Judge Christopher Weeramantry Receives NAPF Lifetime Achievement Award

Citation from Award

On April 12, 2008, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Peace Leadership to Judge Christopher Weeramantry .

The Lifetime Achievement Award of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is presented to “outstanding individuals who have made significant long-term contributions to building a more peaceful world.”  Its purpose, like other Foundation awards, is to honor distinguished individuals and to shine a light on peace leadership as a model to inspire a larger societal commitment to peace and to help empower a new generation of peace leaders. 

http://www.wagingpeace.org/

Judge Weeramantry Awarded the 2007 Right Livelihood Prize

In an esteemed ceremony His Excellency Judge C. G. Weeramantry was awarded the prestigious Right Livelihood Prize (Alternative Nobel Prize) on 7th December 2007 at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.

Right Livelihood Award 2007

Citation from Award

“Christopher Weeramantry set up the ‘Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research’ in Sri Lanka in 2001. It rests on the three pillars of Peace Education, Cross Cultural Understanding and International Law as an Instrument of Peace. The work of the Centre covers all these aspects both locally and globally. In Sri Lanka, the Centre holds camps for school children and university students from different Sri Lankan backgrounds, in order to foster inter-cultural understanding. It also conducts lectures and seminars on these topics, sometimes by itself and sometimes in association with organisations like the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Centre has also produced detailed reports for the Sri Lankan Law Reform Commission on both the protection of witnesses and the compensation of victims of crime and terrorism.”

Judge C G Weeramantry conferred Sri Lanka's highest National Award - Sri Lankabhimanya

Judge C G Weeramantry was conferred Sri Lanka's highest National Honour the Sri Lankabhimanya ( The Pride of Sri Lanka) by His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapakshe on 1st December 2007.

Sri Lankabhimanya is the highest National Honour of Sri Lanka, it is the highest civil honour conferred for exceptionally outstanding and most distinguished service to the nation.

Judge receiving the Sri Lankabhimanya	Judge with the Sri Lankabhimanya Award

International References to WICPER’S work in awards to Judge Weeramantry

UNESCO Peace Prize 2006

Citation from Award

The citation of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize 2006 to the founder described the Centre as having "contributed to the promotion of peace education, human rights, intercultural education, social integration, interfaith understanding, environmental protection, international law, disarmament and sustainable development".