Kandić receives Schwarzkopf Europe Prize

Founder and Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (FHP) Nataša Kandić is this year’s recipient of the Schwarzkopf Europe Prize.

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Founder and Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (FHP) Natasa Kandic is this year’s recipient of the Schwarzkopf Europe Prize. Along with Kandic, Vesna Terselic, founder and director of the Dokumenta organization in Zagreb and Mirsad Tokaca, the founder and executive director of the Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo have also been recognized for their work. Kandic receives Schwarzkopf Europe Prize The award has been given out since 2003 to honor institutions and individuals from public life that have done something special to encourage European agreements, European integrations and the peaceful and responsible role of Europe in the world. The recipients are nominated by 200,000 young people from Europe every year, who pay their respects in that way to people they believe are doing something to shape the Europe of tomorrow according to the ideas and wishes of young people. The Heinz-Schwarzkopf foundation stated that Natasa Kandic, Vesna Terselic and Mirsad Tokaca were awarded “for their tireless efforts for peace and understanding in South-Eastern Europe”. “They contribute in an outstanding way to a stable future of the region. Their work raises our hope that the essential process of working-through the memories of the war on Balkans in the 1990s can be achieved. “We honor three people who are committed to bravely tell the truth about tremendous sorrow and injustice”, said the chairman of the jury Tobias Butow. The recipients will be presented with their awards in Berlin in December this year. Former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte is among those previously awarded.

Kandić receives Schwarzkopf Europe Prize

The award has been given out since 2003 to honor institutions and individuals from public life that have done something special to encourage European agreements, European integrations and the peaceful and responsible role of Europe in the world.

The recipients are nominated by 200,000 young people from Europe every year, who pay their respects in that way to people they believe are doing something to shape the Europe of tomorrow according to the ideas and wishes of young people.

The Heinz-Schwarzkopf foundation stated that Nataša Kandić, Vesna Teršelič and Mirsad Tokača were awarded “for their tireless efforts for peace and understanding in South-Eastern Europe”.

“They contribute in an outstanding way to a stable future of the region. Their work raises our hope that the essential process of working-through the memories of the war on Balkans in the 1990s can be achieved. “We honor three people who are committed to bravely tell the truth about tremendous sorrow and injustice”, said the chairman of the jury Tobias Butow.

The recipients will be presented with their awards in Berlin in December this year.

Former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte is among those previously awarded.

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