The Student Peace Prize

Through the Students Peace Prize, students in Norway want to focus on those students and student organizations throughout the world that bravely fight suppressing and non-democratic governments. They are doing an important, but often dangerous effort. The Student Peace Prize seeks to acknowledge these efforts done by students in struggle.

Students in Norway are fortunate to have the opportunity to get education, and to have student democracy. Therefore, we want to give support and encouragement to those students who have to fight for their rights and who are willing to risk their lives to give other students a better future.

Thorvald Stoltenberg, President of the Norwegian Red Cross, and member of the Student Peace Prize committee in 2003 said, when awarding the Student Peace Prize: “This is an award to students who work for freedom and democracy everywhere.

The Student Peace Prize is awarded by the Student Peace Prize Committee on behalf of students in Norway.