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Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
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BACKGROUND
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who
"shall have 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.
Alfred Nobel's will further specified that the prize be awarded to by a committee
of five people chosen by the Norwegian Parliament.
Nobel died in 1896 and he did not leave an explanation for choosing peace as
a prize category. As he was a trained chemical engineer, the categories for
chemistry and physics were obvious choices. The reasoning behind the peace
prize is less clear. According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, his friendship
with Bertha von Suttner, a peace activist and later recipient of the prize,
profoundly influenced his decision to include peace as a category.Some Nobel
scholars suggest it was Nobel's way to compensate for developing destructive
forces. His inventions included dynamite and ballistite, both of which were used
violently during his lifetime. Ballistite was used in war and the
Irish Republican Brotherhood, an Irish nationalist organization, carried out
dynamite attacks in the 1880s.Nobel was also instrumental in turning Bofors
from an iron and steel company to an armaments company.
Definition
The Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian and Swedish: Nobels
fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish
industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel,
along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine,
and Literature. Since 1901, it has been awarded annually (with
some exceptions) 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 and promotion of
peace congresses."[1]
Per Alfred Nobel's will, the recipient is selected by the
Norwegian Nobel Committee, a 5-member committee appointed by
the Parliament of Norway. Since 1990, the prize is awarded on
December 10 in Oslo City Hall each year. The prize was formerly
awarded in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law
(1947–89), the Norwegian Nobel Institute (1905–46) and the
Parliament (1901–04).
list of the nobel peace prize winners
over the past ten years
Committee members named the Algerian President for a number of reasons among
them putting an end to the Ethiopia-Eritrea bloody conflict and using his diplomatic
skills in putting an end to a long war between Iraq and Iran.
His most important contribution, the Committee said, was bringing peace and
reconciliation to the people of Algeria and through awarding him the 2008 Nobel
Peace Prize the Nobel Committee would be supporting and strengthening the peace
process in Algeria.
The Committee represented its campaign at the Swiss Press Club in Geneva and was
represented by a number of Algerians abroad, among them Dr. Abdellatif Bettayeb
living in the United Kingdom, Gamal Benmabrouk from Switzerland, Tarek Chirouf
from Geneva, Nacer Sefta from Hungary and an Algerian journalist from Algiers,
Mohamed Kerrouche.