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- Date: October 9, 2009
- Location: Oslo, Norway
- 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
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The Nobel Foundation anounced on October 9, 2009, that U.S. 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/
Other named candidates were Morgan Tsvangirai from Zimbabwe, Piedad Cordoba from Colombia, Hu Jia from China, Ingrid Betancourt from France and woman's rights activist Simi Samar from Afghanistan.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAekET4T1D_vzDMN4JW_xZyvgezAD9B7FOR00
The Nobel Peace Prize is the one of five Nobel Prizes awarded by the Nobel Foundation of Stockholm, Sweden. 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
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Nobel Chairman Explains Decision
Nobel Prize chairman Thorbjorn Jagland is interviewed about the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and why it was awarded to Barack Obama. Jagland explains that in the little time that Obama has been on the world stage he has done more than many in regards to achieving Alfred Nobel's criteria for the reward, which includes: Fraternity among nations, the holding of peace conferences and the reduction in standing armies and nuclear arms.
epicurus added a comment October 11, 2009 02:16 AM| ReportNew order for peace is now in making, let us all hope that it shall become a reality. Prosperity follows after Peace -
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Obama Nobel Peace Prize News
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The Peace Prize & the War Dilemma
I am in a strange corner, Obama's war speech devastated me, but I still think he is the best hope for the future. When Obama accepts the Nobel Peace prize, ... (December 07, 2009)Firedoglake (blog)
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Obama Nobel Peace Prize Blogs
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Obama: Peace Prize for wartime prez: The Swamp
"There'll be no effort by Barack Obama to disguise or obscure the fact that he's a war president when he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday, Knoller notes of a ceremony takng place "10 days after he announced... (December 08, 2009)swamppolitics.com -
Only 26 percent in U.S. say Obama deserves Nobel Peace Prize ...
The jump in public support for Obama's war policy comes as voters say 66 - 26 percent he does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize he will be awarded this week, and 41 percent say the Nobel committee's choice of Obama for ... (December 08, 2009)blogs.suntimes.com -
When the Nobel Peace Prize creates a stir (AFP) | Learn Guitar
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Obama at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony - Playa del Carmen, Mexico ...
Thursday Barack Obama visits Oslo, Norway, where he will accept the Nobel Peace Prize. He will not see much of Oslo. This is the view from the room. (December 08, 2009)playa.info
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Mahalo Answers for Obama Nobel Peace Prize
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Does Barack Obama really deserve the Novel Prize for peace? 12 AnswersThere 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 n... read more -
Would any of you had felt better if President Obama had declined to accept the Nobel Peace Prize? 16 AnswersI don't think I would have felt any differently about it. I am not upset with him for winning it. I am just a little (very little) put out that he could win thi... read more -
what invention won Albert Einstein the Nobel prize? 5 AnswersHe won the prize for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. read more
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WITH no major conflict resolved by peaceful means in recent months, the field of candidates for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize is seen as wide open ahead of Friday's announcement of th...news.com.au
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#Obama: #Afghanistan, undermining #climate negot at #Cop15 (via @guardiannews) http://ow.ly/JWlv #Nobel Peace Prize? #FOEinCOP
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@SportsNation Tebow deserves the Heisman like Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize...oops
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Only 26% of Americans believe that Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize! He should turn it down.
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RT @VRWCTexan: Quinnipiac: A meager 26% beleive Obama actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize (66% say NO) #tcot
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The Nobel Peace Prize. Who should have had it? Barack Obama or Sri Sri Ravi Shankar? Write @http://facebook.com/jadajo, http://svt.se/debatt
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