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Interview, September 2013 Interview with Ingeborg Breines, Co-President of the International Peace Bureau (IPB), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1910, at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 13 September 2013. IPB’s Ingeborg Breines’ advice to young people wanting to make a difference. IPB’s Ingeborg Breines on the future of the organisation. IPB’s Ingeborg…

Swedish Nobelpris-föredrag, 10 december 1908 Detta föredrag hölls inför Det Norske Stortings Nobelkomité och en särskildt inbjuden församling i Nobelinstitutet i Kristiania den 10 december 1908, sedan årets fredspris blifvit öfverlämnadt i två lika delar, den ena till K.P. Arnoldson, som var närvarande, och den andra till Danmarks regerings representant å den för sjukdom frånvarande…

Norwegian Nobel-foredrag holdt i Det Norske Nobelinstitut den 18de maj 1909 Fredsbevægelsens organisatjon I7de maj, det var igår. Den store natjonale norske festdag. 18de maj, det er i dag. Den burde en gang blive en stor internatjonal festdag. Det er idag 10-årsdagen, siden den förste fredskonference blev åbnet i Haag. Jeg tager det som et…

English Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1908 World Referendum Like many such legends in many nations, an old Nordic saga tells of a time when the streets were paved with gold without tempting anyone to sin, a time when human beings were good and their customs and laws mild, inspired by the spirit of wisdom. The…

English Nobel Lecture, May 18, 1909 The Organization of the Peace Movement Yesterday was the seventeenth of May, Norway’s great day of national celebration. Today’s date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. I…

Nobel Lecture, August 25, 1909 Peace and Law in the Italian Tradition When on the afternoon of December 10, 1907, I received the happy news, soon to be made public in the newspapers, that you had conferred upon me the Nobel Peace Prize, the satisfaction of all Italians was reflected in the many marks of…

 Nobel Lecture, May 18, 1908 The Work at The Hague in 1899 and in 1907 As you can imagine, I have been looking forward to this opportunity of expressing publicly to the Nobel Committee my deep gratitude for the signal honor they have conferred in awarding me the Peace Prize; I look upon it as…

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Acceptance by Herbert H.D. Peirce, American Envoy. Since President Roosevelt was not present at the award ceremony on December 10, 1906, Mr. Herbert H.D. Peirce, American envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Norway, accepted the prize on his behalf. Mr. Peirce’s speech, which included the reading of a telegram from the President, follows: I deeply…