Toast by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the on May 16, 1904 Dear Mr. Ducommun, when the Committee of the Norwegian Parliament was asked to honor and reward the work of peace, our thoughts immediately turned to the men who have done this work during the long difficult years when it was received with a…

Presentation Speech by Gidske Anderson, Chairperson of the Norwegian Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has made this award in recognition of the leading role he has played in the radical…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Shortly after the atomic bombs were exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, made this statement: “The time has come now, when man must give up war. It is no longer rational to solve international problems by resorting to war. Now that an atomic bomb, such as the bombs…

Francis Sejersted delivering his speech. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our world has for fifty years now been living in the knowledge that weapons exist powerful enough to wipe out human life on earth. The atom bombs…

The Occasion of the First Award The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at a meeting of the Norwegian Parliament which took place at ten o’clock on the morning of December 10, 1901. The ceremony was brief, lasting only fifteen minutes. Mr. Carl Christian Bremer, president of the Parliament, opened it with this brief address:…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the , December 10, 1945 Cordell Hull has devoted his entire life to the stabilization of international relations. Best known to the public are his untiring efforts in the field of commercial policy, efforts inspired by his desire to counteract autarchic tendencies both in the U.S.A. and abroad.…

  Introduction by , Member of the , on April 18, 1906 On behalf of the Nobel Committee, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson introduced the speaker, Baroness Bertha von Suttner, to the audience. In a few words he recalled the great influence of the Baroness on the growth of the peace movement. While still young she had had…

Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Member of the , Norwegian Storting The death of Alfred Nobel at San Remo on December 10, 1896, robbed the world of a highly talented person. At the same time the world was enriched by a document, a testament, which has provided growth and stimulus to the ideals and…

Presentation Speech at Award Ceremony by , Peace Laureate for 1922, on December 10, 1926 No More War We still remember it vividly, that event of over eight years ago. For four long years the world had resounded with the fearful din of the battlefields, the piercing cries of the dying, the forlorn laments of…

Professor Francis Sejersted delivering his speech. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Professor Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the , on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1997, Oslo, December 10, 1997. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, There are those among…