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Fulbright Association
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Suite 525
Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: (202) 347-5543
Fax: (202) 347-6540

The J. William Fulbright Prize for
International Understanding

Selection Criteria

The J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding honors the largest and most significant educational exchange program in history, as well as the career and spirit of its creator, the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas.

The Fulbright Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding contributions toward bringing peoples, cultures, or nations to greater understanding of others.  Considered for the Prize will be individuals, groups, or organizations whose contributions have made a substantial impact in breaking through the barriers that divide humankind.

In administering this Prize, the Fulbright Association and its cooperating international and U.S. associates seek:  (1) to provide substantial recognition to those who dedicate their energies to improving international understanding and (2) to encourage new generations to undertake life commitments to international understanding.

Requirements:

  1. The nominees may be living individuals, a cohesive team or group of individuals working in identical or closely related fields, organizations, or institutions.

  2. The achievements may be either specific in time or may reflect a long period of significant and continuing work.

  3. The work of nominees must have positively affected people of other countries and cultures as well as their own. 

  4. Nominees may be citizens or residents of any country.

  5. Nominees, under normal circumstances, must be in sufficiently good health to attend the award ceremony, to present a substantive address on their work and aspirations, and possibly to give one or more lectures as appropriate.

The Fulbright Prize laureate will be selected in a nondiscriminatory manner.

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