1993
SPECIAL HONOR
AWARD LAUREATE
Ming-Min Peng 彭明敏
Dr. Peng
was born in Taichung Taiwan in 1923. He graduated form National Taiwan
University with a degree in Politics; from MacGill University, Canada with a
Masters Degree in Law, and from Paris University with a Ph.D. in Law. He was a
professor of Politics at National Taiwan University, a research fellow at
Michigan University, president of FAPA, and chairman of Asia Pacific
Democratic Association.
Special Achievement
Dr. Peng is an authority in international space law. During
the period of martial law in Taiwan, he launched the "Declaration of Taiwanese
Self-Rescue" with his students, Hsieh Tong-Ming and Wei Ting-Chao, to advocate
political reconstruction of Taiwan. Thus he was arrested and put into prison.
After he was released due to world opinion, he fled to Sweden, and then to the
US. He has devoted himself to the political reconstruction movement in the
past thirty years, and is the most respected pioneer of the Taiwan democratic
movement.
