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To: veronica
No doubt. Didn't they give one of these silly prizes to Yasser Arafat a while back? What a joke.
10 posted on 10/11/2002 12:51:17 PM PDT by Notforprophet
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To: Notforprophet
Peace Prize Winners since WW-II (nah, there's no politics going on in here...):

2002 Jimmy Carter Jr.
2001 United Nations (U.N.), Kofi Annan
2000 Kim Dae-jung
1999 Doctors Without Borders
1998 John Hume, David Trimble
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), Jody Williams
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1995 Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993 Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1989 The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1988 United Nations Peace-keeping Forces
1987 Oscar Arias Sanchez
1986 Elie Wiesel
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1983 Lech Walesa
1982 Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979 Mother Teresa
1978 Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
1977 Amnesty International
1976 Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
1975 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1974 Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
1973 Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
1972 -none-
1971 Willy Brandt
1970 Norman E. Borlaug
1969 International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)
1968 René Cassin
1967 -none-
1966 -none-
1965 United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
1964 Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
1962 Linus Carl Pauling
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld
1960 Albert John Lutuli
1959 Philip J. Noel-Baker
1958 Georges Pire
1957 Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 -none-
1955 -none-
1954 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1953 George Catlett Marshall
1952 Albert Schweitzer
1951 Léon Jouhaux
1950 Ralph Bunche
1949 Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
1948 -none-
1947 Friends Service Council (The Quakers), American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
1946 Emily Greene Balch, John Raleigh Mott
1945 Cordell Hull
1944 International Committee of the Red Cross

18 posted on 10/11/2002 1:05:30 PM PDT by alancarp
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To: Notforprophet
Yes and...we don't need the Nobel to acknowledge the greatness and peace loving efforts of our beloved President George W. Bush. The Nobel Committee means nothing to me and a lot of others. President Bush means a lot to me and a lot of others. :)
45 posted on 10/11/2002 2:07:07 PM PDT by cubreporter
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