The Kluz Prize for PeaceTech 2023 celebrates, recognizes, and propels the groundbreaking use of emerging technologies in fostering peace, reducing conflict, and safeguarding human dignity and universal human rights across the globe.
The first Kluz Prize for PeaceTech 2022 was awarded to Juan Carlos Lucero, Co-Founder of the Magnolia Foundation, to further his organization’s School of Peace, a multidisciplinary approach to teaching peace, mediation, and rehabilitation.
The award grants selected winner $20,000 to support their achievements and further activities and development of their project in the emerging field of technologies for peace. The Selection Committee will consist of the founding donor, and a group of distinguished international experts and recognized leaders in the fields of peace, technology, investments, and international affairs.
This year, the award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, September 20th, on the eve of the International Day of Peace during the 78th United Nations General Assembly.
The Kluz Prize for PeaceTech is an initiative to celebrate, distinguish, and promote the use of new technologies in fostering peace, reducing conflict, and protecting human dignity and universal human rights across the globe. The Prize is dedicated to individuals, organizations, or initiatives for their distinguished achievements in peacebuilding, peacemaking, peacekeeping, or peace enforcement efforts. The goal of the Prize is to engage individuals, societies, and states in building up a local, national, and global PeaceTech movement.