List of Winners

1st Prize

Children's category (1 entrant)
    Making Friends with Diversity in Globalized Societies
Adam Moscoe (Canada, Age 14)

Youth category (1 entrant)
    Let’s drink black-and –white, discrimination –free, multi-cultural coffe!
Grosu Luciana (Romania, Age 18)

2nd Prize

Children's category (2 entrants)
     Learning to live together: promoting tolerance and diversity in globalized societies
Fatimah Jejelola Sanni (Nigeria, Age 14)
    Kindness and Courage
Soh Yu (Korea, Age 11)

Youth category (2 entrants)
    Building the Defences of Peace in our Minds
Yoko Bizen (Japan, Age 24)
    Learning to live together: promoting tolerance and diversity in globalized societies
Mustapha Omotolani Mariam (Nigeria, Age 23)

3rd Prize

Children's category (5 entrants)
    Are we really that different?
Nadezhda Neusypina (Russia, Age 11)
   Beginning with “Xie Xie” Thank You
Erina Suzuki (Japan, Age 12)
    Enabling World Peace
Rebecca N. Drobinski (U.S.A., Age 11)
    Learning to live together: promoting tolerance and diversity in globalized societies
Babington Omotola (Nigeria, Age 13)
    World peace is impossible!
Clara (Jung-Hyun) Kim (Korea, Age 14)


Youth category (5 entrants)
    Compassion as the way to manage Rage
Anton Gramovich (Belarus, Age 17)
    Dare to Question, Dare to be Human
Lina Al-Ejeilat (Jordan, Age 23)
     Le grand village de la tolerance
Andriamahefa Nirosoa Malalatiana (Madagascar, Age 21)
    Reaching the sky together
Jacqueline Dekkers (The Netherlands, Age 17)
    Creating an intercultural community
Alice Wellum (Germany, Age 21)

Honorable Mention

Children's category (25 entrants)
         Eri Buten Murakami (Japan & Canada, Age 8)
         Marah Medhi Al-Abduwani (Oman, Age 9)
         Satoko Sato (Japan, Age 11)
         Weilu Shen (China, Age 12)
         Yu Hangaishi (Japan, Age 12)
         Sonomi Yamaguchi (Japan, Age 12)
         Saori Yoshida (Japan, Age 12)
         Rachitha Shashani Vitharana (Sri Lanka, Age 12)
         Amanda Dickens (U.S.A., Age 13)
         Ozioko Chidiogo (Nigeria, Age 13)
         Chukwulete Emmanuel Chinonso (Nigeria, Age 13)
         Chivukula Deepika (Nigeria, Age 13)
         Harika Rayala (India, Age 13)
         Lana Chebib (Canada, Age 13)
         Lisa Liang (U.S.A., Age 13)
         Afrah Saleem (India, Age 14)
         Amna Javed (Pakistan, Age 14)
         Onyeneke Steve Chima (Nigeria, Age 14)
         Christina Dacruz (Mauritius, Age 14)
         Zilfimyan Tatev (Armenia, Age 14)
         Doulin Xu (Canada, Age 14)
         Hazura Bazeer (U.K., Age 14)
         Manami Hirose (Japan)
         Pema Dorjee (Tibet, Age 14)
         R. A. Thilini Prasangika Randeni (Sri Lanka, Age 14)

Youth category (25 entrants)
         Saurabh Signh (India, Age 15)
         Bushra Gul Siddiqi (Pakistan, Age 15)
         Monika Sobočan (Slovenia, Age 15)
         Kayoko Suzuki (Japan, Age 17)
         Hanifa Asra Silmi (Indonesia, Age 17)
         Svetlana Per’kova (Russia, Age 17)
         Chimay Posavec (U.S.A., Age 17)
         Tomohiko Amanuma (Japan, Age 18)
         Alexey A. Korenev (Russia, Age 18)
         Poteeram Yashvind Kumar (Mauritius, Age 18)
         Pong Shi Min (Singapore, Age 18)
         Garin Çavusyan (Turkey, Age 19)
         Gregory Otieno (Kenya, Age 19)
         Jacqueline Furtado (Australia, Age 20)
         Ng Pin Quan (Singapore, Age 21)
         Cheow Sze Chyi (Malaysia, Age 21)
         Brian R. Dickson (Canada, Age 21)
         Lovin Rama Chandra Sharma Kasseeah (Mauritius, Age 21)
         Cameron Karsten (U.S.A., Age 22)
         Yanto Jakop (Singapore, Age 22)
         Ilene N. Manchera (The Philippines, Age 23)
         Christa Anna Neubacher (Switzerland & Austria, Age 23)
         Fatima Mourad (Australia & Lebanon, Age 23)
         Olaniyi Solomon Adebayo (Nigeria, Age 24)
         Kai Neptune (U.S.A., Age 25)

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