The awards include:
International Peace Prize established at the first World Congress of Peace held in April 1949, in Paris.[1] The original 1949 regulations envisaged prizes for art, literature, film, or industrial work which advanced the cause of peace among nations.[2] In 1951, the WPC recategorised three distinct awards:[1]
International Peace Prize, last awarded in 1957.[2]
Honorary International Peace Prize, for posthumous award.
Medal of Peace, renamed in 1959 the Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace,[2] in honour of Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who led the WPC till his death in 1958. This medal has been awarded in silver, but the highest WPC honour is the gold medal.
Ho Chi Minh Award, a leadership award established in honour of Ho Chi Minh (not to be confused with the Ho Chi Minh Prizes awarded by the Vietnamese government).
Amilcar Cabral Award, established in 1973 in honour of Amílcar Cabral, for contributions to “the struggle against imperialism and colonialism”.[3][4] (The Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau governments also award Amilcar Cabral prizes.)
The WPC was dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Many winners of its prizes have also won the Lenin Peace Prize, a separate prize awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government.
List of award winners:
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1954 Charlie Chaplin - United Kingdom
International Peace Prize [1]
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where does it gets its funding?
It wasn’t just “dominated by the Soviet Union”, it was a front, funded by the Russkies.
WORLD PEACE COUNCIL (WPC)
Was the Soviet Union’s major international front organization during the Cold War era
Placed all the blame for the nuclear arms race on Western war-mongering
Cast American “imperialism” as the chief obstacle to world peace
Was funded chiefly by the USSR, until the Soviet collapse of 1991
See also: U.S. Peace Council
Founded in Prague during a 1949 “Peace Congress” sponsored by the USSR and its Eastern European satellites, the World Peace Council (WPC) was the Soviet Union’s major international front organization during the Cold War era. Operating under the joint control of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the KGB, the Council sought to influence public opinion and government policies in non-Communist countries along lines that promoted Soviet policy goals. Toward that end, WPC focused on placing all the blame for the nuclear arms race on Western warmongering.
WPC first set up its offices in Paris but was expelled by the French government in 1952 for allegedly engaging in “fifth column” activities. After relocating to Prague and then to Vienna, the Council was banned by the Austrian government in 1957 but continued to operate covertly in Vienna as the International Institute for Peace. In 1968 the Council re-assumed its original name and moved its headquarters to Helsinki, Finland, where it remained until 2000, at which time it relocated again to Athens, Greece.
In 1978 the House Intelligence Committee released a major CIA report that identified WPC as a Soviet front group. Subsequent government reports and State Department documents continued to echo that claim.
In 1979 WPC characterized the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a reaction to Chinese and U.S. aggression against Afghanistan.
By the end of the 1980s, WPC claimed to represent more than 2,000 participating parties and movements from 140 countries around the world, but fully 90 percent of its $40 million annual budget was supplied by the Soviet Union. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, this funding largely dried up, causing WPC to dramatically scale back its operations across the globe. As of December 2011, the Council maintained a presence in just 20 countries.
Today WPC describes itself as “an anti-imperialist, democratic, independent and non-aligned international movement of mass action.” Its guiding principles and objectives are:
opposition to “Imperialist wars and occupation of sovereign countries and nations”
“prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction”
“abolition of foreign military bases”
“total and universal disarmament under effective international control,” including a reduction of conventional arms
“elimination of all forms of colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination”
“respect [for] the territorial integrity of states”
“non-interference in the internal affairs of nations”
“establishment of mutually beneficial trade and cultural relations based on friendship and mutual respect”
“peaceful co-existence between states with different political systems”
“negotiations instead of use of force in the settlement of differences between nations”
“the dissolution of military blocks and pacts” — most notably NATO, responsible for “60 years of crimes against humanity in dozens of countries”
“the withdrawal of foreign troops” from wherever they are stationed around the world
“the establishment of a new international economic order,” founded on the redistribution of wealth
“a just solution of the problem of foreign debt”
“support of the liberation movements”
Casting American “imperialism” as the chief obstacle to the realization of the foregoing goals, WPC boasts that it has “organized many protest demonstrations against U.S. interventions in Colombia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua and invasions of Grenada and Panama”; “opposed both Gulf Wars and the war on Afghanistan”; “condemn[ed] vehemently the [American] blockade against Cuba and … U.S. interventions in the internal affairs of that country”; and “insist[ed] that the U.S. government and other Imperialists stop their attempts to overthrow the legitimate government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.”
WPC also contends that the Arab-Israeli conflict can only be resolved by “a just, two-state solution” authorizing the creation of “an independent State of Palestine within the borders of 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
WPC is a registered NGO member of the United Nations. One of its affiliates is the U.S. Peace Council.
For additional information on WPC, click here.
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What’s really annoying and frustrating is that whenever you attempt to research some commie group or individual, you have to go through 10-15 pages of search results to find a source that isn’t liberal or far left. It happens with both Yahoo and Google.
I very rarely use Google.