","tag-mideast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}