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Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of several awards awarded each year through the Nobel Foundation in Sweden.

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About Nobel Peace Prize

Each year in December the Nobel Foundation administers the awarding of prizes to scholars and scientists who have made a great contribution to the fields of physics, chemistry, and several other categories. The Nobel Peace Prize is given out at the same time, but it is slightly differently.

According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the Peace Prize must be awarded by a committee picked by the Norwegian government (all the other Nobel Prize winners are picked by Swedish groups), and is awarded to someone who has, … done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Individuals or groups who have made great strides towards world peace receive the Prize each year.

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. Some famous winners are: The International Committee of the Red Cross’, Woodrow Wilson’, Albert Schweitzer’, George Marshall’, Martin Luther King Jr.’, Henry Kissinger’, Eisaku Sato’, Amnesty International’, Mother Teresa’, Lech Walesa’, Elie Wiesel’, Tenzin Gyatso (HH the 14th Dalai Lama)’, Mikhail Gorbachev’, Aung San Suu Kyi’, Nelson Mandela’, Jimmy Carter’, Mohamed ElBaradei’, Al Gore’, and Barack Obama’.

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South African activist and Nobel Peace Prize and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu is pictured before a mass, on July 13, 1986, at Ennerdale, near Johannesburg.

Wax image of late Palestinian leader and Nobel Peace Prize exposed at the Wax Museum in Mexico City on December 30, 2011. The Wax Museum in Mexico exhibits more than two hundred wax figures of political leaders, actors, artists, footballers, athletes, and other personalities from around the world.

Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State and current Chairman of the National Democratic Institute, speaks during a memorial tribute for Vaclav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic, at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC, January 6, 2012. Havel died December 18, 2011 and was a renowned writer, democracy activist and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Yemeni journalist and activist Tawakkol Karman delivers a speech on the uprisings in Yemen at Chatham House in London on December 16, 2011. Karman was at 32 the youngest person to win the Peace Prize and the first Arab woman to receive a Nobel in any category.

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