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{{Infobox award<br />
| name = The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding<br />
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| subheader = International Civilian award for contributions to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world<br />
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| sponsor = [[Government of India]]<br />
| firstawarded = 1965 <br />
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| reward = {{INR}} 2.5 million<br />
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| holder_label = Most recent winner<br />
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| award1_type = Total awarded<br />
| award1_winner = 36<br />
| award2_type = First winner<br />
| award2_winner = [[U Thant]]<br />
| award3_type = Last winner<br />
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The '''Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding''' is an international award presented by the [[Government of India]] in honour of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the country's first prime minister.<br />
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==History==<br />
It was established in 1965 and is administered by the [[Indian Council for Cultural Relations]] (ICCR) to people "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world". The money constituent of this award is 2.5 million rupees.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.iccrindia.net/jnaward.html |title= Nehru Award |publisher= [[Indian Council for Cultural Relations]] |access-date= 2 April 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130404145613/http://www.iccrindia.net/jnaward.html |archive-date= 4 April 2013 |url-status= dead }}</ref><br />
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==Recipients==<br />
The following people have received this award. No prize was awarded in 1986 and between 1995 and 2003; the last award was in 2009.<ref name="Nehru Award Recipients">{{cite web | url=http://iccr.gov.in/content/nehru-award-recipients | title=Nehru Award Recipients | publisher=Government of India | work=Indian Council for Cultural Relations | access-date=8 October 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815011210/http://iccr.gov.in/content/nehru-award-recipients | archive-date=15 August 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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! Year !! Recipient !! Country<br />
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| 1965 || [[U Thant]] || [[File:Flag of Burma (1948-1974).svg|25px]] [[Burma]]<br />
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| 1966 || [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] || {{USA}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1967 || [[Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]] || {{PAK}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1968 || [[Yehudi Menuhin]] || {{USA}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1969 || [[Mother Teresa]] || {{IND}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1970 || [[Kenneth Kaunda]] || {{ZMB}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1971 || [[Josip Broz Tito]] || [[File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|25px]] [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]<br />
|-<br />
| 1972 || [[André Malraux]] || {{FRA}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1973 || [[Julius Nyerere]] || {{TZA}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1974 || [[Raúl Prebisch]] || {{ARG}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1975 || [[Jonas Salk]] || {{USA}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1976 || [[Giuseppe Tucci]] || {{ITA}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1977 || [[Tulsi Mehar Shrestha]] || {{NPL}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1978 || [[Nichidatsu Fujii]] || {{JPN}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1979 || [[Nelson Mandela]] || {{ZAF}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1980 || [[Barbara Ward]] || {{GBR}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1981 || [[Alva Myrdal]] <br> [[Gunnar Myrdal]] || {{SWE}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1982 || [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]] || {{SEN}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1983 || [[Bruno Kreisky]] || {{AUT}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1984 || [[Indira Gandhi]] (posthumous) || {{IND}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1985 || [[Olof Palme]] (posthumous)<ref>According to Bhagavathi Vivekanandan: ''Global Visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt. International Peace and Security, Co-operation, and Development.'' Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016, {{ISBN|978-3-319-33710-4}}, [https://books.google.de/books?id=GO8mDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 p. 16], Palme received the award in 1987 (he died in 1986).</ref> || {{SWE}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1987 || [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]] || {{PER}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1988 || [[Yasser Arafat]] || {{PSE}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1989 || [[Robert Mugabe]] || {{ZWE}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1990 || [[Helmut Kohl]] || {{DEU}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1991 || [[Aruna Asaf Ali]] || {{IND}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1992 || [[Maurice Strong]] || {{CAN}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1993 || [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] || {{MMR}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1994 || [[Mahathir Mohamad]] || {{MYS}}<br />
|-<br />
| 1995 || [[Hosni Mubarak]] || {{EGY}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2003 || [[Goh Chok Tong]] || {{SGP}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2004 || [[Sultan Qaboos]] || {{OMN}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2005 || [[Wangari Maathai]] || {{KEN}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2006 || [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] || {{BRA}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2007 || [[Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson]] || {{ISL}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2009 || [[Angela Merkel]] || {{DEU}}<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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