Civil Courage Prize

"The Civil Courage Prize is awarded annually by the Trustees of the Northcote Parkinson Fund. It honors civil courage – steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk – rather than military valor. The acts that the prize recognizes should have taken place deliberately, over time. It may be awarded posthumously. By increasing awareness of civil courage, the Fund's Trustees hope to encourage that virtue." [1] Since 2000, the Train Foundation has sponsored the international Civil Courage Prize.

Honorees to Date

• 2006 - Rafael Marques de Morais of Angola [2]
• 2005 - Min Ko Naing of Burma; Anna Politkovskaya of Russia; Munir Said Thalib (posthumous) [3]
• 2004 - Emadeddin Baghi of Iran; Lovemore Madhuku of Zimbabwe; Abdul al-Latif al-Mayah (posthumous) [4]
• 2003 - Shahnaz Bukhari of Pakistan [5]
• 2002 - Vladimiro Roca Antunez of Cuba (Gustavo Arcos Bergnes — Honorable Mention) [6]
• 2001 - Paul Kamara of Sierra Leone [7]
• 2000 - Natasa Kandic of the former Yugoslavia (Sergei Khodorovich - Honorable Mention)[8]

Prize Advisors

• Glenn R. W. Babb - former South African Ambassador
• Hodding Carter III - University Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Richard Gilder - Financier, Philanthropist
• Jeane J. Kirkpatrick - former United States Representative to the United Nations
• John Dimitri Panitza - Chairman of the Free and Democratic Bulgaria Foundation
• Nicholas Platt - Former US Ambassador to Zambia, the Philippines and Pakistan
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Sir Robert Wade-Gery - former British High Commissioner to India

Advisors Emeritus

• John Chipman - Director, The International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Robert P. DeVecchi - President Emeritus, International Rescue Committee
• Richard J. Goldstone - former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
• Kumi Naidoo - Secretary General/CEO of CIVICUS
• Claiborne Pell - former US Senator