SAKAI Peace Contribution Award
Activities eligible for the “SAKAI Peace Contribution Award”
The “SAKAI Peace Contribution Award” will recognize the future possibilities and ripple effects of the following activities as well as past achievements of the candidate.
Promoting unrestricted interchange of people, goods and information
Activities to stop confrontation and conflict before they begin by realizing an economically, mentally and culturally affluent society
- Economic and cultural exchanges
- Reconstruction of the economic infrastructure
- Market building
- Occupational training and human resources development
- Job creation
- Technical support in the fields of industry and agriculture
- Creating new industrial value and finding hidden industrial values
- Establishment of vital utilities
- Food and logistical assistance
- Regional and industrial development
- Support for community-building
Promoting the guarantee and enhancement of freedom, autonomy and independence
Activities to create a freer and more tolerant age by changing opposing viewpoints and differences of opinion into a diverse coexistence
- Promoting peace education
- Support for resettlement of refugees and returnees
- Support for democratization and governance
- Promoting reconciliation
- Support for reintegration of demobilized soldiers
- Historical and cultural exchanges
Promoting realization of a universal society and community
Activities to promote positive peace including human security as well as mental and cultural affluence, and to prevent confrontation and conflict
- Emergency humanitarian support
- Educational support
- Infrastructure improvement (roads, traffic, transportation, water services, health care, etc.)
- Support for the socially vulnerable (war sufferers, disaster victims, women, children, disabled persons, minorities, street children, etc.)
- Antiwar activities and activities aimed at denuclearization
- Eliminating landmines and unexploded ordnance
- Environmental protection activities