Section: “Peace, Solidarity and Inclusion”.

Winner: Comunità Sant’Egidio

The Sant'Egidio Community (Rome) is a Catholic-inspired movement dedicated to peace, the poor and prayer. Admirable is the effort to promote integral human development so that disadvantaged people, domestically and from across borders, are free to prosper and live in dignity. Community combines, in its inspiration and action, the fundamental prerequisites of the Award: protection of others and the common good. The activities date back to the key concept implemented for over half a century: promoting development and helping those forced to flee, at home and abroad, from hunger and violence. By concretely demonstrating that the notions of "us" and "our" must enrich the concepts of "I" and "mine", Sant'Egidio shows the fundamental virtue of living together: consideration of the dignity of others.