The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India in honour of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime minister.
History It was established in 1965 and is administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to people "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world". The money constituent of this award is 2.5 million rupees.
Recipients The following people have received this award. No prize was awarded in 1986; between 1995 and 2003; and 2008; the last award was in 2009.
Year Recipient Country 1965 U Thant Burma 1966 Martin Luther King Jr. 1967 Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1968 Yehudi Menuhin 1969 Mother Teresa 1970 Kenneth Kaunda 1971 Josip Broz Tito Yugoslavia 1972 André Malraux 1973 Julius Nyerere 1974 Raúl Prebisch 1975 Jonas Salk 1976 Giuseppe Tucci 1977 Tulsi Mehar Shrestha 1978 Nichidatsu Fujii 1979 Nelson Mandela 1980 Barbara Ward 1981 Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal 1982 Léopold Sédar Senghor 1983 Bruno Kreisky 1984 Indira Gandhi (posthumous) 1985 Olof Palme (posthumous)According to Bhagavathi Vivekanandan: Global Visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt. International Peace and Security, Co-operation, and Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016, , p. 16, Palme received the award in 1987 (he died in 1986). 1987 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar 1988 Yasser Arafat 1989 Robert Mugabe 1990 Helmut Kohl 1991 Aruna Asaf Ali 1992 Maurice Strong 1993 Aung San Suu Kyi 1994 Mahathir Mohamad 1995 Hosni Mubarak 2003 Goh Chok Tong 2004 Qaboos bin Said 2005 Wangari Maathai 2006 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 2007 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson 2009 Angela Merkel
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