UNESCO Artist for Peace


UNESCO Artists for Peace are international celebrity advocates for the United Nations agency UNESCO. This category of advocate is intended to heighten public awareness in addition to the categories UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO Special Envoy and UNESCO Champion for Sport. The programme started in 1995.

Current list

The following is a list of current UNESCO Artists for Peace:
NameCountrySinceLink
Kudsi ErgünerTUR10 July 2016
Alsou AbramovaRUS
Franghiz Ali-ZadehAZE3 April 2008
Amri AminovTJK2008
Relja BašićCRO6 October 2004
Shirley BasseyUK
Marisa BerensonITA
Chico BouchikhiFRA
Sarah BrightmanGBR8 February 2012
Brenz BandGER3 February 2005
Sayon CamaraGUI21 June 2003
Lauren ChildUK12 December 2008
China Disabled People’s Performing Art TroupePRC31 July 2007
Joaquín CortésESP
Manu DibangoCMR27 May 2004
Céline DionCAN11 September 1999
Earthsavers DREAMS EnsemblePHI29 September 2003
FrankétienneHAI24 March 2010
Gilberto GilBRA1999
Juan Luís GuerraDOM15 September 2008
Valery GergievRUS31 March / 1 April 2003
Zaha HadidUK24 June 2010
Alain Husson-DumoutierFRA
Sumi JoKORApril 2003
Missa JohnouchiJPN21 August 2006
Dani KaravanISR
Cyprien KatsarisFRA
CYP
Guila-Clara KessousFRA
Marcel KhaliféLBN7 June 2005
Countess Setsuko Klossowska de RolaJPN7 January 2005
Amine KouiderAlgeria
Titouan LamazouFRA12 March 2003
Gong LiPRC
Tania LibertadPER
The Philippine Madrigal SingersPHI
Serguei MarkarovRUS12 December 2002
Milton MasciadriUruguay
Maria de MedeirosPOR17 March 2008
Ino MirkovićCRO
N. Scott MomadayUSA12 May 2004
Ahlem MosteghanemiAlgeria16 December 2016
Georges MoustakiFRA
Mariana NicolescoROU21 Novembeber 2005
Eijin NimuraJPNOctober 1998
Ali Mahdi NouriSudan
Danilo PerezPanama
Bibi RussellBAN
Jordi SavallESP17 June 2008
Márta SebestyénHUN1 June 2010
Theodosii SpassovBUL16 October 2017
Hedva SerFRA18 October 2011
Vladimir SpivakovRUS7 November 2006
Boris TrajanovMKD24 February 2005
Patricia VelásquezVEN11 June 2003
Venezuela Children Symphonic OrchestraVEN
Gérard VoisinFRA7 July 2005
World Orchestra for PeaceUK
Miyako YoshidaJPN21 July 2004
Zhang Jun PRC
Elisso BolkvadzeGEO