Daniel Bar-Tal is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University. His research interest is in political and social psychology, studying socio-psychological foundations of intractable conflicts and peace making. Specifically, he has studied the evolvement of the socio-psychological infrastructure in times of intractable conflict that consists of shared societal beliefs of ethos of conflict, of collective memory, and emotional collective orientations. He has examined their contents, acquisition, functions, societal mechanisms of their maintenance and institutionalization, as well as their contribution to the formation of social identity and development of culture of conflict during the conflict. In this framework, he has also examined the changes required in this socio-psychological repertoire for conflict resolution and reconciliation. In particular, he has proposed a conceptual framework for the evolvement of reconciliation, for the development of peace education and eventually of peace culture, as well as development of political understanding among children, and peace education. Recently he has extended his scope of research to the study of the deterioration of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism. 

He has published (authored and edited) over twenty-five books and over two hundred and fifty articles and chapters in major social and political psychological journals, books and encyclopedias. He has served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology and has received various awards for his work, including the Alexander George Award of the International Society of Political Psychology for the best book in Political Psychology. In 2006 he also received the Peace Scholar Award of the Peace and Justice Studies Association for great scholarship and hard work in studying conflicts and peacemaking. In 1991 and again in 2009, he was awarded the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize of SPSSI, and he has received the Lasswell Award and the Nevitt Sanford Award of the International Society of Political Psychology and the Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Div. 48 of APA). In 2017 he was elected as a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2022-he received the award for the distinguished scholar by the Polish Social Psychological Society. 

The 2022 AHC is awarded to Daniel Bar-Tal, to honour his work on the social, psychological and political aspects of conflicts and conflict resolution.

Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers and appears as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals. He sits as an arbitrator in international investment disputes and the Court of Arbitration for Sport. 

He is author of Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008) and numerous academic books on international law, and has contributed to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times, The Guardian and the New York Times.

His most recent books are East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (2016) (awarded the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize, the 2017 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the 2018 Prix Montaigne) and The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (2020), also available as BBC and France Culture podcasts. His latest book is The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy(2022). 

Philippe is President of English PEN and a member of the Board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature.  

The 2022 AHC is awarded to Philippe Sands, for his work and commitment as a lawyer, focusing on the issue of genocides.

Ilham Tohti is a Uyghur economist, writer, and professor who is a co-founder of the website Uyghur Online, also known as Uyghurbiz, which aimed to promote understanding between Uyghurs and Han Chinese. Through the years of his work, he was threatened, beaten, house arrested multiple times, Chinese authorities shut down his website and arrested the people who wrote on it, but Tohti did not abandon his work.
After being prevented from leaving the country in 2013, his formal detention came in February 2014, and Tohti was charged with separatism and held incommunicado under inhumane treatment for months before he could meet his lawyer. On September 23, 2014, he is currently serving a life sentence under separatism related charges. He has been incarcerated incommunicado since 2017, with no access to his family or his lawyers.

Ilham Tohti has had received numerous international awards including the 2014 PEN/Freedom to Write Award, 2016 Martin Ennals Award, 2017 Liberal International’s Prize for Freedom, 2017 Weimar Human Rights Award. In 2018, Ilham Tohti was Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by 13 U.S law makers. 2019 Freedom House’s Freedom Award, 2019 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, 2019 European Parliament’s Sakharov Award, 2020 Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Human Rights Award, and in 2022, he was honored for Righteous in the Garden of Milan.

Up to 2022, Ilham Tohti has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 7 times.

The 2022 AHC is awarded to Ilham Tohti, to honour his commitment to defend the Ouighours in China. This prize also shows our support to the Ilham family as a whole, without news of Prof. Ilham since his arrest.

Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the objective of the IPCC is to provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC reports are also a key input into international climate change negotiations. The IPCC is an organization of governments that are members of the United Nations or WMO. The IPCC currently has 195 members. Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. For the assessment reports, experts volunteer their time as IPCC authors to assess the thousands of scientific papers published each year to provide a comprehensive summary of what is known about the drivers of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and how adaptation and mitigation can reduce those risks. An open and transparent review by experts and governments around the world is an essential part of the IPCC process, to ensure an objective and complete assessment and to reflect a diverse range of views and expertise. Through its assessments, the IPCC identifies the strength of scientific agreement in different areas and indicates where further research is needed. The IPCC does not conduct its own research.

