by Susan | Aug 31, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1979 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mother Teresa, of India, born in Ottoman Kosovo, founder of Missionaries of Charity. In her Nobel Lecture she said, “And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we...
by Susan | Aug 30, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat, of Egypt, and to Menachem Begin, of Israel, for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel. In her presentation speech, Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1977 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Amnesty International, based in the United Kingdom, for protecting the human rights of prisoners of conscience. The Nobel Lecture was delivered by Mümtaz Soysal (pictured), a Turkish academic, the first former prisoner of...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1976 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, of the United Kingdom, founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People.) In her Nobel lecture Betty Williams said, “Compassion is more...
by Susan | Aug 27, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, of the Soviet Union, for his struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations. Sakharov, a physicist, was the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. The leaders of...
by Susan | Aug 26, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1974 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Seán MacBride, of Ireland, President of the International Peace Bureau; President of the Commission of Namibia. “For his strong interest in human rights: piloting the European Convention on Human Rights through the...
