Indira Gandhi Peace Prize

About Indira Gandhi Peace Price:

• The Indira Gandhi Peace Price, also known as the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development, was instituted in the memory of the former prime minister by a trust in her name in 1986.
• It consists of a monetary award of 25 lakh rupees along with a citation.
• The award is given to individuals or organisations who work towards ensuring international peace and development, ensuring that scientific discoveries are used to further the scope of freedom and better humanity, and creating a new international economic order.
• Past recipients of this award include:
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union (1987);
  • UNICEF (1989)
  • Jimmy Carter, former president of the US (1997)
  • UN and its secretary-general Kofi Annan (2003)
  • Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany (2013)
  • Indian Space Research Organisation (2014)
  • Former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh (2017)
  • Sir David Attenborough (2019)
  • Pratham NGO (2021)
  • Indian Medical Association and the Trained Nurses Association of India (2022)
  • Daniel Barenboim and Ali Abu Awwad (2023)

Q1: What is the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust?

The Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust was established in early 1985 to honour the life and propagate the legacy of India's martyred Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. The Trust manages the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum and a website, I Am Courage, with the URL indiragandhi.in, which provides an interactive platform about the life and times of Indira Gandhi. It also manages the annual Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, instituted in 1985, that has been awarded to 30 international personalities and institutions for outstanding work and achievements. 

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