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by Øyvind Tønnesson Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000 The Nobel Peace Prize has frequently caused controversy. One reason is that many Laureates have been contemporary and highly controversial political actors, another is that the Prizes in many instances, have increased public focus on international or national conflicts. In the latter case, the awards have often been…

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(pdf, 291 kB) Norwegianf Nobelforedrag av Malala Yousafzai, Oslo, 10. desember, 2014. Bismillah hir rahman ir rahim. I Guds den nådefulle og mest velgjørendes navn. Deres Majesteter, ærede medlemmer av Den norske Nobelkomiteen, kjære søstre og brødre. Dagen i dag er en svært lykkelig dag for meg. Jeg er beæret over at Nobelkomiteen har valgt…

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Shimon Peres (Labour), Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born in Poland in 1923 and immigrated with his family as a child. He studied at the Ben Shemen Agricultural School, and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Alumot in the Jordan Valley. In 1943, he was elected secretary of the Hano’ar Ha’oved youth. In Israel’s…

Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini was born on 24 August 1929 in Cairo, his father a textile merchant who was a Palestinian with some Egyptian ancestry, his mother from an old Palestinian family in Jerusalem. She died when Yasir, as he was called, was five years old, and he was sent to live with…

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English has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011. The Quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when the democratization process…