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has chosen to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1984 to Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. The Committee has attached importance to Desmond Tutu’s role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa. The means by which this campaign…

Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, delivering the presentation speech for the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, 10 December 1994. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee…

Professor Francis Sejersted delivering his speech. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Professor Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 1998. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On Good Friday this year, an agreement was signed which has rightly been seen as a breakthrough…

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867-January 9, 1961) was born in Boston, the daughter of Francis V. and Ellen (Noyes) Balch. Hers was a prosperous family, her father being a successful lawyer, at one time secretary to United States Senator Charles Sumner. She went to private schools as a young girl; was graduated from Bryn…

David Trimble was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland on 15 October 1944. He was educated at Bangor Grammar School, and graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1968 with a first-class honours degree in Law. He was called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1969, and, in the same year, became a lecturer in Law at…

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