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...
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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".
US President Barack Obama's justification for war in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech won general praise Friday as he left Oslo at the end of a quick visit to receive the prestigious award. In a delicate but skilfully executed exercise, Obama referred to himself as "commander-in-chief of a nation in the midst of two wars" and said armed conflict was at times necessary. Most commentators, however, praised the 44th US president's "realism." "You have to give Obama real credit: he spoke... Read Full Story
As the president of the United States prepared to receive his Nobel Peace Prize Thursday, Indonesia remembered "Little Barry" Obama with the unveiling of a bronze statue of him as a 10-year-old boy. The statue of a young Barack Obama, dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, was erected in the Jakarta neighbourhood where he used to play as a child. The 100 million rupiah (10,600 dollar) statue, which was based on a picture of Obama taken during his childhood, depicts the future world leader wearing... Read Full Story
Honored for peace in a time of war, President Barack Obama is formally becoming a Nobel laureate under such odd circumstances that even he will make a point of it. In a ceremony in Oslo, the president on Thursday will receive his Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma for his work to reshape the way the United States deals with the world. Yet he does so under the long shadow of Afghanistan, where he is ordering 30,000 more troops to war. So Obama's Nobel speech — a tradition that goes to the... Read Full Story
Throughout its more than 100-year history the Norwegian Nobel Committee has been no stranger to controversy, as this year with its attribution of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama. The October 9 announcement stunned the world, and the laureate himself. Many observers were quick to call Obama's prize "premature," and the US leader's decision, just nine days before the glitzy Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on Thursday, to send 30,000 additional troops to the US-led war in... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will frame the war in Afghanistan as part of wider pursuit for peace when he accepts the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday, a U.S. official said. Obama, who flies to Norway on Wednesday night, has the tricky task of reconciling the peace prize with being a wartime president who only last week ordered 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan in a dramatic escalation of the U.S. war effort. This "interesting coincidence of history" is not... Read Full Story
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not shirk from mentioning Afghanistan and his decision to send more troops to the war zone when he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize this week, the White House said on Monday. Acknowledging the irony of a wartime president winning a peace prize, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would address this "juxtaposition" in his acceptance speech in the Norwegian capital Oslo on Thursday. When it was announced in October that Obama had won... Read Full Story
President's Address Defending the Use of Force When Necessary Was Reflective of the Elder Bush, Who Went to War to Stop Saddam Hussein's Aggression Against Kuwait With the Broad Support of the World Community -- Unlike the Younger Bush, Who Defied the World to Finish Off the Iraqi Dictator in Apparent Revenge For Saddam's Attempt to Kill His Father Sarah Palin had some rare praise Thursday for President Obama after the president delivered his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo... Read Full Story
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Will Smith , Jada Pinkett-Smith and their two kids - Jaden , 11, and Willow , 9 - were photographed on the stage at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, held at the Oslo Spectrum, in Oslo, Norway, on Friday (December 11).
The famous family of four were on hand to support President Barack Obama accept his Nobel Peace Prize.
It’s a fantastic historical event," Will said . "It’s something we absolutely positively had to be a part of.”
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