Recipient Year Nationality Notes Roberto Marinho 1987 Brazil Everwijn van Steeden 1987 England Emilio Azcárraga Milmo 1987 Mexico Diego Lucero 1987 Uruguay Pedro Ramírez Vázquez 1988 Mexico Karl-Heinz Heimann 1992 Germany Walter Lutz 1992 Switzerland Henry Kissinger 1996 United States Douglas Ivester 1996 United States Udo Jürgens 1996 Germany Fernand Sastre 1998 France Nelson Mandela 1998 South Africa Erwin Himmelseher 2000 Germany Kofi Annan 2002 Ghana Thaksin Shinawatra 2004 Thailand Robert Louis-Dreyfus 2006 France Otto Schily 2006 Germany Rudi Michel 2006 Germany Mohammed Yusuf 2008 Fiji Alpha Oumar Konaré 2008 Mali Thabo Mbeki 2010 South Africa