Alternative Nobel Prize
The Right Livelihood Award, commonly called in French "Alternative Nobel Prize" recognizes individuals or organizations who work and seek practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges of our world today. A jury decides prices from themes such as protection of the environment , the human rights , the sustainable development , health, education, peace ...
Created in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull , the award is presented each year, usually nine in December. Financial reward (equivalent to 250 000 ) is shared among the winners, usually four.
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Nobel Prize and "Alternative Nobel Prize"
The name of the Prize, Right Livelihood, which translates into French as "right livelihood" refers to the fifth point of the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism , which teaches that each individual is accountable and must take only one equitable share of resources of the earth , moved to the Nobel Foundation to establish two new price-Environment and Human Development, to honor those who do not fit into the dominant ideology .
The founders of the "Alternative Nobel Prize" want to highlight the fact that "the greatest benefit to mankind" can be found in different fields of science or traditional strict categorizations: the "Alternative Nobel Prize" is intended to complement critical to the Nobel Prize. Consequently, the foundation of the "Alternative Nobel Prize" chose December 9 as a day of awards in Parliament of Sweden , the day before the Nobel ceremony. For Jakob von Uexkull, "it is no coincidence of course, this is cause every time a debate on the priorities of our society" .
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation, the foundation of the "Alternative Nobel Prize", also note how the Nobel Prize has rarely rewarded for females or people from "countries of the South" (Third World LDCs ).
In 2009, the "Alternative Nobel Prize" was awarded 137 times to persons or associations from 58 countries, often working at the local and concrete. The purpose of the foundation is to grant a reward to find the groundwork and create a global platform to analyze the existing solutions.
Principles
The Foundation is a politically independent, non-ideological , set up so that its voice is heard winners. It is supported by individual donations from different countries. The Foundation's partner organizations in the United States, Germany and Switzerland.
According to its statutes, the objective of the Foundation, through the presentation of the Right Livelihood Awards, to promote scientific research, education, public understanding and practical activities that:
- contribute to a global ecological balance,
- designed to eliminate material poverty and spiritual
- contribute to sustainable peace and justice in the world.
The jury is trying to balance prices between men and women, from North and South . The winners' share the personal courage and worked for social transformation, "says Jakob von Uexbull .
Benefits
The "Alternative Nobel Prize" may be understood as "the price of right livelihood" . The winners, men and women, lay the groundwork for a new relationship between humans and nature.
"Instead of resigning, to suffer, to resolve the fate, the pioneers of the Alternative Nobel Prize have been deeply touched by the suffering of men, the necessity of ecosystems, the horror of war. So profoundly affected, it was for them simpler, more positive and healthy to take action to remedy the intolerable than to continue to be mere spectators. Their anger and despair, often repressed, have been powerful engines for them to change: ability to be affected by the state of the planet has opened the heart of compassion. The action is motivated by love of the world and not by hatred of the powerful. Compassion is equivalent to no longer consider the world's problems with a distant look, just fair, but to rely on emotional reactions and subjective "
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They are carrying "project of hope" , whose goal is a "quality life" for the world, and not for a privileged few. They have three common qualities: "put forward new visions, identify patterns and make innovation possible" .
Often against the grain, or in hopeless situations, these winners have breached and are, in the words of Jakob von Uexkull, the "possibilistic" .
Winners
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References
Notes
- In November 2009, statistics for the award of Nobel Prize winning show 40 to 766 winners, less than 5% of women. ( Nobel Prize ).
- "The mere incentive to" think different "with an original form of questioning is highly political but not ideological.". To understand the meaning of these two qualifiers, see the article by Yves Struck. Francosemailles 2002
- "There are far too many ways to be pessimistic and too many problems to be optimistic. I always say you are possibilistic, Jakob von Uexkull cited in von Lpke erlenwein and 2008-p 14 "
References
- (En) von Lpke / Erlenwein the "Nobel" AC, 13 portraits of winners, La Plage, Sete, 2008
- Other sources
- a and b Jakob von Uexkull talking about the Alternative Nobel Prize 2004
- a , b and c Olivier Truc, "Jakob von Uexkull, alternobliste", Le Monde, 10 December 2005.
- Exhibition EDA, Lille, March 2008 2008
- Article by Edward Gomez San Francisco Chronicle 2006
Related articles Bibliography
- (En) Geseko Lpke and Peter von Erlenwein, "Nobel" AC, 13 portraits of winners, La Plage, Sete, 2008, 213 p. ( ISBN 978-2842211912 ), p. 5-26
Other sources
Sites in French
- (En) Yves Struck, " The Book Youth can help find a political culture out of ideology? ", in: Website on Foreign Sites
- (In) Ulla Plon, " Got His Eyes on the Prize ", in: Website on External Links
- (In) Ulla Plon, " Got His Eyes on the Prize ", in: Website on External Links
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