by Susan | Sep 18, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1997 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, based in Switzerland, and to Jody Williams, of the United States, for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines. In her Nobel lecture, Williams summarized the...
by Susan | Sep 17, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta, both from Indonesia, for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor. In his Nobel lecture, Bishop Belo addressed youth: “Society is a...
by Susan | Sep 16, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1995 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Joseph Rotblat, of the United Kingdom, and to the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, founded in Canada, for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer...
by Susan | Sep 15, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Yasser Arafat, of Palestine, and to Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, of Israel, to honor a political act which called for great courage on both sides, and which has opened up opportunities for a new development towards...
by Susan | Sep 14, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1993 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk, of South Africa, for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. De Clerk said in his Nobel...
by Susan | Sep 13, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1992 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Rigoberta Menchú Tum, of Guatemala, for her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples. She had been nominated by Indian organizations, who wanted to draw...
