Nobel Peace Prize 1993

Nelson Mandela and  
Frederik Willem de Klerk

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

«There isn’t any easy road for the liberty»

  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918.

He is the South Africa’s symbol because he has done a lot of things for the people’s rights.

In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence.

During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily.

Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990.

In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson.

Mandela has already been in precedence winning the Lenin Prize for the peace in 1962 and the Sakharov Prize for the liberty of thought in 1988 and in 1993 he receved the Nobel Peace Prize together with Frederik Willem de Klerk.

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  Frederik Willem de Klerk

Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg on March 18, 1936.

In February 1989, de Klerk was elected leader of the National Party and in September 1989 he was elected State President.

He brought apartheid to an end and opened the way for the drafting of a new constitution for the country based on the principle of one person, one vote.

Source: Nelson Mandela - Wikipedia

                 Frederik Willem de Klerk - Wikipedia

Giuseppina

                                                                                                                        

Cathedral

I push open the heavy wooden door and enter my cathedral

the awakening sun yawns and stretches
sending tendrils of light
that weave their way through the stained glass windows
erasing the darkness
and illuminating dust particles
The air is softly pugent ...
the perfume of frankinsence
lingers
clinging to silent prayers
I lie down
and put my cheek on the cool stone floor
polished smooth
by the feet of a thousand pilgramages

.... and I remember who I am

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Nobel Peace Prize 1901

The Nobel Peace Prize was announced by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and was awarded for the first time in 1901.

Frédéric Passy

Frederic Passy was a political and a French economist, he was born in Paris on May 20, 1822 and died on June 12, 1912. The tradition of the French civil service was strong in Passy’s family in fact educated as a lawyer, Frederic Passy entered the civil service.

He is famous because he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 because it was the founder and the president of “Société française pour l'arbitrage entre nations”.

This society was born because he wanted in 1867 tried to avert possible war between France and Prussia, he founded the «Ligue internationale et permanente de la paix». When the society became a casualty of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, he reorganized it under the title «Société française des amis de la paix» after the company was called «Société française pour l'arbitrage entre nations», established in 1889 and later Passy became known as the «apostle of peace».

Henry Dunant

Henry Dunant was a  Swiss humanist and a philanthropist entrepreneur. He was born on May 8, 1828 into a wealthy home and he died on June 12, 1912 in a hospice. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 (the first year it was awarded this recognition) for founding the Red Cross. Dunant poured his money and time into the cause, traveled over most of Europe obtaining promises from governments to sent representatives. Today the Red Cross is the greatest humanitarian organization of the world.. He devoted himself to the issue of the abolition of slavery.

Leandro, Simona and Tatiana

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1901/passy-bio.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1901/dunant-bio.html

5th November in the UK

Bonfire night

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot...

Guy Fawkes is the everlasting hero we cannot forget

Can you find anything similar in the town where you live?
and what about?

Nobel Peace Prize 1994

In 1994 Yasser Arafat (the leader of ALP), Shimon Peres (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel) and Yithzak Rabin (Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel) won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to create the peace in Middle East.

Since many years the conflicts between Palestine and Israel neighbour states were the must menacing for the international politics and have caused suffering for many people.

With many accords especially the Oslo Accord, Arafat, Rabin and Peres have made a contribute to make peace among this countries by cooperation to replace the hate.

by Emanuele and Francesco

Clinton, Arafat and Rabin after the Washington Accord

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/press.html

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Nobel Peace Prize 1964

Martin Luther King Jr.

“I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY THIS NATION WILL RISE UP AND LIVE OUT THE TRUE MEANING OF ITS CREED”.

“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT ,THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL”

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968).In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi.

In 1964, at the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

" WHO PASSIVELY ACCEPTS EVIL IS AS RESPONSIBLE AS THOSE WHO COMMIT"

"LAW AND ORDER WILL BE RESPECTED ONLY WHEN WILL GRANT THE JUSTICE

ALL THOSE ALIKE"

"NOT AFRAID OF THE EVIL OF THE WICKED,BUT THE SILENCE OF THE HONEST"

"LOVE IS THE ONLY FORCE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING AN ENEMY INTO A

FRIEND"

"IT IS ALWAYS THE RIGHT TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING"

by Antonino and Ippolito