Ahtisaari: Nobel Peace Prize secures continued peace efforts

12/11/2008 :: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to Martti Ahtisaari. "Martti Ahtisaari is a peacebuilder", said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in a press release. + More

12/11/2008 :: The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 is shared between Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. + More

12/12/2007 :: The Nobel Peace Prize Leaurats of 2007, Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, represented by its chairman, R. K. Pachauri, were honoured at a ceremony at the Oslo City Hall on 10 December. + More

Swedish industrial magnate Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), inventor of dynamite, is the man behind the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time of his death, Nobel’s empire consisted of a network of nearly one hundred factories, and he was one of the ... + More