The Spanish Jesuit Jesus Maria Alemany received on December 15th, the Human Rights Award 2011 in the category “people”. The General Council of Lawyers in Spain represents 166,000 lawyers in our country and gives the award. Jesus Maria Alemany will receive this award, for “devoting his life to promote education, respect for human rights and culture of peace through the Pignatelli and the Foundation Center Research Seminar for Peace in Zaragoza “. His teaching and research has moved on border issues between theology and society, culture and justice, as well as culture of peace and analysis of international relations, publishing dozens of papers in these fields.

Jesus Maria Alemany was born in 1938 in Zaragoza and entered the Society of Jesus in 1955 being ordained in 1968. He was director of Centre Pignatelli in Zaragoza (1972-1975), and currently chairs the Foundation “Research Seminar for Peace” in Zaragoza. He has been director since the beginning in 1984.