The FELIX HOUPHOUET- Boigny Peace Prize

The Felix Houphouet Biogny Peace Prize is intended to honour living individuals and active public or private bodies or institutions that have made a significant contribution to promoting, seeking, safeguarding or maintaining peace in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and the Constitution of UNESCO.

The prize comprises a cash award of 150,000 United Stares Dollars, a gold medal and a peace diploma and is awarded every year to one or more prizewinners by an International Jury.

The Secretariat for Coordination of the Peace Process (SCOPP) together with the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO (SLNCU), have submitted a nomination of the officers from the Health and Education Ministries, who had been deployed in the conflict ridden North and East of Sri Lanka, for this peace prize.

The behaviours of the Ministries of Health and Education, who have, on principle strived hard to ensure the essential services and its officials, who have and continue to risk their lives daily, to serve in the former and current war torn areas held by the LTTE in the Northern and Eastern regions of Sri Lanka, therefore justly fall within the aforementioned parameters of building peace. 

UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the popularization of Science 2009

The prize is an international distinction to reward the efforts of a person who has had a distinguished career as writer, editor, lecturer, radio/ television programme director or film producer, which has enabled him/her to help to interpret science, research and technology to the public. He/ she is expected to have knowledge of the role of science, technology and general research in the improvement of public welfare, the enrichment of the cultural heritage of nations and the solutions to the problems of humanity.

Nominations or Application from individuals will not be accepted and the application form should be submitted in four sets in English or French, comprising the following items:

A biographical statement of the candidate, a list of his/her published works and a summary of his/her career as a popularizer of science. Supporting documents such as principle publications, books, articles, monographs, tapes or video-cassettes should be supplied in five copies, for distribution among jury members.

The deadline for submission of nominations is 15^th May 2009. It is kindly requested that nominations be submitted to the Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO not later than 30^th April 2009 for onward transmission to UNESCO Paris.