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Prizes related to the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize In 2008, Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to resolve international conflicts. Find out here about previous Nobel Prizes relevant to his work. The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 Jimmy Carter “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts,…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Knudsen, Presiding, on December 10, 1906 As the meets today, the tenth of December, perhaps for the last time in this hall, to announce to the Norwegian Parliament its decision concerning the award of the Peace Prize, it is appropriate to recall that the Norwegian Parliament was one of the first…

Presentation by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1908 On behalf of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, I have the honor to extend a welcome to all who have assembled here on this occasion commemorating the great Swedish patron and benefactor, Alfred Nobel, who gave the whole of his…

Toast by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the on May 16, 1904 Dear Mr. Ducommun, when the Committee of the Norwegian Parliament was asked to honor and reward the work of peace, our thoughts immediately turned to the men who have done this work during the long difficult years when it was received with a…

The Occasion of the First Award The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at a meeting of the Norwegian Parliament which took place at ten o’clock on the morning of December 10, 1901. The ceremony was brief, lasting only fifteen minutes. Mr. Carl Christian Bremer, president of the Parliament, opened it with this brief address:…

Presentation Speech by Ragnvald Moe, Secretary to the , on December 10, 1913 Henri La Fontaine is the true leader of the popular peace movement in Europe. Since 1907 he has been president of the in Bern. He is also a prominent member of the Interparliamentary Union. La Fontaine was born on April 22, 1854,…