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IVAN SUPEK - HUMANIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY
HONORARY LIFELONG PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF HUMANISTS
The HUMANIST of the 20th Century, theoretical physician, philosopher, novelist, dramatist. He was the founder of the Pugwash movement in Croatia and an editor of the Encyclopedia Moderns. Academician Ivan Supek initiated the establishment of the International League of Humanists. Himself and Philip Noel Baker (Noble Peace Prize Winner), Linus Pauling (Noble Prize Winner for Chemistry and Peace), Ava Pauling, Sophia Wadia, Aurelio Peccei (President of the Rome Club) met in Dubrovnik in 1974 and wrote the well-known Dubrovnik Declaration which later became a basic material for the World's Humanist Unity Congress held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1976. Ivan Supek chaired the Congress and was elected President. At the World Congress of the Humanists Unity in 1998, in Sarajevo, he was elected as life-long honorary President. He was proclaimed as the humanist of the 20th Century and winner of the highest humanistic award for peace, the charter “LINUS PAULING”
HONORARY LIFELONG PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF HUMANISTS
The HUMANIST of the 20th Century, theoretical physician, philosopher, novelist, dramatist. He was the founder of the Pugwash movement in Croatia and an editor of the Encyclopedia Moderns. Academician Ivan Supek initiated the establishment of the International League of Humanists. Himself and Philip Noel Baker (Noble Peace Prize Winner), Linus Pauling (Noble Prize Winner for Chemistry and Peace), Ava Pauling, Sophia Wadia, Aurelio Peccei (President of the Rome Club) met in Dubrovnik in 1974 and wrote the well-known Dubrovnik Declaration which later became a basic material for the World's Humanist Unity Congress held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1976. Ivan Supek chaired the Congress and was elected President. At the World Congress of the Humanists Unity in 1998, in Sarajevo, he was elected as life-long honorary President. He was proclaimed as the humanist of the 20th Century and winner of the highest humanistic award for peace, the charter “LINUS PAULING”
