by Susan | Aug 19, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Martin Luther King, Jr., of the United States, a campaigner for civil rights, “first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence.” In what is one of the world’s...
by Susan | Aug 18, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1963 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies, both based in Switzerland, for their work in the protection of human rights in the ICRC’s 100 years of existence. The Red Cross had its...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1962 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Linus Carl Pauling, of the United States, for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing. In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him the only person to win two undivided Nobel Prizes. In his Nobel...
by Susan | Aug 16, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1961 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded posthumously to Dag Hammarskjöld, of Sweden, Secretary General of the U.N., for strengthening the organization. The year before, Hammarskjöld was killed when his plane crashed on its way to visit President Tshombe in the...
by Susan | Aug 15, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1960 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Albert Lutuli, of South Africa, President of the African National Congress, who was in the very forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. In his acceptance speech he noted: “How great is the paradox...
by Susan | Aug 14, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1959 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Philip Noel-Baker, of the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament and lifelong ardent worker for international peace, disarmament and co-operation. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish...
