Former President Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been nominated as the winner of the 2025 Founders’ Sunhak Peace Award to be presented by the Sunhak Peace Prize Foundation in Seoul, South Korea.
Dr Jonathan becomes the third person and the first African leader to win this category of the Sunhak Award after former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Prime Minister of Cambodia, Mr Hun Sen.
The 2025 Award Ceremony, which is the 6th in the series, will take place in Seoul on Friday, 11th April 2025, where Dr Jonathan and other laureates will be honoured.
The Sunhak Peace Prize Committee stated that Dr Jonathan is being recognised with the Founders’ Prize because of his consistent mediation and pro-democracy activities to bring peace throughout Africa, especially through the organisations he chairs, including the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF), the West African Elders Forum (WAEF), and the International Summit Council for Peace (ISCP).
The Founders’ Sunhak Peace…