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(http://www.montessori.it/english/montessoricentenary.htm).
During the Montessori Centenary Conference, the 5th edition of the Montessori International Award "Education and Peace" will take place. The Award will be given to physical persons, entities, companies, associations that have rendered themselves particularly worthy of this recognition, by concrete educational action towards the spread and development of the idea of a peace-making individual, building up a new model for mental development that forsakes the concepts of dishonesty and oppression in favour of solidarity and brotherhood, to give equal growth of all populations in their diversity. The Montessori International Prize "Education and Peace" will have a value of Euro 5.165,00. The names of candidates must be received not later than September 30, 2006 and must be addressed to the Secretary for the award, c/o: Opera Nazionale Montessori - Via di San Gallicano, 7 - 00153 Rome - e-mail: info@montessori.it, complete with documentation and motivation.
- "Open House" (1998) an educational centre
in Israel where Arab and Israeli youths share a common educational
experience in peace and brotherhood. On that occasion, the president
of the Italian republic, not only agreed to sponsor the Award, but
offered a special Award of the Italian presidency in the form of
a Silver plaque to the memory of young Iqbal Masih, a heroic Pakistani
boy who was killed on account of his struggle against juvenile labour
and exploitation of human beings; - "Tibetan Children's Villages" of Dharamsala
(2000), founded by the Dalai Lama, currently hosts 2,500 children
and youth, most of them orphans or children of displaced parents; - "Comunità di Sant'Egidio" (2002)
was given the Award in particular for the project "Schools
of peace". The Community was founded in 1968 in Rome by high
school students who were initially committed to create people's
schools open to everybody but especially to migrant youths and emarginated
young people. In the "Schools of peace" education was
proposed as a choice and fulfillment of individual needs as well
as group's needs; it's a kind of education that does not separate
nor devide, on the contrary it enables believers and non-believers
or believers of various religions to grow together; - "Don Vito Misuraca" (2004) and his Christian
Orphanage "Mere du Verbe" in Remera a quarter of Kigali
in Rwanda. Here in the middle of the nineties the community gave
shelter to children and young people who escaped the genocide. The
institution currently hosts over 600 children and youths that survived
the racial destruction. For more information
Best regards. Opera Nazionale Montessori |
A
Montessori Centenary Conference which will be carried out on 6th
and 7th January 2007 in Rome, in cooperation with AMI, celebrating
the 100 anniversary of the birth of the "Casa dei bambini"
in San Lorenzo 
In
previous editions the prize was awarded to: