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The Goi Peace Award selection committee has
decided to award the 2003 Goi Peace Award to Dr. Robert Muller,
Chancellor Emeritus of the UN University for Peace and a former
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, in recognition
of his life work as a visionary leader and educator of peace.
The annual Goi Peace Award is presented to honor
individuals and organizations in various fields that have made outstanding
contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious
world for all life on earth.
Robert Muller was born in Belgium in 1923 and raised
in the Alsace-Lorraine region in France. He experienced constant
political and cultural turmoil during his youth, and knew the horrors
of World War II, of being a refugee, of Nazi occupation and imprisonment.
During the war he was a member of the French Resistance. After the
war he returned home and earned a Doctorate of Law from the University
of Strasbourg. In 1948 he entered and won an essay contest on how
to govern the world, the prize of which was an internship at the
newly created United Nations.
Dr. Muller devoted the next 40 years of his life
to working behind the scenes at the United Nations focusing his
energies on world peace. He rose through the ranks at the UN to
the position of Assistant Secretary-General. He has been called
the "Philosopher" and "Prophet of Hope" of the United Nations. Robert
Muller is a deeply spiritual person. From his vantage point of a
top level global states-person he saw a strong connection between
spirituality and the political/cultural scene.
Robert Muller created a "World Core Curriculum"
and is known throughout the world as the "father of global education."
There are 34 Robert Muller schools around the world with more being
established each year. The "World Core Curriculum" earned him the
UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1989. Based on this curriculum and
his devotion to good causes, Dr. Muller has recently drawn up a
"Framework for World Media Coverage" as a public service, as well
as a "Framework for Planetary and Cosmic Consciousness" and a "Framework
for the Arts and Culture."
Now in active "retirement," Dr. Muller is Chancellor
Emeritus of the University for Peace created by the United Nations
in demilitarized Costa Rica. He is in great demand to make speeches
to educational, environmental, spiritual and political conferences
around the world. Dr. Muller concentrates his efforts on promoting
greater human understanding and global awareness. He was recently
the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer International Prize for the
Humanities and the Eleanor Roosevelt Man of Vision Award. He is
also the author of fourteen books published in various languages.
Acceptance Message
from Dr. Robert Muller
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