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The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant, who shared a prize of 150,782 Swedish kronor (equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008), and most recently in 2023 to Narges Mohammadi .
Community of Christ. To honor and bring attention to the work of peacemaking and peacemakers in the world (since 1993) United States. Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. Recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace (from 2006) United States. Dialog and Peace Award.
Poobah are a rock band from Youngstown, Ohio, U.S., which was founded in 1972 by Jim Gustafson. [ 1][ 2] The band played classic 70s rock [ 3] or simply rock. [ 4] Especially the first record Let Me in is a rare collector's item. Prices between $300 and $900 for an original are not uncommon. [ 5] Poobah released a total of 14 albums from 1972 ...
C. Caamp. Cathedral Quartet. Champion Band. Cincinnati Tradition Drum and Bugle Corps. Columbus Saints Drum and Bugle Corps.
Betty Williams. Elizabeth Williams ( née Smyth; [2] 22 May 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in ...
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize often provides a boost for a grassroots activist or international group working for peace and human rights, opening doors and elevating the causes for which they fight.
The medal for the Peace Prize was designed by the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland in 1901. Vigeland's profile sculpture of Alfred Nobel differs from Erik Lindberg's profile of Nobel on the chemistry, literature, physics, and physiology or medicine medals. The dies for Vigeland's peace medal were made by Lindberg as Vigeland was not an ...
The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Communist Party of Vietnam Politburo representative Lê Đức Thọ "for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973." Thọ declined to accept the prize, and Kissinger accepted in absentia as he did not want to be targeted by ...