Martin Bútora
Martin Bútora is a Sociologue, an author, a professor of university and a Slovak diplomat (former Slovak ambassador towards the United States of 1999 to 2003) born in 1944 with Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
In November 1989, it was one of the founders of the movement against violence, the main movement of the democratic revolution in Slovakia.
From 1990 to 1992, he was the adviser of the human rights of the former president of Czechoslovakia Václav Havel. In first half of the Nineties, he taught at the Charles university of Prague and at the university of Trnava. In 1997, it Co-founded the Institute for public affairs of which he was the first president.
Its analytical work concentrates on the international policy, of the transatlantic relations, the human rights, and the minorities.
In 1999, the National Endowment for Democracy (Washington DC) allotted to him the Democracy Service Medal. In 2000, it received the medal of Ján Papánek and in 2002 Celebration off Freedom Award by the American Jewish Committee. The same year, it received Order of the president of the Slovakia for her contribution to the defense of the human rights and the development of the civil society.
Bútora finished 6th in the presidential election 2004 (6.5% of the total of the voices).
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