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Article: Who Has Won The Peace Prize?
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2000
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The Nobel Committee has given the wording in Alfred Nobel's will a relatively broad interpretation. One reason is that the very concept of peace has changed in meaning since his day. The Prize has been won by persons with very dissimilar backgrounds: statesmen and revolutionaries, pacifists and generals, philosophers and practical men of action from many countries and cultural spheres.
In the first years of the Peace Prize, up to World War I, it was often awarded to pioneers of organized peace work. Many were parliamentarians and leaders of associations committed in particular to international arbitration. Several had their greatest achievements behind them when ...