The 2015 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, call for renewed global efforts to tackle the climate crisis, secure the rights of indigenous and LGBTI communities, and put an end to war. The four Laureates receive their awards at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm on Monday.
Gino Strada, Italian surgeon who co-founded EMERGENCY—an NGO that has provided medical assistance to 6.5 million people in war-torn countries around the world, called for a global coalition for the abolition of war: “War, just like deadly diseases, has to be prevented and cured. Violence is not the right medicine: it does not cure the disease; it kills the patient.”
“A massive movement— gathering hundreds of million citizens over the years, decades and centuries—changed the perception of slavery: today we repel the idea of human beings chained and reduced to slavery. That utopia became true. A world without war is another utopia we cannot wait any longer to see materialized,” Doctor Strada said.
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