Peace

Peace is when people are able to resolve their conflicts without violence and can work
together to improve the quality of their lives.

Peace is when:

1. everyone lives in safety, without fear or threat of violence, and no form of violence is
tolerated in law or in practice
2. everyone is equal before the law, the systems for justice are trusted, and fair and
effective laws protect peoples rights
3. everyone is able to participate in shaping political decisions and the government is
accountable to the people
4. everyone has fair and equal access to the basic needs for their wellbeing such as
food, clean water, shelter, education, healthcare and a decent living environment
5. everyone has an equal opportunity to work and make a living, regardless of gender,
ethnicity or any other aspect of identity

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 98 times to 131 Nobel Laureates between 1901
and 2017, 104 individuals and 27 organizations. Since the International Committee of the
Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963),
and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize two times (in 1954 and 1981), there are 24 individual organizations
which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Click on the links to get more information.

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Nobel peace prize winners

Kofi Annan :

In 2001, its centennial year, the Nobel Committee decided that the Peace Prize was to
be divided between the United Nations (UN) and the world organization's Secretary-
General, Kofi Annan. The choice showed the Committee's traditional support for organized
cooperation between states.

Kofi Annan was born in Ghana in 1938. His father was a chief and governor of the
Ashanti province. He attended a Methodist school and a technical college in his home
country before continuing his academic studies in Switzerland and the United States.

Annan pursued a varied career in the UN system until 1993, when he was appointed
Deputy Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations, a position he held until 1997, when
he took over as the United Nations' seventh Secretary-General.

Kofi Annan was awarded the Peace Prize for having revitalized the UN and for
having given priority to human rights. The Nobel Committee also recognized his
commitment to the struggle to contain the spreading of the HIV virus in Africa and his
declared opposition to international terrorism.

Nelson Mandela :

Son of a chief, Nelson Mandela studied law and became one of South Africa's first
black lawyers. Early in the 1950s he was elected leader of the youth wing of the ANC
(African National Congress) liberation movement. When the country's white minority
government prohibited the ANC in 1960, Mandela became convinced that armed struggle
was inevitable. Inspired by the guerrilla wars in Algeria and Cuba, he organized a military
underground movement that engaged in sabotage. In 1962 he was arrested and sentenced to
life imprisonment for high treason and conspiracy against the state.

From 1964 to 1982 he was confined to the notorious prison island Robben Island,
together with several other resistance leaders. He was then moved to prison on the mainland
until his release in 1990. During his imprisonment, Mandela became a rallying point for
South Africa's oppressed, and the world's most famous political prisoner.

Nelson Mandela shared the Peace Prize with the man who had released him,
President Frederik Willem de Klerk, because they had agreed on a peaceful transition to
majority rule.

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Nelson Mandela

Born: 18 July 1918, Qunu, South Africa

Died: 5 December 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa

Residence at the time of the award: South Africa

Prize motivation: "for their work for the peaceful termination of the
apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South
Africa"

Field: human rights, negotiation

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Kofi Annan

Born: 8 April 1938, Kumasi, Gold Coast (now Ghana)

Residence at the time of the award: Ghana

Prize motivation: "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful
world"

Role: U.N. Secretary-General

Field: world organizing

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Candidates of nobel peace prize 2017

The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 was awarded to International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian
consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve
a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons".

President Donald Trump scored a nomination. So did Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Thats right. The leaders of the United States and Russia, respectively, were nominated for
the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. The winner will be announced by the Norwegian Nobel
Committee on Friday.

Getting nominated isnt actually very prestigious. Qualified nominators can throw anyones
name into the ring, and they do. In years past, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin both received a nod.

Of course, Trump and Putin are very long shots. The Peace Research Institute Oslo, an
independent foundation, puts together its own shortlist of much more valid contenders.

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