Awards

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Selected International Awards

• 1969 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership – Philippines
• 1982 King Baudouin Award for International Development – Belgium
• 1983 Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa – Emilio Aguinaldo Medical College, De La Salle University, Philippines.
• 1986 Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award, Brown University, USA
• 1990 Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India
• 1990 August Forrel World Temperance Award – Denmark
• 1992 Niwano Peace Prize – Japan
• 1995 IL-GA Award for Public Service – South Korea
• 1996 Soka University Award of Highest Honour
• 1996 Gandhi Peace Prize – India
• 2000 Moraraji Desai Peace Education International Award – India
• 2005 Global Peace Award – USA
• 2006 Acharya Sushil Kumar International Peace Award – Canada
• 2006 Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace – South Africa
• 2022 UNV 50 Country Awards Sri Lanka – A Lifetime Achievement Golden Award

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Selected National Awards

• 1986     Deshabandu Class 1 Award by President J.R. Jayawardene of Sri Lanka
• 1996     Vishva Prasadini Award by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka
• 2007     Sri Lankabhimanya Award by President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka
• 2017     A Memento by President Maitripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka

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