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His Royal Highness was officially invested as Crown Prince to the Hashemite Throne of Jordan, in 1965. Until the changes in succession brought about by His late Majesty King Hussein, he served as the King’s confidant and deputy. He co-founded the International Cultures Foundation in 2002 and the Parliament of Cultures in 2004. In 2003, HRH launched Partners in Humanity as a joint initiative with Search for Common Ground, which aims to promote dialogue between the Muslim and Western worlds. Prince Hassan is a founder and now President of the Foundation for Inter-religious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD) which was established in Geneva in 1999.
Sir William Deane served as Australia’s Governor-General for six years during the period 1995–2001. He has consistently spoken out in support of social justice, in defence of disadvantaged groups, and in support of meaningful reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Deane was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1982, Companion of the Order of Australia in 2001, and in the same year was awarded the Sydney Peace prize.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a pro-democracy activist and leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy. She is a widely known as a prisoner of conscience and is currently being held in detention in relation to her opposition to Burma’s military dictatorship. This detention by the military junta has prevented her from assuming her position as democratically elected Prime Minister of Burma. Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, the Rafto Prize and Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990, and the Jawaharlal Peace Prize by the Government of India in 1992.
Desmond Mpilo Tutu of South Africa is Anglican Archbishop Emeritus, activist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace (1984), the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism (1986) and the Ghandi Peace Prize (2007). He has been especially vocal in campaigning for improvements in human rights, poverty, racism and AIDS. In particular, he gained worldwide recognition for his anti-apartheid work in the 1980s. Tutu was the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Anglican Church of South Africa and headed South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Dr Bernard Lown is an internationally renowned peace activist and a Professor of Cardiology at Harvard School of Public Health. He co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility and later International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. His work against nuclear proliferation led him to receive a Nobel Prize for Peace in 1985. Lown was born in Lithuania and immigrated to the USA at the age of thirteen.
Lowitja O’Donoghue is a Professorial Fellow at Flinders University, the founding chairperson for the now dissolved Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and was the first Australian woman to awarded the Order of Australia. In 1983 she was appointed a commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 1998, and the Royal College of Nursing. In 1984 she was named Australian of the Year. Among her honorary roles, she holds and Honorary Doctorate of Law from Notre Dame University and the Australian National University.
Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) is a Bengali Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, becoming the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He is a former honorary president of Oxfam. He is currently the Lamont University Professor at Harvard University. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.
Dr Jose Ramos-Horta is President of East Timor; he is the country’s second president since its independence. During the country’s occupation by Indonesia, Ramos-Horta served in exile as the spokesperson for the East Timorese resistance. After independence, he became East Timor’s first Foreign Minister, before resigning in June 2006 and later being appointed Prime Minister by President Xanana Gusmão. Ramos-Horta was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace (along with East Timorese Bishop Carlos Belo) in 1996.