The 2022 AHC is awarded to the GIEC for the time they volunteer to summarize the impacts of climate change, and the possibilities of adaptation to and mitigation of the effects of this major world crisis.

A Métis woman, Dr. Smylie, acknowledges her family, teachers, and lodge. Dr. Janet Smylie is a family physician and public health researcher.  She currently works as a research scientist in Indigenous health at St. Michael’s hospital, Lik Ka Shing Knowledge Institute where she directs the Well Living House Applied Research Centre (www.welllivinghouse.com ).  Her primary academic appointment is as a Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.  She maintains a part-time clinical practice with Inner City Health Associates at Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto. Dr. Smylie has practiced and taught family medicine in a variety of Aboriginal communities both urban and rural. She is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario, with Métis roots in the prairies.  Her applied research program is focused on actively addressing Indigenous health inequities by enhancing Indigenous led, high quality health information systems; disrupting anti-Indigenous racism in health services; and promoting Indigenous community health and wellbeing solutions.  Dr. Smylie currently leads multiple research projects in partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities/organizations. She was honoured with a National Aboriginal Achievement (Indspire) Award in Health in 2012, and is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

The 2022 AHC is awarded to Janet Smylie, to honour her work and commitment in the field of health and inequalities in particular in indigenous Canadian communities.

Boris Khersonsky was born in Chernivtsi in 1950. He studied medicine in Ivano-Frankivsk and Odessa. He initially worked as a neurologist, before becoming a psychologist and psychiatrist at the Odessa regional psychiatric hospital. In 1996 Khersonsky took on an appoint­ment at the department of psychology at Odessa National Univer­sity, before becoming chair of the department of clinical psychology in 1999. In the Soviet times, Khersonsky was part of the Samizdat movement, which disseminated alternative, nonconformist litera­ture through unofficial channels. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Khersonsky came out with seventeen collections of poetry and essays in Russian, and most recently, in Ukrainian. Widely regarded as one of Ukraine’s most prominent Russian-language poets, Kherson­sky was the poet laureate of the Kyiv Laurels Poetry Festival (2008) and the recipient of the Brodsky Stipend (2008), the Jury Special Prize at the Literaris Festival for East European Literature (2010), and the Russian Prize (2011).

The 2022 AHC is awarded to Boris Khersonsky, for embodying art as a response to conflicts, in particular in the current one in Ukraine.

Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, Maya-K’iche’ journalist, activist, and University professor from Guatemala.  Dr. Velásquez Nimatuj is an international spokeswoman for Indigenous communities in Central America and was the first Maya-K’iche’ woman to earn a doctorate in social anthropology in Guatemala.  Dr. Velásquez Nimatuj was also instrumental in making racial discrimination illegal in Guatemala and is featured in “500 Years: Life in resistance” (2017) a documentary about Indigenous resistance movements, for her role as an activist and expert witness in war crime trials.

Since 2003, Dr. Nimatuj writes a weekly newspaper column for el Periódico de Guatemala and has served on UN Women as a representative for Latin America and the Caribbean. The spring 2022, she joined to the Augsburg University where she teaches courses about Central America and South Mexico history and resistance, before joining CGEE’s team in Central America she was a visiting professor at the University of Oregon (2021-2022), at Stanford University (2019-2021); Brown University (2018-2019); Duke University (2017) and the University of Texas at Austin (2016); fall 2019 the Center for Latin American Studies,CLAS, at Stanford. She is part of a long line of struggle and resistance in her community since the Spanish invasion in 1524. 

She is the author of the books:  La pequeña Burguesía Comercial de Guatemala: Desigualdades de clasa, raza y género (2003),  Pueblos indígenas, Estado y lucha por tierra en Guatemala: Estrategias de sobrevivencia y negociación ante la desigualdad globalizada (2008), Lunas y Calendarios, colección poesía guatemalteca (2018) and « La Justicia nunca estuvo de nuestro lado » Peritaje cultural sobre conflicto armado y violencia sexual en el caso Sepur Zarco, Guatemala (2019) and with Aileen Ford, Acceso de las Mujeres Indígenas a la tierra, el territorio y lo recursos naturales en América Latina y El Caribe (2018).  In 2020 she was awardee with LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship.

The 2022 AHC is awarded to Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, to honour her lifelong commitment to the fight against racism, and for the recognition of indigenous peoples.