Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

The Luxembourg Peace Prize for Outstanding Youth Peacemaker seeks to recognize either a person who creates an absence of war or forges a culture of peace or someone who pursuits a career in peace building.

  • Individual
  • Male or Female, alive, < 35 years
  • Activities create peace defined as direct peace building, either creating an absence of war, or as creating a culture of peace, or as pursuing a career in peace building activities
  • Global coverage over the years
Nadia Alexandria Kendall

Nadia Alexandria Kendall

2024 Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

Nadia Alexandria Kendall, an academic and activist, leads the “Hidden Disability Inclusion” program at We Belong Europe, advocating for neurodivergent individuals’ inclusion and equal opportunities in the workplace.

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Nicolas Maggi Berrueta

Nicolas Maggi Berrueta

2022 Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

Nicolas, a self-taught violinist from a poor background, gained national and international recognition for his music. He is now dedicated to creating a music conservatory in Uruguay to provide children from low-income backgrounds with access to music education.

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Boniface Mwangi

Boniface Mwangi

2020/2021 Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

Boniface Mwangi, a photographer and activist, created Picha Mtaani, a traveling photo exhibition, after witnessing the 2008 Post-Election Violence in Kenya. It attracted over 2 million visitors, fostering reflection, dialogue, and reconciliation.

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Franck Katschunga

Franck Katschunga

2017 Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

Franck Katshunga is the founder of Peace Education, Elembo+, which focuses on maintaining unity and peace between Congolese, Africans, and all the people of the world.

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Asma Khalifa

Asma Khalifa

2016 Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

Asma is a co-founder at Tamazight Women Movement, a think/do tank that is working on gender equality and research on the Indigenous women of Libya and North Africa.

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Omar Aboubaker

Omar Aboubaker

2016 Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

Omar was acknowledged to be an International Ambassador of Peace by the Universal Circle of the Ambassadors of Peace during the Youth World Peace Forum in Cairo in 2015.

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Outstanding Environmental Peace