Alyn Ware receives the Right Livelihood Award

Alyn Ware receives the Right Livelihood Award, also known as Alternative Nobelprize. Congratulations from the IALANA!

2009 Right Livelihood Awards: "Wake-up calls to secure our common future"

The Right Livelihood Award Jury gave the following motivation for its choice of laureates:



"Despite the scientific warnings about the imminent threat and disastrous impacts of climate change and despite our knowledge about solutions, the global response to this crisis is still painfully slow and largely inadequate. At the same time, the threat from nuclear weapons has by no means diminished, and the treatable diseases of poverty shame our common humanity."

Alyn Ware (New Zealand) is recognised "for his effective and creative advocacy and initiatives over two decades to further peace education and to rid the world of nuclear weapons".

see: rightlivelihood.org/ware.html