Peace
With fascism on the doorstep: The Nobel Institution in Norway, 1940-1945
Facts
by Øyvind Tønnesson Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000 During the Second World War no Nobel Peace Prize was awarded. Under the German occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945 normal political activity was banned, and there was little the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting could do except postpone the prize awards and defend its integrity.…
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Alva Myrdal – Biographical
Biographical
Alva Myrdal was born in Uppsala in 1902, graduated from University in 1924, and married the same year. Together with her husband she made a major contribution in the 1930s to the work of promoting social welfare. They were joint authors of a book entitled “The population problem in crisis”, and she was also actively…
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Press release
Press release
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2000 to Kim Dae-jung for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular. In the course of South Korea’s decades of authoritarian rule, despite…
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