El premi està dotat amb 80.000 euros i l’escultura La clau i la lletra d’Antoni Tàpies.
Guardonats
| 1989 | Karl Raimund Popper |
| 1990 | Abû Ahmad Muhammad Abd as-Salām |
| 1991 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau |
| 1992 | Mstislav Rostropovič |
| 1993 | Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza |
| 1994 | Edgar Morin |
| 1995 | Václav Havel i Richard von Weizsäcker |
| 1996 | Yaşar Kemal |
| 1997 | Amartya Kumar Sen |
| 1998 | Jacques Lucien Jean Delors |
| 1999 | Doris Lessing |
| 2000 | Abdallah Laroui |
| 2001 | Andrea Riccardi |
| 2002 | Harold Irving Bloom |
| 2003 | Nawal el-Saadawi |
| 2004 | Sari Anwār Nuṣaybah i ‘Amos Oz |
| 2005 | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| 2006 | Pere Casaldàliga i Pla |
| 2007 | Edward Osborne Wilson |
| 2008 | Cynthia Maung i Daw Aung San Suu Kyi |
| 2009 | Bill Viola |
| 2010 | James Earl Carter |
| 2011 | Haruki Murakami |
| 2012 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
| 2013 | Malala Yousafzai i Gro Harlem Brundtland |
| 2014 | Desmond Tutu |
| 2015 | Jane Goodall |
| 2016 | Joan Massagué, Manel Esteller i Josep Baselga |
| 2017 | Konstantinos Costa-Gavras |
| 2018 | Vinton Cerf |
| 2019 | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o |
| 2020 | Dania El Mazloum, Anxhela Gradeci, Tijana Postic i Özlem Türeci |
| 2021 | Judith Butler |
| 2022 | Svetlana Aleksijevič |
| 2023 | Joseph Eugene Stiglitz |