Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India founded in 1965. Award is presented "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among peoples of the world". The money constituent of this award is 2.5 million rupees. Till now it has been offered to the following-

   1. U Thant, 1965
2. Martin Luther King Jr, 1966 (posthumous)
3. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, 1967
4. Yehudi Menuhin, 1968
5. Mother Teresa, 1969
6. Kenneth Kaunda, 1970
7. Josip Broz Tito, 1971
8. André Malraux, 1972
9. Julius Nyerere, 1973
10. Raul Prebisch, 1974
11. Jonas Salk, 1975
12. Giuseppe Tucci, 1976
13. Tulsi Meherji Shrestha, 1977
14. Nichidatsu Fujii, 1978
15. Nelson Mandela, 1979
16. Barbara Ward, 1980
17. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, 1981
18. Leopold Sedar Senghor, 1982
19. Bruno Kreisky, 1983
20. Indira Gandhi, 1984 (posthumous)
21. Olof Palme, 1985 (posthumous)
22. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 1987
23. Yasser Arafat, 1988
24. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, 1989
25. Helmut Kohl, 1990
26. Aruna Asaf Ali, 1991
27. Maurice Strong, 1992
28. Aung San Suu Kyi, 1993
29. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, 1994
30. Hosni Mubarak, 1995
31. Goh Chok Tong, 2003
32. (yet to be presented) Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said, 2004
33. Wangari Maathai, 2005
34. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 2006
35. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, 2007