1 million euro prize will reward research in ‘secure tolerance’

European Jewish leader Dr. Moshe Kantor announces during a conference in Monaco a 1 million euro prize for “secure tolerance.”

The Kantor Prize for Secure Tolerance, launched at the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, will reward “exceptional achievements in research and advanced thinking on ‘Secure Tolerance’” in order to help Europeans act against impending threats to their security and human rights, Kantor says in a statement.

Kantor is president of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation. He also serves as president of the European Jewish Congress.

Kantor says that more and more Europeans are feeling excluded as a result of the rapid technological and societal changes that have swept the Continent. “Many, especially in Europe, feel disenfranchised and unable to have access to the benefits of these changes so they seek out simplistic solutions which, rather than really address their problems, placate them through nationalism, populism and extremism,” he says. “We can either sit around or wait passively for the next conflagration, economic depression or war or we can seek to build new models for a tolerant society, benefiting all in full security.”