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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five, appointed by the Storting (the Norwegian parliament). The Norwegian Nobel Committee 2025 Members Jørgen Watne Frydnes (Chair) Asle Toje (Vice Chair) Anne Enger Kristin Clemet Gry Larsen Kristian Berg Harpviken (Secretary) According to the rules laid down by the Storting, election to the committee…

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Pragmatist by nature, disciplined, cosmopolitan, committed to his country, Juan Manuel Santos has been an effective leader throughout his life. He was effective when it was time to wage war against illegal armed groups and he was even more effective in seeking and obtaining, against all odds, a peace agreement with Latin America’s oldest and…

Text taken from Wikipedia, 29 February 2016 In 2011, Tunisia was experiencing a revolution. In its wake, the stability and security of the country were considerably compromised. After the creation of the Assemblée nationale constituante (Constituent Assembly of Tunisia) of 2011, the writing of a new constitution proved difficult and the one-year deadline for its…

The first Chinese citizen to receive a Nobel Prize, Liu Xiaobo is a poet and literary critic who has come to prominence over the last two decades as one of the most visible leaders of China’s pro-democracy movement. Currently serving an 11 year prison term, he is the third Nobel Peace Laureate to be under…

Incumbent Presidents have quite frequently been recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. US Presidents and were Laureates while in office, as for instance, were Presidents of the USSR and of South Korea. There have also been current Prime Ministers ( of Israel) and Chancellors ( of the Federal Republic of Germany), but never before has…

Martti Ahtisaari, former diplomat and politician, is an international trouble-shooter. Over the past two decades he has worked under a variety of mandates to attempt to bring a peaceful end to conflicts in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Few people have gained such a broad understanding of the intricacies of managing conflict resolution.…

For the third successive year, but for only the sixth time since it was initiated in 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been divided equally between an institution and an individual. In awarding the Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body responsible for scientific assessment of climate change, and Albert…

Russian The speech was read by Andrej Kovaljov.