About Indira Gandhi Peace Prize:
- It was instituted in the memory of the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by a trust in her name in 1986.
- It is also known as the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development.
- It consists of a monetary award of 25 lakh rupees along with a citation.
- It is awarded annually to a person or organization without any distinction of nationality, race or religion, in recognition of creative efforts towards:
- Promoting international peace and disarmament, racial equality, and goodwill and harmony among nations;
- Securing economic co-operation and promoting a new international economic order;
- Accelerating the all-round advancement of developing nations;
- Ensuring that the discoveries of science and modern knowledge are used for the larger good of the human race; and
- Enlarging the scope of freedom and enriching the human spirit.
- 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).
