A short historical background
The Nobel peace prize is one of five prestigious prizes awarded every year to those who make efforts to preserve peace. The first prize was given to Henry Dunant in 1901.This prize is bequeathed by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, who wanted to use his fortune to serve the humanity. The winners of the prize are chosen by the Nobel institute in Oslo .On the 10th December of each year, The Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee presents the prize in the presence of the king of Norway. The Nobel laureate receives a diploma, a medal and a document confirming the prize amount
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List of Nobel peace prize winner of he last decade
1999 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES), Brussels, Belgium.
2000 Kim Dae Jung Korea
2001 Kofi Anan & the U.N. U.S.A.
2002 Jimmy Carter USA
2003 Sherin Ebadi IRAN
2004 Wangari Muta Maathai Kenya
2005 Mohammad el Baradei Egypt
2006 Mohammad Yunus Bangladesh
2007 INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) &ALBERT ARNOLD ( AL) GORE JR. Geneva, Switzerland
2008 MARTTI AHTISAARI Finland
2009 Barack Obama U.S.A.
5 Sherin Ebadi: Nobel peace prize winner of 2003.She was born on 2nd June 1947, In Iran. in 1962,she was graduated from the law faculty of Teheran .In 1975 she was the First Female Iranian Judge, but the Iranian revolution forced her to resign and work as an attorney. She founded a Society for Protecting the Child's Rights in Iran , in 1994.she got the Rafto prize which is a human rights prize in Norway.
Mohammad el Baradei. He was born in Egypt, on 17th June 1942.He studied in Cairo University and in New York law university where he got the PhD in 1974.In 1964 he Began career in Egyptian Diplomatic Service. in 1997, He started his work as a Director General of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)
He is a peace man who made important efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes. So he won worthily the
Mohammad Yunus: was born on 28th June 1940, in Chittagon, Bangladesh. He got the PhD of economics from Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he pioneered the idea of Gram Sacker. In 1976, he founded Grameen bank which gives credits for poor persons. His important efforts to create economic and social development from below and fight against poverty, made him win many prizes like: the World Food Prize in 1994, the Freedom Prize in 1995 and the Nobel peace prize in 2006
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Future Nobel peace prize winners
In Algeria : Our contemporary history knows two Algerian personalities who focused their efforts to make peace and to settle internal and external disputes.
1. Abd el Aziz Bouteflika: Born on the 2nd of March 1937, in Oujda to a family from Tlemcen. Abdelaziz Bouteflika joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) in 1956. After the independence in 1962, he became Minister for Youth and Sport than Minister for Foreign Affairs until 1978. In April 1999,
Bouteflika ran for the presidential elections and was elected officially with 74% of the votes. His election seems a turning point in the civil war that started in January 1992.
2. Lakhdar Brahimi: a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He was born on January 1st, 1934, in Algeria. He was the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan and Iraq. Before his appointment in 2001 by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, he had served the U.N. as special representative to Haiti and to South Africa. .He retired from his duties at
the end of 2005.