Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

A community portal about Nobel Peace Prize with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Nobel Peace Prize is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. Nobel... [more]

A community portal about Nobel Peace Prize with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Nobel Peace Prize is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. Nobel died in 1896 and did not leave an explanation for his choice of this Nobel prize category. The categories for chemistry and physics were obvious choices as he was a trained chemical engineer. The reason behind the peace prize is less clear. Some have said it was Nobel's way to compensate for developing destructive forces. However it is to be noted that none of his explosives, except for ballistite, were used in any war during his lifetime. According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

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Obama deserving of the 'hype' and the Nobel: Bono

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Rock star Bono on Sunday praised Barack Obama for helping "re-brand" the United States as a leading force in combating the world's most pressing problems, and deemed the president's controversial Nobel Peace prize deserved. In an article Sunday in The New York Times, the U2 rocker and rights activist praised Obama's dedication to "the eradication of extreme poverty in our time," as well as Obama's commitment to "fighting nuclear proliferation and climate change, improving relations in the Middle East and, by the way, creating jobs and providing health care at home." And the world-famous singer said the US president is the central figure in ... Read Full Story

Obama got his Nobel for just a down payment

Some would say the decision was dynamite. Many others would say the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama was explosive. Whatever the adjective used to describe last weeks announcement, which put our president in the company of Woodrow Wilson in 1919, Henry Kissinger in 1973, Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 and Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin in 1994, the reactions are all the same. Mixed. I can tell you my reaction early Friday morning when I saw the news crawl across CNN huh? Thats right, I didnt understand not only why but also how the Nobel Committee could award ... Read Full Story

Obama, Nobel & The BCS Part 2

Written by brookjames on
I wasn’t intending to write a Part 2 for this post, but my thoughts continued and so I decided to go for it. If you didn’t read Part 1 , go check it out and read the comments. The first comment is mostly what this is a response to (not in a bad way but solely because I just had a bunch more thoughts!). As I stated in Part 1, I haven’t really been up on my news other than some headlines. It seems to me that a huge amount of the vocalization about the Prize is because President Obama is a very hot ... Read Full Story

GOP, even some liberals, dismiss Obama peace prize

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Gee, you'd think a U.S. president who won the Nobel Peace Prize might get rave reviews from his party's activists and a polite congrats from top Republicans. But news of Barack Obama's award Friday drew a rebuke from the Republican Party chairman, ridicule from conservative bloggers, and even gripes from some liberals who think he hasn't done enough to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Top Democrats congratulated Obama, of course, but critics abounded on the left and right. "What has President Obama actually accomplished?" said Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee. "It is unfortunate that the president's star power ... Read Full Story

Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

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Herta Mueller, a member of Romania's ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse. Mueller was honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed," the Swedish Academy said. The 56-year-old author made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled "Niederungen," or "Nadirs," depicting the harshness of life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania. It was promptly censored ... Read Full Story
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Yunus sees opportunity in crisis
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, gives a speech in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 22 before the plenary session of the 4th European Development Days meeting. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus calls the ...  
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Nobel laureate brings Bangladesh business model to Europe
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has brought ideas for creating micro "social businesses" from Bangladesh to Europe with support from several of the world's leading corporations. Yunus, who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for developing micro ...  
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Daughter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu, to...
GENESEE COUNTY — Nontombi Naomi Tutu grew up a black woman in apartheid South Africa and watched her famous father fight so hard for racial equality, he earned the title “South Africa’s moral conscience.”  
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Community Nobel Peace Prize
Dear Editor: As a nominating member of the community Nobel Prize award, it has been brought to my attention that the citizens of Gulf County may be eligible to win this coveted prize next year. Up here in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, we...  
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Nobel peace prize winners expected in Ambon
Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh have been invited to attend the 29th World Peace Day commemoration ceremony in the scenic eastern Indonesian city of Ambon this month.  
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