March 25th, the sixth annual Dr. Karl A. Lamers Peace Prize essay contest is being launched. The winner of the prestigious contest will receive a 1000 Euro check. The second place winner will be awarded 600 Euros, and 400 euros will go to the author of the third-best essay.

Prof. h.c. Dr. Karl A. Lamers is a former long-time member of the German Bundestag and the former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He is also an honorary doctor and an honorary professor of MRU, and a long-time vigorously committed friend of our university.

Celebrating Dr. Lamers' commitment to security issues and work in the security area, the Dr. Karl A. Lamers Peace Foundation was founded in 2018. The Foundation maintains, that, for decades, Dr. Lamers has been considering very important to strengthen the relations between Lithuania and Germany and to foster Lithuania’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic community.

The Dr. Karl A. Lamers Peace Foundation organizes and funds student writing on security and peace contests in the universities of various countries in the EU, including the essay competition at the MRU.  The first Peace Prize Competition at MRU was launched five years ago, in 2019.

This year, for the sixth annual Peace Prize competition, students must write an essay on the following topic: "Do NATO states continue to have enough willpower and strategies to help Ukraine to stop Russia and what are the prospects of Ukraine's NATO membership?". 

The contest officially begins on March 25th, 2024, the day of the announcement of the competition. The deadline is July 31, 2024.

Essays should be written in English and not exceed 3,000 words. Text should be submitted in Word document format, Calibri 12 points fonts. Harvard-style referencing and a literature list is recommended. Essays should be submitted to: Peace.prize@mruni.eu

All MRU students enrolled in Bachelor's and Master's Degree programmes by March  25th, 2024, the day when competition was announced, are qualified to participate. All Erasmus and international exchange students are also invited to participate and are qualified to do so.

Any questions about the competition should be sent to Peace.prize@mruni.eu, or directly to Virgis Valentinavicius, MRU’s coordinator of the Competition at: virgis.valentinavicius@gmail.com

More detailed information and requirements are enclosed in the attached original "Call for Papers” Issued by the Dr. Lamers Peace Foundation.

 

(info supplied by MRU Assoc. Prof. Dr. Virgis Valentinavičius, Lecturer at the Institute of Communication and MRU’s Chair of the Lamers Peace Prize Essay Contest)