Category - Nobel Peace Prize

Quakers gear up to celebrate 60 years since Nobel Peace Prize award

staff writers — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:36:30 +0000

Quakers are gearing up to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their award of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Irish Nobel peace laureate shot by Israeli military

staff writers — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:34:06 +0100

Famous Irish peace activist Mairead Maguire has been hit with a rubber bullet fired by the Israeli military at a non-violent protest Ramallah on the West Bank.

Archbishop Tutu laments Israeli block on his fact-finding mission

staff writers — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

South African Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says it is distressing that Israel blocked a planned mission by him and British professor Christine Chinkin to investigate the killing of 19 Palestinian civilians by Israeli shells - writes Peter Kenny for Ecumenical News International.

Bono is hot tip for Nobel Peace Prize

staff writers — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0100

Peace scholar and journalist Scott A. Hunt has predicted that this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize will be U2 frontman and debt relief activist Bono (Paul David Hewson).