Nobel Prize

The International Committee of the Red Cross – 1917 The only Nobel Peace Prize awarded during the years of World War I was that for 1917 given to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The award ceremony took place on December 10, 1917, at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, with Mr. Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland,…

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Alfred Hermann Fried (November 11, 1864-May 4, 1921) was born in Vienna, but pursued most of his active journalistic career in Germany. Leaving school at the age of fifteen, he worked in his native city as a bookseller, then a few years later went to Berlin where he opened his own press in 1887. Influenced…

Bishop Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. His father was a teacher, and he himself was educated at Johannesburg Bantu High School. After leaving school he trained first as a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and in 1954 he graduated from the University of South Africa. After three years as a…

Co-founder of Community of Peace People with Mr. Ciaran McKeown and Mrs Betty Williams – Founded 14/8/76 Name: Mairead Corrigan (Miss)Age: 27 January 1944Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern IrelandParents: Father – Window Cleaning ContractorMother – Housewife – (Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Corrigan)Family: 5 Sisters and 2 Brothers Education: St. Vincent’s Primary School, Falls Road, BelfastMiss…

Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East, 1948-1949 by Asle Sveen This article was published on 9 December 2006. “I have a bias in favour of both Arabs and Jews in the sense that I believe that both are good, honourable and essentially peace-loving peoples, and are therefore as capable of making peace as…

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Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Vice-Chairman of the , on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1976 in the University Festival Hall, Oslo, December 10, 1977. Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: On August 10, 1976, a remarkable incident occurred in one of the streets…