The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics

Description:

The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest is designed to challenge college students to analyze urgent ethical issues confronting them in today's complex world.  This award id open to undergraduate juniors and seniors enrolled full time during the Fall 2007 semester at accredited colleges or universities in the United States.  Detailed information (including topics, guidelines and entry forms) is available on the Foundation's website, www.eliewieselfoundation.org.

Suggested topics for the 2008 contest:

• What does your own experience tell you about the relationship between politics and ethics and, in particular, what could be done to make politics more ethical?
• Articulate with clarity an ethical issue that you have encountered and analyze what it has taught you about ethics and yourself.
• Carefully examine the ethical  aspects or implications of a major literary work, a film or a significant piece of art.
• Clearly analyze the relationship between religion and ethics in today's world.
• How does a recent political or cultural event shed light on the ethics of rebellion/revolution?

Award:

There will be five awards varying from $500 - $5,000.

How to apply:

Applications and detailed instructions can be obtained at the website listed above.

Deadline:

Completed applications for the 2008 contest must be received by December 7, 2007.  Send essays with a completed entry form to following address:

The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
555 Madison Avenue -20th  Floor
New York, NY 10022