Nobel Peace Prizes - 1993 And 1994

Sometimes the hope for peace works out - 1993 nominees . Frederik de Klerk & Nelson Mandela.

Prize motivation: "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"



Sometimes it doesn't. The 1994 peace prize jointly awarded to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East".

However it works out, we can't stop trying. Please join the November 4 Blogblast for Peace.

1901 - First Nobel Peace Prize

The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 and was equally divided between:

JEAN HENRI DUNANT, Switzerland. Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva; Initiator of the Geneva Convention (Convention de Genève).

FRÉDÉRIC PASSY,   France. Founder and President of the first French peace society (since 1889 it has been called the Société Francaise pour l'arbitrage entre nations).



Nobel Peace Prize

In the run up to the Blogblast for Peace, I'll do some short pieces on the men and women who have won the Nobel peace prize.  Today's is the winner in 1975 - Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov.

In 1975, he was the first Soviet to win the Nobel Peace Prize. After he denounced the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Soviet authorities were quick to respond, exiling him to Gorky. In December 1986, Sakharov's exile ended when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev invited him to return to Moscow. He was subsequently elected to the Congress of People's Deputies as a democratic reformer. Sakharov died in 1989.