Posts Tagged ‘Nobel Peace Prize’

Committee Insider On Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Print Friendly Above photo: Obama’s prize fell short of hopes. Oslo, Norway – The effect of giving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama fell short of the nominating committee’s hopes, and several awards in the past 25 years were even more questionable, the committee’s former secretary says in a new book. Geir Lundestad, lifting a […]

Ex-Nobel committee exec regrets Obama Peace Prize

While it is quite rare for Nobel officials to openly discuss the nuts and bolts of their secretive committee, the former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has apparently owned up in his memoir ‘Secretary of Peace’, to be released on Thursday, that the panel had expected the award to somewhat challenge Obama, who received […]

Female peace activists to march from North to South Korea amid controversy

Female activists from around the world arrive at Pyongyang airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo taken and released by Kyodo May 19, 2015. (Reuters/Kyodo) Feminist icon Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace Prize laureates have joined a group of 30 women activists planning to cross the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South […]

Women’s Peace Walk Across The Korean DMZ Impeded

Print Friendly Gloria Steinem (center) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire (left) walk with the other women peace activists in Pyongyang, North Korea today. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon) PYONGYANG, North Korea — International, Northern and Southern Korean women activists who plan to cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone said Wednesday they are determined to move forward with […]

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