Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is an annual award given to people who have demonstrated a great effort to further peace across the world.http://nobelpeaceprize.org/eng_com_will2.html

The Nobel Foundation announced on October 8, 2009 that US president Barack Obama had 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.

On December 10, 2010, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He could not attend the ceremony held in Oslo, Norway, as has been imprisoned since 2008. He was imprisoned for writing "Charter '08," a doctrine that called for rights and reform in China.http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/am_top_news_nobel_peace_prize.html

Origin

The Nobel Peace Prize was one award that industrialist Alfred Nobel established in his will. According to Nobel, the prize was to be given to those who "...have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses." Nobel dictated that the recipient would be chosen by a committee of five elected people of the Norwegian Storting.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/lundestad-review/

Notable Recipients

1901: Jean Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
1906: Theodore Roosevelt
1913: Henri La Fontaine
1919: Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1929: Frank Billings Kellogg
1952: Albert Schweitzer
1964: Martin Luther King, Jr.
1965: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
1973: Henry A. Kissinger
1977: Amnesty International
1979: Mother Teresa
1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1988: United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1990: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1993: Nelson Mandela
1994: Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin
2001: Kofi Annan
2002: Jimmy Carter
2007: Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2009: Barack H. Obama
2010: Liu Xiaobohttp://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/

2008 Nobel Peace Prize Announcement

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This is announcement made by the Nobel Prize committee, announcing the winner of the prize 2008. The prize went to Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and United Nations diplomat. His life and career is discussed in the video, highlighting his peace achievements across the globe.