Confucius Peace Prize
| Confucius Peace Prize | |
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| Awarded for | Promotion of world peace from an Eastern, Confucian perspective; to declare China's view on peace and human rights to the world |
| Date | December 9, 2010 |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Presented by | Private committee |
| Reward(s) | US$15,000 |
| First awarded | 2010 |
| Currently held by | Robert Mugabe |
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| Traditional Chinese | 孔子和平獎 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 孔子和平奖 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Kǒngzǐ Hépíngjiǎng |
| Wade–Giles | K'ung3-tzu3 He2-p'ing2-chiang3 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Kung3 Dz3 He2ping2jyang2 |
| Jyutping | Hung2 Zi2 Wo4 peng4 zoeng2 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Khóng-chú Hô-pêng Chióng |
The Confucius Peace Prize (simplified Chinese: 孔子和平奖; traditional Chinese: 孔子和平獎; pinyin: Kǒngzǐ Hépíngjiǎng) is a Chinese alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize established in 2010 by the Association of Chinese Indigenous Arts in the People's Republic of China (PRC), in response to a proposal by business person Liu Zhiqin on November 17, 2010. The chairman of the committee said that the award existed to "promote world peace from an Eastern perspective", and Confucian peace specifically. The winner purportedly receives a cash prize of ¥100,000 RMB (US$15,000). Despite an attempt by China's Ministry of Culture to ban the prize in September 2011, the original organizers re-established in Hong Kong as the "China International Peace Research Center", awarding the prize to Vladimir Putin in November 2011, to Kofi Annan and Yuan Longping in 2012, to Fidel Castro in 2014 and Robert Mugabe in 2015. The Chinese government has denied having any connections with the prize.
The Confucius Peace Prize originated as a response to the announcement that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize; the awarding of the prize to Liu was viewed negatively in China, with some in the government arguing that Liu did not promote "international friendship, disarmament, and peace meetings", the stated goals of the Nobel Peace Prize. Competing groups staked claims to its founding, and some have links to the Ministry of Culture.
According to The New York Times, Liu Zhiqin, a Chinese banker, was the first to propose the prize, in a commentary in the Global Times. Liu's commentary stated, "The Nobel Peace Prize Committee won Liu Xiaobo while losing the trust of 1.3 billion Chinese people. They support a criminal while creating 1.3 billion 'dissidents' that are dissatisfied with the Nobel Committee, which is definitely a bad decision. ... China's civil society should consider setting up a 'Confucius Peace Prize', launching the evaluation and selection and finding the real Peace Prize winners from all over the world. This is the best opportunity for the Chinese to declare China's view in peace and human rights to the world."
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