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Interview transcript [Unknown] Riikka Marjamäki. [Adam Smith] Oh hello, it’s Adam Smith calling from the Nobel Foundation web site in Stockholm. [Unknown] Hello. The President is sitting next to me and I’ll give the phone to him. [AS] Thank you very much indeed, that’s splendid. [Martti Ahtisaari] Hallo. [AS]…

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by Øyvind Tønnesson Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000 During the Second World War no Nobel Peace Prize was awarded. Under the German occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945 normal political activity was banned, and there was little the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting could do except postpone the prize awards and defend its integrity.…

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Alva Myrdal was born in Uppsala in 1902, graduated from University in 1924, and married the same year. Together with her husband she made a major contribution in the 1930s to the work of promoting social welfare. They were joint authors of a book entitled “The population problem in crisis”, and she was also actively…