Focusing on advancing world understanding and peace, the award seeks to inspire, encourage and stimulate more Rotarians to be personally involved in humanitarian service, as well as to gain public recognition for Rotarians and RI as significant contributors to humanitarian service. First presented in 1981, the award has been received by 15 individuals and three organizations.
All nominations are to be kept confidential.
The winner of the Rotary Award for World Understanding and Peace will be announced, and the award presented, at the 2001 RI Convention in San Antonio, Texas, USA, on June 24-27. All projects proposed by the recipient must first be approved by the RI Board of Directors. In fact, there never was any Rotary club in Russia until 1990, and Rotary's presence in the country in the last decade cannot therefore be referred to as a revival. Rattakul is the chairman of the 2000-01 Diplomatic Relations Task Force. We regret these errors.