WE LIVE FOR PEACE BECAUSE OF LOVE

by: Dr. Evelyn T. Gusi
November 12, 2015

                The Gusi Peace Prize Foundation is cordially inviting you to attend our program of activities scheduled this month for the year 2015.

As a background, the Gusi Peace Prize is Asia's foremost award giving body and among the leading in the world today. In recognizing the most brilliant examples of those working toward the attainment of peace and respect for human life and dignity, the Gusi Peace Prize brings out the best of human achievements, ideals and values.

It is a charitable foundation, registered at the Security and Exchange Commission, whose main objective is to recognize and give proper recognition through the conferment of awards of excellence and distinction to individuals or groups worldwide who have distinguished themselves as brilliant exemplars of society or who contributed toward the attainment of peace and respect for human life and dignity with the following categories such as follows: Academe, Scientific Research and Discovery, Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Journalism, Statesmanship, Philanthropy or Humanitarianism, Economics, Cinematic Excellence, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Engineering Technology, Religion, Politics, Poverty Alleviation, Literature, Cultural Heritage, Internationalism, Architecture, Archaeology, Ecosystem and Biodiversity and Biology. It is mandated by Presidential Proclamation 1476, declaring “Every fourth Wednesday of November as the Gusi Peace Prize International Friendship Day”.  This year, it will be on November 25, 2015 at 5 pm at PICC.

The confirmed Gusi Peace Prize laureates for 2015 are as follows:

1. AUSTRALIA – Dr. Mary Pinder, Medicine [Intensive Care, Severe Acute

        Respiratory Syndrome {SARS}, and International Development]

2.  BANGLADESH –Hon. Shykh Seraj, Poverty Alleviation, thru Agriculture    Activism and Journalism

3. BELARUS – Former President Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich,                Statesmanship and Academe [Physics and Mathematics]

4 . CAMBODIA – HE Hun Many, son of PM Hun Sen, Youth Leadership

        and Humanitarianism

5. CHINA – Dr. Jeffrey Huang, Medicine [Hepatobiliary Surgery]: Organ                       Transplantation

6. CZECH REPUBLIC – Prof. Petr Blizkovsky, International Diplomacy                                 [Academic Work on Governance]

7. GEORGIA –Prof. Dr. Zurab Vadachkoria, Medicine: Academe & Research        on Maxilla-Facial Surgery; & Internationalization of Medical Education

 8. GERMANY- Prof. Dr.Hans Lehrach, Scientific Research [Human Genome &         Medical Systems Biology]

9. JAPAN – Dr. Syunji Sano [Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery]

10. KAZAKHSTAN – Prof. Dr. Zuriyadda Sakipova, Academe

11. KYRGYZTAN–Former President Askar Akayev, Statesmanship and

                Scientific Research [Applied Mathematics and Optics]

12. THE NETHERLANDS- Prof. Dr. Rob Verpoorte, Scientific Research

13.  PHILIPPINES-Miss NORA CABALTERA VILLAMAYOR [NORA AUNOR], INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE in Performing Arts [for Film, Stage, Television and for Music]

14. PORTUGAL- Former President Antonio Eanes, Statesmanship

15. QATAR- Hon. Ali Hamad Mohammed Said Efaifa, Poverty Alleviation:

        Providing Job Opportunities & Promoting Overseas Welfare

16. RUSSIA – Prof. Alexander Nikolaevich Chumakov, Philosophical Science

17. UKRAINE- Prof. Ivan Ivanovich Mazour, Engineering Sciences

        [Academe and Scientific Research on Engineering Ecology &

        Energy of the Future].

18. USA – Dr Susan Briggs, International Medical Surgical Response

As our country’s lone Gusi Peace Prize laureate representative for this year, Philippine Superstar Miss Nora Aunor is being recognized and awarded for her significant contributions and International Excellence in Performing Arts [for Film, Stage, Television and for Music].

The 2015 Annual Gusi Peace Prize International will be awarded at the Philippine International Convention Center on Wednesday, November 25, 2015. It will be attended by thousands of national and international dignitaries and delegates, who meet up together like an assembly of United Nations, to inspire others to be achievers and peacemakers, promoting world peace, friendship and goodwill, true to the vision of the Gusi Peace Prize International Foundation under the leadership of Chairman Barry Gusi. Indeed, the Philippines as a sovereign country, being Asia’s first republic, with its central location in the Far East, and dubbed as the “Crossroads of the Pacific”, and the “Pearl of the Orient Seas” has become the rendezvous of the East and West; the melting pot, that people from different parts of the globe look forward to visit in order to be part of the international event of the “Gusi Peace Prize”. After all, GUSI stands for Godliness, Unification, Service, and Internationalism.