Nobel Prize

has decided that the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. The Peacekeeping Forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has been negotiated but a peace treaty has yet to be established. In situations of this kind, the…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma) for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma’s liberation leader Aung San and showed an early interest in Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violent protest. After having long refrained…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1994, in alphabetical order, to Yasir Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East. For several decades, the conflict between Israel and its neighbour states, and between Israelis and Palestinians, has been among the most irreconcilable and menacing…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1998 to John Hume and David Trimble for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Over the past thirty years, the national, religious and social conflict in Northern Ireland has cost over 3,500 people their lives. John Hume has throughout…

Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, delivering the presentation speech for the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, 10 December 1994. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee…

Remarks at the Award Ceremony by Anders Johnsen Buen, President of the Norwegian Parliament, on December 10, 1920 The letter from the of the Norwegian Parliament reads as follows: “The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has the honor of announcing herewith its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919 to the President…

Remarks at the Award Ceremony by Anders Johnsen Buen, President of the Norwegian Parliament, on December 10, 1920 The letter from the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament reads as follows: “The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has the honor of announcing herewith its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919 to…

Presentation Speech by Professor John Sanness, Chairman of the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. The year 1979 has not been a year of peace: disputes and conflicts between nations, peoples, and ideologies have been conducted…

Presentation Speech by Professor John Sanness, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for 1980 to Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. He has devoted many years of his life to the cause of human rights in Argentina and…

Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes, through the presentation of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, to direct attention to a unifying leader figure in the campaign to solve South Africa’s apartheid problem by peaceful means. The situation…