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Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that President Barack Obama deserves his Nobel Peace Prize based on his achievements and the promise of an aggressive agenda that he's still working to fulfill.
One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing.
Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.
The Irish National Liberation Army, an IRA splinter group responsible for some of the most notorious killings of the Northern Ireland conflict, renounced violence Sunday and signaled it could hand over weapons soon to disarmament officials.
There are four women and one man on the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Members are elected by Norwegian lawmakers so the panel reflects the political makeup of Parliament. The five members are:
— The committee does not release the names of any candidates and keeps records sealed for 50 years.
The announcement drew gasps of surprise and cries of too much, too soon. Yet President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday because the judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too good to ignore.
An award that generates as much interest as the Nobel Peace Prize is bound to be surrounded by myths. Geir Lundestad, secretary of the secretive committee that awards the prize, outlines for The Associated Press some of the most common misunderstandings:
Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors — a group of Israelis who installed solar panels and wind turbines to illuminate the Palestinians' makeshift homes.
President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
OSLO — An award that generates as much interest as the Nobel Peace Prize is bound to be surrounded by myths. Geir Lundestad, secretary of the secretive committee that awards the prize, outlines for The Associated Press some of the most common misunderstandings:
Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the 60th since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday and challenges leaders to take responsibility for challenges facing the world.
Cuba's official press said Friday that a Colombian rock star's nerves got the better of him before last weekend's historic "peace concert" in Havana, causing an outburst against authorities in which he threatened to cancel the show.
Jerusalem divided by a series of fences, trenches and walls. The West Bank and Gaza linked by a sunken highway. Palestinians and Israelis trading land that would require 100,000 Jewish settlers to move.
Some of the shack dwellers of Jeffsville recently had an idea: Why not stage a march to demand government housing some had been awaiting for 18 years?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants to make "economic peace" with the Palestinians, and the first fruits are already being seen in eased Israeli restrictions that are stoking a retail and entertainment boom in the West Bank.
For the 17th year in a row, Israeli and Palestinian teenagers have come together at a summer camp in the western Maine woods to make new friendships, understand each other's dreams and fears, and possibly lay a groundwork for peace in the Middle East.
President Barack Obama is sending his special Middle East peace envoy to Europe next week for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed at quickly restarting negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The former rebels pass their days on an old research farm now set behind a tall barbed-wire fence, a place of flimsy wooden buildings, weed-filled roads and laundry strung from the volleyball net.
The U.N. Security Council sent a strong message to Israel on Monday that the international community is demanding "urgent efforts" to create a separate Palestinian state and achieve an overall Mideast peace settlement.
A dozen Afghan warlords-turned-lawmakers came to Dublin on Tuesday to explore the lessons of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
Graffiti on the Catholic side of town condemn Sinn Fein politicians as British stooges. Alongside black-stenciled images of masked gunmen, slogans proclaim allegiance to IRA dissidents who fatally shot a policeman a few miles away.
When Irish Republican Army dissidents gunned down their first British security forces in more than a decade, they hoped to provoke a steely security crackdown and tit-for-tat attacks that would drag Belfast back into the bad old days.
Amb. Michael Oren's Speech at the 2009 GAThis is Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren giving his speech to the General Assembly of Jewish Organizations on Nov. 9th, 2009
New Yorker: The Gaza Invasion, What Really HappenedEvery opportunity for peace in the Middle East has been led to slaughter, and at this isolated desert crossing, on June 25, 2006, another moment of promise culminated in bloodshed.
The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlinesA feisty Robert Fisk takes on the "White House-State Department-Pentagon-CNN-Downing Street-Defence Ministry-BBC military-political-journalistic complex..."
"The Art of War" Should Be Used to Promote Lasting Peace, Development: OfficialArt of War used to promote lasting peace.
Government = CorruptionIf you have wondered why the government always seems to do the bidding of the rich and powerful, check this article out and get a clue.
REDDIT! Jon Stewart needs your support!Wednesday night, Jon Stewart hosted two Israel/Palestine peace activists. The reaction from the pro-Israel crowd has been BRUTAL and it's important we show our support and appreciation for the honest discussion of the issues.
The Berlin Wall: what really made it fall | csmonitor.comCandles and prayers! Twenty years ago something totally unexpected happened when the walls of communism came down. Enjoy a little added bit of the story and be encouraged in your struggle for world peace. Remember, "we are the people".
Free Speech and Religion - Worth Fighting ForWith all the news around Afghanistan helicopter crashes and Obama's decision NOT to decide yet about sending more troops, the media seems to have overlooked a story that one soldier - and blogger - Jeff Courter - comments on here.
John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses.I was reading this a couple of days ago and wondered to myself...how would he feel about the parties today... or they about him?
Abbas to Obama: I'll quit, there's no chance for peace with Netanyahu Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. President Barack Obama that he intends to resign his post, Channel 10 television reported on Monday.
Awakening to the MotherMy thesis is that once upon a time we lived in peace and harmony on Mother Earth, in gratitude for the gift of life. Although that time has been erased from our conscious memory and most of our history books, it did exist. We see the desperate state of our world today.
Hamas Hamas top dog: "Jerusalem's fate will be decided with jihad and resistance, and not negotiations"Following a conflagration of violence at Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal declared that "Jerusalem's fate will be decided with jihad (holy war) and resistance, and not negotiations."
I've been wondering about the Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize thing for a while now. Either Obama has achieved incredible believability in record time or they've changed the Nobel Prize requirement from "creating change" to "pledging to make a change".
Koran verses 'appear' on skin of miracle Russian babyThousands of pilgrims queued up this week in blazing sunshine to get a glimpse of 9-month-old baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body verses from the Koran are said to appear and fade every few days.
Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J., on true peace and the Nobel "Peace" PrizeI, for my part, strongly object to his being awarded the Peace prize because of his policies to spread violence to the most peaceful places on earth.
Israel/Palestine Coexistence: The Seeds of Peace Experience""You are all dirty terrorists!" "Your soldiers are monsters! They wear uniforms that say – 'Kill Palestinians.'" "We have no water.
The Nobel Prize for Good IntentionsIt is just astounding to think that neither Mahatma Gandhi nor Pope John Paul II received this Prize in their lifetimes, a fact that speaks volumes about the Scandinavians' sense of what constitutes true peace-making.
Nobel prize story leads to expulsion of journalist the country of Chad expelled a journalist who criticized a government official's suggestion that the president of Chad was fit for the nobel peace prize.
Italy denies paying Taliban to keep peace in Afghan areaROME - Italy and NATO yesterday denied a newspaper report that Italian intelligence secretly paid the Taliban thousands of dollars to keep the peace in an Afghan area under Italian control.
The latest rage these days isn't the segway or an even the iPod. It's Twitter.
Latest conservative attack on Obama Nobel: Prize is "unconstitutional""Following the Nobel Committee's announcement that it would award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, conservative media figures have launched numerous attacks on Obama and the award, asserting, for instance, that Obama won the prize "for trashing America," in Sean Hannity' …
Debacle in Moscow by Charles Krauthammer"About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, h …
Friday's announcement that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize seemed to take everyone by surprise. Cynics scolded the Nobel Committee, claiming the freshman President has not done enough to earn the prize.
The Orwell Peace PrizeAn interesting discussion of Obama's surge in Afghanistan, his expansion of the War of Terror into Pakistan, and how that relates to the Orwellian decision to award him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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