UWTSD Director of global peace institute awarded Schengen Peace Foundation and Luxembourg Peace Prize

Scherto Gill, Professor of Research and Director of Global Humanity for Peace Institute, has been awarded the Schengen Peace Foundation and Luxembourg Peace Prize.

Professor Gill receive the 2022 Outstanding Inner Peace award for “her pre-eminent efforts and initiatives to promote peace” at a ceremony held in the historical Schuman Building in Luxembourg on Friday, 17 June.

Scherto Gill is the Director of the UNESCO Initiative on Collective Healing, Social Justice and Global Well-Being and is also Senior Fellow at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, a board member of Spirit of Humanity Forum, and is a Trustee of Rising Global Peace Forum.

She is a member of  the editorial board of a number of journals, including International Journal for the Study of Spirituality. She chairs the G20 Interfaith Forum’s Education Working Group and is a Life Fellow of Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

On receiving her award, Scherto said: “It is such an honour to be awarded 2022 Luxembourg Peace Prize. This is a recognition of the important work that the UWTSD's Global Humanity for Peace Institute has been doing."

As a researcher, Scherto’s interests centre on understanding peace, human well-being and global flourishing as dynamic processes. The key concepts she is developing with colleagues include positive peace, human-centred education, relational evaluation in education, holistic well-being, deep dialogue, collective healing, and collaborative governance. Scherto has been actively exploring ways to apply these ideas in peacebuilding, educational innovation, community regeneration, and social transformation.

Scherto has published extensively in the fields of education, well-being and peace, including Lest We Lose Love (forthcoming, Anthem Press) Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education (Oxford University Press), Ethical Education: Towards An Ecology of Human Development (Cambridge University Press), Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: A Transformative Vision for Human Well-Being (Routledge), and Understanding Peace Holistically (Peter Lang).

For the tenth consecutive year, the Schengen Peace Foundation and the World Peace Forum has awarded prestigious Luxembourg Peace Prize to outstanding peacemakers and activists. The award comes is aligned with the efforts of the Schengen Peace Foundation, founded in 2005, and approved in 2007 by His Royal Highness Grand Duke Henri, as a Peace Think Tank, supporting peacebuilding.

In the ‘Spirit of Schengen,’ the Schengen Peace Foundation initiated the World Peace Forum, a global platform for peace activists and peace initiatives. The annual multi-disciplinarian event of the World Peace Forum connects peace activists from around the world to meet, exchange ideas and together achieve greater impact.

In 2012, the Luxembourg Peace Prize was first introduced as an award to outstanding peacemakers. Laureates first received a bronze medal depicting Nelson Mandela. Since 2017, Laureates receive a sculpture of a three-legged chair by the Columbian artist Duvan Lopez, for which we are the fourth leg of the chair at the table to build peace.

Schengen Peace Foundation and the World Peace Forum have presented the Luxembourg Peace Prize annually since 2012. Between 8 and 13 awards are given each year to organizations and individuals in categories ranging from peace activists to environmental peace.

2022 Luxembourg Peace Prize Categories/ Laureates

Outstanding Peace Activists - Dr Kevin Clements and Aminatou Haidar

Outstanding Peace Education - Gaia Education

Outstanding Peace Efforts - City of Barcelona

Outstanding Peace Technology - Frances Haugen

Outstanding Youth Peacemaker - Nicolas Maggi Berrueta

Outstanding Peace Support - Dominicus Rohde

Outstanding Inner Peace - Professor Scherto Gill

Outstanding Sports for Peace - The Barca Foundation

For additional information on the Luxembourg Peace Prize, the World Peace Forum, or the Schengen Peace Foundation please visit www.LuxembourgPeacePrize.org and http://worldpeaceforum.org