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Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo. Read more about sharing. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been presented to three women at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. This year's award was won jointly by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian peace activist, and Yemeni pro-democracy campaigner Tawakkol Karman.
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Obama: Nobel Peace Prize is 'call to action' While most Nobel prizes are awarded by committees based in Sweden, the Peace Prize is determined by a five-member panel appointed by the Norwegian parliament. Wangari Muta Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who won the 2004 Peace Prize, said the win for Obama, whose father was Kenyan, will help Africa move forward.
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The Nobel Peace Prize, 1901-2000 In 1973 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to US National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and North Vietnamese leader and negotiator Le Duc Tho for the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces.
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- Back to results. Nobel Peace Prize museum with an exciting combination of changing and permanent exhibitions that promote popular interest in issues relating to war, peace and conflict resolution. The Peace Prize laureates are all presented on digital screens in the Nobel Field, a garden of 1000 fibre-optic lights.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Acceptance Speech Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo Speaking before the presentation at Oslo's City Hall, Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said: We congratulate this year's winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee received a record 241 nominations for the 2011 prize.
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
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?????? ?? Dr. King Is Winner Of Nobel Award. Special to The New York Times. Oslo, Norway, Oct. 14--The Nobel Peace prize for 1964 was awarded today to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The 35-year-old civil rights leader is the youngest winner of the prize that Dr. Alfred Nobel instituted since the first was awarded in 1901.
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Who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, what is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and who else was in contention to win? The Nobel laureate receives a diploma, a medal, and about $1.5 million. The winner was announced in Oslo, Norway, on Friday, October 6. It was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Who else was in the running to win it? A bookmaking giant made Pope Francis the favourite to land the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Is this why Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize? Barack Obama | chemical weapons | nobel peach prize | Russia | syria | theodore roosevelt | vladimir putin. In December 2009 the world was treated to the unexpected news that President Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Among those most surprised was Obama himself. Not many sitting American presidents have won the award. In fact, Obama was only the third.
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List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates In 1901, Passy and Dunant shared a Prize of 150,782 Swedish kronor, which was equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008. The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm.
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- In 1950 Bunche was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his successful mediation of a series of armistice agreements between the new nation of Israel and four Arab neighbors, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
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Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners you need to know On Oct. 12, the Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.. This year, a record number of candidates - 259, including 50 organizations - were nominated for the prize.
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- In this Dec. 10, 1964, file photo, U.S. civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holds his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal in Oslo, Norway.
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- The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos. But what has he achieved? He was honored for bringing FARC to the negotiating table.
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- The Nobel Prizes for 2012, including the Peace prize, were set at 8 Million Swedish Kroner, which was 12 million US Dollars at that time.  Of course, the monetary amount is … secondary to the prestige and publicity a Nobel prize gives the recipient and their causes. Geoff Canyon.
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Nobel Peace Prize The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. The Nobel laureate receives a diploma, a medal, and a document confirming the prize amount. As of 2013, the prize was worth 10 million SEK (about US$1.5 million). Since 1990, the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony is held at Oslo City Hall.
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- 0. Nobel prize is awarded annually by Norwegian Nobel Committee each year for outstanding contributions in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, Peace, Literature and Physics. It is not a common or general award but a special one globally.
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- Oslo is the biggest city in Norway, and has been the country's capital since 1814. The Goverment and Parliament are located here, and at the end of Oslo's main street, Karl Johans gate, you find the Royal Palace.
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- Oslo is now the capital of Norway. Trondheim was the capital of Norway until 1217. After 1217 the de facto capital was at Bergen until around 1300 when the capital moved to Oslo. After 1380 Norway was ruled by either Denmark or Sweden and was governed by either of their respective capitals.
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Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s inspiring Nobel Peace Prize speech Martin Luther King, Jr. reacts in St. Augustine, Fla., after learning that the Senate passed the Civil Rights Bill on June 19, 1964. King holds his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal in Oslo, Norway.
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- Between Oslo and the Swedish border lies this diverse and exciting region – Inner Østfold. østfold explore the pristine, nature which offers peace and, quiet as well as, canoeing bike rides and. fishing Edvard Munch: Self-portrait in Front of the House Wall, 1926Photo: Munch-museet/Munch-Ellingsen-gruppen/BONO Edvard Munch and Oslo Read the stories about Oslo and the world famous painter Edvard Munch.
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Nobel Prize controversies Yes, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. The committee explained that he was given it: for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy… and cooperation between peoples.. Media historian, educator and author.
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Nobel Prize The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm, Sweden (with the exception of the peace prize, which is held in Oslo, Norway). Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money that has been decided by the Nobel Foundation.
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- No visit to Oslo is complete without a visit to the Holmenkollen ski jump, erected for the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952 (stop along the way for hot chocolate and apple cake in front of a roaring fire at Kafe Seterstua).
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- Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel's death.