The fifth award ceremony in 1988 at the Austria Centre Vienna honoured 18 recipients.

	At Bruno Kreisky's suggestion, awards went to the Brazilian Dominican monk Frei Betto, the Israeli-Palestinian village Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam, Latif Dori from the Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue founded by Israelis of oriental origin, the Committee for Social and Medical Aid for Palestinians and the student Claudia Vilanek for her charitable work in India and Austria.
Areal view on the Jewish-Arab village and peace project Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam.

Austrian award winners were the International Helsinki Federation, the Catholic Social Academy Austria, the Society of Friends of the Chaim Sheba Medical Centers, the Society for Austrian-Arab Relations, Greenpeace Austria, and the Association for the History of the Labour Movement.

The prominent Namibian human rights lawyer and independence activist, Anton Lubowski, was honoured, as was the leading opposition politician in Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto. Anton Lubowski was murdered only a few months later, shortly before independence elections.

Prize winners and guests of honour at the award ceremony 1988.

The repression of human rights in South Korea was again drawn attention to in an award to „Justitia et Pax“, Korean Commission.

Other award winners were Bishop Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba from Ecuador, the Guatemalan Human Rights Organisation GAM, the Nicaraguan writer and politician Sergio Ramírez Mercado and the Unidad Nacional de Trabajadores Salvadorenos (UNTS).