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The Global Dialogue Prize
The Global Dialogue Prize is an award for "outstanding achievements in the advancement and application of intercultural value research." Intercultural dialogue on values is the key to intercultural understanding, a primary social good of our times. The prize is motivated by the insight that intercultural dialogue on values, which poses special demands on the interlocutors, requires the participation of scholars from around the globe. Scholars who have an in-depth understanding of several cultural traditions and value systems can assist the public in coming to grips with diversity of cultural values (including religious, existential, moral, or political values). The Global Dialogue Prize is awarded to individuals, institutions, or organizations. It "serves exclusively scholarly and cultural purposes and shall foster research communication among scholars in intercultural value studies from around the world." Even though the Global Dialogue Prize is a research award, it is not 'academic' and primarily honors "research that creates a tangible precedent in the field of dialogical praxis: whether in international cultural policy, international management, responsible journalism, intercultural education, and in organizing intercultural ‘grassroots activities.’"

The Global Dialogue Prize is one of the world's most significant awards for research in the Humanities.

Inaugural bestowal in 2009/10
The Global Dialogue Prize was awarded for the first time in 2009/2010, supported by the Poul Due Jensen's Foundation, Aarhus University, and the City of Aarhus, Denmark. In October 2009 the International Award Committee nominated [|Dariush Shayegan] and [|Mohammad Khatami] as joint winners of the inaugural Global Dialogue Prize for "for their work in developing and promoting the concept of a 'dialogue among cultures and civilizations' as new paradigm of cultural subjectivity and as new paradigm of international relations". In January 2010 Mohammad Khatami stated that he "is not in the position to accept the award" and the prize was bestowed on Dariush Shayegan alone.