Nomination of candidates

All prize winners are chosen by the foundation’s board of trustees, which makes its decisions independently. The board of trustees welcomes nominations from the general public – an individual, however, cannot nominate themselves. Nominations require a detailed explanatory statement including a description of the accomplishments and publications justifying the individual’s candidature for the Peace Prize.

The members of the Peace Prize foundation’s board of trustees are:

• Klaus Brinkbäumer (Hamburg)
• Dr. Nadja Kneissler (Verlag Delius Klasing, Hamburg)
• Prof. Dr. Karl-Josef Kuschel (Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen)
• Felicitas von Lovenberg (Piper Verlag, München)
• Prof. Dr. Ethel Matala de Mazza (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
• Bascha Mika (Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt am Main)
• Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, (Hermann Schmidt Verlag, Mainz), Chairwoman of the board of trustees as President of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association