The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2019 and 2020 made history in which way?
- Both were the first joint awards given to two foreign heads of state simultaneously
- The 2019 award was the first given to a recipient from the Middle East
- Both were awarded posthumously — the first posthumous awards in the prize's history, announced together in March 2021
- The 2020 award was given without any formal jury meeting, directly by the Prime Minister
Answer: Both were awarded posthumously — the first posthumous awards in the prize's history — and both were announced together in a single jury meeting in March 2021
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman (2019) and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh (2020) were both awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize posthumously. Qaboos had died in January 2020; Mujibur Rahman had been assassinated in 1975. The jury met on 19 March 2021 and selected both recipients in one session — the 2019 and 2020 awards were announced together. This was the first time the prize had been given posthumously in its twenty-six-year history.