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Aga Khan gets David Rockefeller award 2012-11-18

Date: 
Sunday, 2012, November 18
Location: 
Source: 
Dawn, Pakistan

LAHORE, Nov 18: His Highness Karim Aga Khan has been awarded the internationally-acclaimed David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award 2012 in a ceremony held under the aegis of “University for a Night”, sponsored by Hashoo Foundation, Kim Samuel Johnson and Shell.

A press release by Hashoo Foundation says the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award is given each year to a personality for outstanding contribution in bridging social gaps and helping out civil society in strengthening the social fiber. This year’s event was held in Europe for the first time in which 155 renowned personalities from across the world were gathered in London.

This year participants joined Synergos' Founder and Chair, Peggy Dulany, in honouring the Aga Khan, Founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), with the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award. Rockefeller, in a letter to the Aga Khan, wrote: "Through the Aga Khan Development Network, you have leveraged the social conscience of Islam in ways that benefit people of all faiths, promoting tolerance, pluralism and broad-based development".

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is carrying out various projects in different countries around the world, including Pakistan.

In acknowledging the award, His Highness spoke about the importance of civil society in development. "As I have done my work over the past decades, I have concluded that one of the most important forces in development is civil society," he explained. "If you think about the countries around the world which have had fragile governments but which have still made progress, there are umpteen examples of countries which have made progress because they have had strong civil society."

The press release said that people like Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Queen Rania of Jordon and Bill Gates have won the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award before Aga Khan.


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