"Bono joins a distinguished history of laureates, and the recognition is well deserved," said John Bader, Fulbright Association Executive Director. "The purpose of the Fulbright Prize is to recognize those who promote peace through greater understanding among peoples, cultures, and nations, and there's no doubt that Bono embodies the best of leadership in times of unrelenting global crises and challenges." Baldwin, Fulbright Association Board Chair and Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. "We're honored to recognize and celebrate Bono's commitment to fighting injustice, extreme poverty, the global AIDS crisis, and more recently, the disparities in the global COVID-19 response," said Justice Cynthia A. This year, Bono will be donating his $50,000 award to ONE and (RED). The Prize also directly benefits the charitable priority of the Laureate. Past Prize Laureates include Nelson Mandela, Bill and Melinda Gates, Desmond Tutu, President Bill Clinton, and Chancellor Angela Merkel amongst many others. The Prize focuses on and rewards outstanding contributors to bringing cultures, nations and peoples together. And though he won't have time to rest on his laurels, there's no one who deserves this award more than he does." "So, we will still need Bono to keep up his advocacy work in the months and years ahead. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, who introduced Bono. While affordable treatments have brought HIV/AIDS under control, a new pandemic left Africans at the back of the queue for vaccines," said Dr. "The causes Bono has devoted himself to remain all too relevant today. And I ask you tonight as both fanboy and critic: Can you still hold that tune?" Even if he missed the full expression of it, in Ireland we felt its pull. " William Fulbright talked about 'the magnetism of freedom', though he was selective about it. I had a sense of America's wrestling with itself, caught in the act of becoming… becoming itself… becoming its better self. America isn't classical music, America is punk rock, America is hip-hop. I felt it was an idea, if not yet a fact. I don't know how, but I seemed to know that America wasn't just a country. They shaped the struggle for civil rights and women's rights and gay rights. "We knew that because you wrote them down, you cited them, you held yourself to account on them.
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