PEACE AMBASSADORS
AWARDS GALA & GRAND BALL

A special gala awards ceremony will be held on Friday, September 26, 2025, at the closing ceremonies of the International Peace Festival (IPF), celebrating the laureats of the International Peace Alliance (IPA) 2025 Peace Merit Awards, including the IPA Leadership Awards, the IPA Peace Merit Awards and the IPA Film For Peace Awards.

The Peace Ambassadors Awards Gala and Grand Ball, a formal white-tie event, long gown and tiara charity gala, celebrates cultural diversity - honoring changemakers and promoting global harmony through the values of peace and culture diplomacy.

Step into an evening of elegance, impact, and celebration as we honor individuals making a difference in the arts, economic empowerment, and cultural leadership. Enjoy a fine dining experience, live cultural performances, keynote speeches, and the prestigious Peace Awards Ceremony while celebrating a world united in peace.

Our event will take place at the King Edward Hotel, 37 King St E, Toronto, Canada.

Friday September 26, 2025, starting at 6:00 pm.

PEACE MERIT AWARDS

The Celebrity Peace Ambassador Award is given annually by the International Peace Alliance to a celebrity who uses their fame and influence to make a real difference in the world. The purpose of the award is to honour a man or woman of peace with the Celebrity Peace Ambassador Award. The recipients are selected from personalities from the world of culture and entertainment who have stood up for human rights and for the spread of the principles of Peace and Solidarity in the world, and who made an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace.

The Honorary Award in the Arts celebrates artistic achievements that are not covered by existing Peace Merit Awards, although prior winners of the Peace Merit Award are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award. This award recognizes the specific nature of cultural and artistic work and the uniqueness of cultural and natural heritage conservation, protection and promotion as a critical contributor to peace. The award honours a man or woman whose exceptional artistic achievements, celebrate humanity, provoke the imagination, and encourage people to go further, by giving a new thrust in the regulation of unsafe social, economic and ecological practices, focusing on the development of more resilient conservation models and wide-spread approaches that balance the needs of human and natural habitats.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards in Film, Music, and the Arts are three special Peace Merit Awards that are awarded by the International Peace Alliance to professionals and performers who work in film, music, and other art forms and who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance in their chosen artistic field. These awards are given to men and women whose works explore the concept of peace through such categories as Space and Form, Qualities, Emotions/States, and People/Social and/or the centrality of peace as a cognitive and motivational subject through the use of local and universal symbols of peace within a variety of cultures and mediums.

FILM FOR PEACE AWARDS

Every film shown at the International Peace Festival | Festival International de la Paix is an extraordinary viewing experience. The Film For Peace Awards are prizes awarded by the International Peace Alliance (IPA) as part of its initiative to raise awareness for the social relevance of films.

Every year the IPA honors 10 films with a Best Film Merit Award, each film of which originates from a world region mostly aligned with the continent on which the country of film origin is located.

A Film of the Year Award is also conferred on a film selected for its valuable work in examining human behavior and promoting peace, culture, and justice in society.

Honorary Film Tribute Awards are also conferred on films by country of origin with the participation of the country's official diplomatic representatives.

All Award winners will be presented with an original award created by AB Crystal Collection at the Peace Ambassadors Awards Gala & Grand Ball held annually at the closing of the festival.