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The Peace Prize is awarded annually "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."Official Site: Alfred Nobel's Will
The Nobel Foundation anounced on October 8, 2009 that US president Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/
The Nobel Peace Prize is the one of five Nobel Prizes awarded by the Nobel Foundation of Stockholm, Sweden. -
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- Created by Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel
- First awarded: 1901
- First recipients: Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
- Former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
- Other winners have included Martin Luther King Jr., Woodrow Wilson, International Committee of the Red Cross, Theodore Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa
- Other Nobel Prizes: Physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine and literature
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... area twice the size of London — in the last decade, said the group, which won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to establish the Mine Ban Treaty. ...The Associated Press (November 12, 2009)
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I was a bit inquisitive today!! My #1 question to my coworkers... Do you honestly think Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize this early?
@SooBrooklyNN | November 14, 2009 03:00 AM -
I broke up a fist fight tonight. I deserve a nobel peace prize.
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George Bush was such an asshole you can win the Nobel Peace Prize just by not being him
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A comprehensive list of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.nobelprizes.com
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View All Nobel Peace Prize Questions (361) | Ask a QuestionIF the Nobel committee (made up of Norwegian politicians from across the spectrum) had NOT chosen Obama, who SHOULD they have picked? (1 Answer)I would probably have chosen Morgan Tsvangirai from Zimbabwe, or Hu Jia from China. Tsvangirai stood up to Robert Mugabe, and brought hope to Zimbabwe of ever getting a future. ... read morewhat invention won Albert Einstein the Nobel prize? (5 Answers)He won the prize for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. read moreDoes Barack Obama really deserve the Novel Prize for peace? (12 Answers)There have been several posts on this, I even posted one myself. My direct answer to your question would be no he does not deserve it. This quick answer has ... read more
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