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Delta Prize for Global Understanding

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The Delta Prize for Global Understanding, presented annually by Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia, recognizes individuals or groups whose initiatives have helped promote world peace as well as globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures. Such efforts can include grassroots projects that diminish hostilities in a particular part of the world, international programs that promote communication or trade among different peoples, and/or leadership that inspires global cooperation and peace.

The prize includes a $10,000 cash grant and an original work of art designed by Barbara Mann and Gary Lee Noffke of the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art [1].

Laureates

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Year Person Country
1999 Jimmy Carter United States
Rosalynn Carter
Carter Center
2000 Desmond Tutu South Africa
2001 Mihail Gorbachev Russia
2002 Sadako Ogata Japan
2004 Václav Havel Czech Republic
2005 Gertrude Mongella Tanzania
2006 Ted Turner United States
2007 Nelson Mandela South Africa
2008 Martti Ahtisaari Finland
2009 Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt
2012 Roméo Dallaire Canada
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