Zayed Award For Human Fraternity 2022 To Be introduced

The Zayed Award for Human Fraternity 2022 is predicted to be introduced within the subsequent fortnight, with an award rite to be hosted in Abu Dhabi and broadcast around the globe.  

 The winners of the distinguished award, now on its 2nd version, will obtain prize cash of $1 million to toughen the continuation in their paintings in selling peace, team spirit and intercultural discussion.  

 The award was once impressed by way of the signing of the Record on Human Fraternity by way of Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, in Abu Dhabi on 4 February 2019. The Pope and the Grand Imam have been designated as honorary recipients of the award when it was once established. 

 The record’s signing is now honored every 12 months on 4 February because the UN-recognized World Day of Human Fraternity. Previous this month, US President Joe Biden joined Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar to mark the anniversary with a choice for international cooperation within the combat towards the pandemic, local weather trade and different international crises.  

 Once a year, the winners of the Zayed Award are determined by way of a various and unbiased panel of mavens shaped by way of revered public figures from around the globe. This 12 months, the panel contains former President of the Republic of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou, Nobel Peace Laureate José Ramos Horta, and mavens in peacebuilding in addition to intercultural and interfaith discussion. The panel met ultimate month to choose the winners of the 2022 award from a pool of applicants put ahead by way of certified nominators.  

Judging committee member and chair of the Aladdin Challenge, Dr. Leah Pisar mentioned: “The values of tolerance, admire, and dignity articulated within the Record of Human Fraternity are crucial to growth and non violent coexistence, and far wanted within the present state of worldwide affairs. It’s certainly a privilege to be part of this jury, with one of these various and provoking pool of nominees.” 

Final 12 months, the award was once bestowed upon French-Moroccan activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten and UN Secretary Basic António Guterres.  

Secretary Basic Guterres determined to donate his percentage of the award, $500,000, to the United International locations Prime Commissioner for Refugees “to toughen its indispensable efforts to give protection to probably the most susceptible within the human fraternity, the forcibly displaced”.  

The opposite honoree, Latifa Ibn Ziaten, has used the prize to proceed her activism towards extremism since her son Imad’s tragic homicide all over the Toulouse and Montauban shootings in 2012.  

“This award is an acknowledgement that human fraternity should be nurtured, and not taken as a right. It was once humbling to be identified ultimate 12 months for paintings that I, like many others, have achieved to advertise tolerance and mutual working out in communities,” mentioned Ibn Ziaten. 

Named in honour of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the past due ruler of Abu Dhabi and founding father of the United Arab Emirates, the award celebrates his legacy of championing non violent coexistence. 

The award is organised by way of the Upper Committee for Human Fraternity, an unbiased frame tasked with advancing the values of human fraternity and provoking motion to advertise peace and working out.  

“This 12 months’s Zayed Award for Human Fraternity will likely be a focus of hope for our international at a time after we are rising from the darkness of the coronavirus pandemic,” mentioned Pass judgement on Mohamed Abdelsalam, the Upper Committee’s Secretary Basic. 

The rite for the 2022 award in birthday party of this 12 months’s honorees will likely be broadcast from Abu Dhabi in two weeks.