【2015 Sunhak Peace Prize】Anote Tong, President of Kiribati, and Dr. Modadugu V. Gupta

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The Sunhak Peace Prize Committee held the 'Inaugural Sunhak Peace Prize Ceremony' on August 28 at the Grand InterContintental Seoul Parnas Hotel. The inaugural Sunhak Peace Prize went to two laureates, His Excellency Anote Tong (age 63), President of Kiribati, and Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta (age 76), an Indian fisheries scientist. Each were awarded with a medal from founder Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, and a plaque from Committee Chairman Il Sik Hong.

Hon. Ui Hwa Chung, Speaker of the National Assemny of Korea, stated in his Congratulatory Address that, "along with national, regional, ethnic, and religious conflict, there are new global threats. such as climate change, appearing concurrently and threatening the hope for peace. Meanwhile, I believe that the vision of the Sunhak Peace Prize, which aims for a world in which the love for humanity and nature, and the community based on solidarity and communication, has big implications for us all."

Laureate President Anote Tong, the President of the Republic of Kiribati located in the South Pacific, one of the world's most vulnerable countries threatened by climate change, is spreading awareness to the international community of the need to control climate change. Even in the wake of the despair that his own country is being submerged under water within the next 30 years, His Excellency has taken the lead in protecting marine ecosystems by designating the world's largest marine park.

In 2006, President Tong worked with Conservation International to create the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), encompassing some of the most pristine and coral-rich waters on the planet. For Kiribati which relies heavily on income generated from licensing commercial fishing to foreign vessels, this was a moral decision to abandon national interest for the greater good.

Fellow laureate Dr. Modadugu V. Gupta is an Indian fisheries scientist who developed aquaculture technologies as an alternative to the future food crisis, and caused an explosive increase in fish production known to us now as the 'Blue Revolution.' As a researcher, he not only developed these technologies, but also disseminated them to those in extreme poverty throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, and other regions, considerably improving their nutritional status and self-sufficiency. In recognition of these achievements, he was awarded with the World Food Prize in 2005, known as 'the Nobel Prize for food and agriculture.'

Dr. Gupta is a saint of the South and Southeast Asian poor, who rather than give fish to the poor and hungry, taught them how to farm fish, cultivating a miracle of independence and self-sufficiency. He actively spread aquaculture methods to South and Southeast Asian women with low social status, resulting in not only increased household incomes and nutrition, but also drastically improved the social status and rights of women.

The Sunhak Peace Prize is awarded annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to the peace and well-being of future generations.
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