Acceptance and Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1993 Your Majesties, your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a little more than six years to the end of this century and to the dawning of the new millennium. In three years we will mark the centenary of Alfred Nobel’s death and in eight the…

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Presentation Speech by , member of the , on December 10, 1937 Three statesmen who occupied leading positions during the World War were so deeply struck by the deprivation of human life and economic resources, by the futility of war as a social institution, and by its amorality, that they became convinced pacifists and throughout…

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Nelson Mandela and the rainbow of culture by Anders Hallengren This article was published on 11 September 2001. Equality and pluralism After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela negotiated the dismantling of the apartheid regime in South Africa, settled an agreement on universal suffrage and democratic elections, and became the first black president of the…

Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871-July 23, 1955) was born in a log cabin in Pickett County, Tennessee, the third of the five sons of William and Elizabeth (Riley) Hull. His father was a farmer and subsequently a lumber merchant. The only one of the five boys who showed an interest in learning, Cordell wanted to…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee has awarded Alfred Nobel’s Peace Prize for 1957 to the Canadian Lester Bowles Pearson. As we all know, Lester Pearson was Canada’s foreign minister from 1948 to 1957 when, as a result of the election, the Liberal government resigned. The winner of the Peace Prize…

Nobel Lecture Towards making peace permanent The humanitarian purpose of Alfred Nobel in establishing the peace prize which bears his name was doubtless not merely to reward those who should promote peace among nations, but to stimulate thought upon the means and methods best adapted, under the changing conditions of future years, to approach and…

Ralph Norman Angell Lane (December 26, 1872-October 7, 1967) was one of six children of Thomas Angell Lane and Mary (Brittain) Lane. Raised in a well-to-do but unpretentious Victorian household in Holbeach in Lincolnshire, England, he was influenced by his older sister Carrie and by extensive reading of such authors as Herbert Spencer, Huxley, Voltaire,…

Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the , Norwegian Storting The last time the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an individual was in 1964. The prize for that year was given to . Today he is no longer alive. On April 4 of this year, so bitter a year for human rights,…