Nobel Prize

Lech Wałęsa was born on September 29, 1943 in Popowo, Poland. After graduating from vocational school, he worked as a car mechanic at a machine center from 1961 to 1965. He served in the army for two years, rose to the rank of corporal, and in 1967 was employed in the Gdansk shipyards as an…

Co-founder of Community of Peace People with Mr. Ciaran McKeown and Miss Mairead Corrigan – Founded 14/8/76 Name: Betty Williams (Mrs)Age: 22 May 1943Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern IrelandMarried: 14 June 1961 to Mr. Ralph Williams in BermudaFamily: 1 Boy aged 14, 1 Daughter aged 6 years – Paul and DeborahParents: Mr. & Mrs. SmythFather:…

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Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the . Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces is unfortunately a reminder to us that peace is not a matter of course here in our world. Peace has to be actively…

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…