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by Øyvind Tønnesson Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000 The Nobel Peace Prize has frequently caused controversy. One reason is that many Laureates have been contemporary and highly controversial political actors, another is that the Prizes in many instances, have increased public focus on international or national conflicts. In the latter case, the awards have often been…

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(pdf, 291 kB) Norwegianf Nobelforedrag av Malala Yousafzai, Oslo, 10. desember, 2014. Bismillah hir rahman ir rahim. I Guds den nådefulle og mest velgjørendes navn. Deres Majesteter, ærede medlemmer av Den norske Nobelkomiteen, kjære søstre og brødre. Dagen i dag er en svært lykkelig dag for meg. Jeg er beæret over at Nobelkomiteen har valgt…

Shimon Peres (Labour), Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born in Poland in 1923 and immigrated with his family as a child. He studied at the Ben Shemen Agricultural School, and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Alumot in the Jordan Valley. In 1943, he was elected secretary of the Hano’ar Ha’oved youth. In Israel’s…

Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini was born on 24 August 1929 in Cairo, his father a textile merchant who was a Palestinian with some Egyptian ancestry, his mother from an old Palestinian family in Jerusalem. She died when Yasir, as he was called, was five years old, and he was sent to live with…

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Norwegian har bestemt at Nobels fredspris for 2015 skal tildeles den tunisiske «Kvartetten for nasjonal dialog» for dens avgjørende bidrag til byggingen av et pluralistisk demokrati i Tunisia i kjølvannet av jasminrevolusjonen i 2011. Kvartetten kom i stand sommeren 2013 da demokratiseringsprosessen sto i fare for å bryte sammen som følge av politiske drap og…