Peace & Reconciliation
August 14, 2008: The 2008 ATLANTA 1996 Peace & Reconciliation Through Sports and Education (PARSE) Prize
The Peace & Reconciliation Through Sports and Education: The PARSE prize recognizes people who have accomplished, and still strive to bring, peace and reconciliation through sport and education. This is definitely not a lifetime achievement award. PARSE recognition is meant to be a commendation of the highest order that not only rewards past achievement, but also inspires, motivates, and challenges the recipient to reach deeper into the concepts that are embodied by the ultimate ideals of Peace, Education, and the Olympic Movement. Therefore, the ATLANTA 1996 created the PARSE prize directly from the ATLANTA 1996 Mission Statement: Peace & Reconciliation Through Sports and Education!”.
The first 6 recipients of the 2008 Parse Prize are:
Mr. Mario VÁZQUEZ RAÑA (Mexico)
General Lassana PALENFO (Ivory Coast)
HRH Prince Feisal AL HUSSEIN (Jordan)
Dean GREENAWAY (British Virgin Islands)
Joel BOUZOU (France)
Essar GABRIEL (Lebanon/France)
Funded by the Atlanta 1996 Centennial Foundation and Matching Funds (Atlanta, GA)