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Nobel Peace Prize: the winners and the winning

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*Mahfoud Ismail Yassine *Boumama Anes *Youcef Mohamed Amine *Tabheriti Mostafa *Bellouti Ibrahim *Meliani Ali *Bouziri Ahmed

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* introduction …………......................

* nobel peace prize winners ………

* definition of nobel prize …………

* Some nominees for future nobel peace prize

*our gift to world peace………….

Introduction:PEACE IS A STATE OF HARMONY CHARACTERIZED BY THE LACK OF VIOLENT CONFLICT AND THE FREEDOM FROM FEAR OF VIOLENCE. COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD AS THE ABSENCE OF HOSTILITY, PEACE ALSO SUGGESTS THE EXISTENCE OF HEALTHY OR NEWLY HEALED INTERPERSONAL OR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS, PROSPERITY IN MATTERS OF SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC WELFARE, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EQUALITY.

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Nobel peace prize medal

 IS A SET OF ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL AWARDS BESTOWED IN A NUMBER OF CATEGORIES BY THE SCANDINAVIAN COMMITTEES IN RECOGNITION OF CULTURAL AND/OR SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES. THE WILL OF THE SWEDISH PHILANTHROPIST INVENTOR ALFRED NOBEL ESTABLISHED THE PRIZES IN 1895. THE PRIZES IN PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE, LITERATURE, AND PEACE WERE FIRST AWARDED IN 1901.

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Nobel peace prize ceremony

Barack Hussein ObamaEllen Johnson Sirleaf

Leymah Gbowee  Tawakul Karman 

Yasser Arafat

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS

His born :Obama was born on August 4, 1961,in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is the first President to have been born in Hawaii. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was of mostly English ancestry. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Kenya. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian class, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. He died in an automobile accident in 1982.

Barack Hussein Obama

Obama lived with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. Of his early childhood, Obama recalled, "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind." He described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. Reflecting later on his years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered—to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect—became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear." Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College. In1981, he made his first public speech, calling for Occidental to divest from South Africa in response to its policy of apartheid. Later in 1981, he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations .

State Senator: Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, Once elected, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation that reformed ethics and health care laws. He sponsored a law that increased tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare.

In 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority. He sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they detained, and legislation ; police representatives credited Obama for his active engagement with police organizations in enacting death penalty reforms.

Presidency :The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President took place on January 20, 2009. In his first few days in office, Obama issued executive orders and presidential memoranda directing the U.S. military to develop plans to withdraw troops from Iraq.He ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, but Congress prevented the closure by refusing to appropriate the required funds. Obama reduced the secrecy given to presidential records. He also revoked President George W. Bush's restoration of President .

Initial reactions about his nobel peace prize award :

Obama said he was "surprised" and "deeply humbled" by the award. He stated that he does not feel he deserved it, and that he did not feel worthy of the company the award would place him in. In remarks given at the White House Rose Garden on the day of the announcement, Obama stated, "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations."

“To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism -- it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.”—Barack Obama

Leymah Roberta Gbowee was honored for her work for peace within Liberia.   Herself a mother, she worked as a counselor with former child soldiers after the First Liberian Civi l War.   In 2002, she organized women across Christian and Muslim l ines to pressure both factions for peace in the Second Liberian Civi l War, and this peace movement helped to bring to an end that war .

  Liberian President Eln Johnson Sirleaf was one.  Born in Monrovia, she studied economics, including study in the United States, culminating in a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard.  A part of government from 1972 and 1973 and 1978 to 1980, she escaped assassination during a coup, and finally fled to the U.S. in 1980. She has worked for private banks as well as for the World Bank and the United Nations. After losing in the 1985 elections, she was arrested and imprisoned and fled for the U.S. in 1985.  She ran against Charles Taylor in 1997, fleeing again when she lost, then after Taylor was ousted in a civil war, won the 2005 presidential election, and has been widely recognized for her attempts to heal the divisions within Liberia.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf:

Leymah Gbowee :

Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded to three women "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work," with the head of the Nobel committee saying "We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society" (Thorbjorn Jagland).

Tawakul Abdel-Salam Khaled Kerman, known Tawakul Karman (7 February 1979 in Taiz, Yemen -) is a journalist and writer, president of Women Journalists Without Chains and activist holds a Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, and before that was the literary and poet. It is one of the most prominent defenders of press freedom and women's rights and human rights in Yemen and emerged dramatically after the popular youth revolution .Called youth revolution and opponents Yemenis name or revolution and Queen Bilqis second, and after receiving the Nobel Prize was launched by Egyptian newspapers and Arab name Lady Arab spring, the smallest holds a Nobel Peace Prize since its inception in YouTube, a member of the Advisory Board of Transparency International, a member of the Committee UN high-level to draw a new vision of the world, a member of Consultative Council (the Central Committee) party Yemeni Grouping for Reform JMP, which represents current (opposition) and represents the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen, and whose organization Women Journalists Without Chains, one of the most important civil society organizations in Yemen and a member of the network Yemeni Human Rights

Tawakul Karman :

Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini ;;he was born in 24 August 1929 , popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242. Arafat and his movement operated from several Arab countries. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fatah faced off with Jordan in a brief civil war. Forced out of Jordan and into Lebanon, Arafat and Fatah were major targets of Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions of that country.

Yasser Arafat

Later in his career, Arafat engaged in a series of negotiations with the government of Israel to end the decades-long conflict between it and the PLO. These included the Madrid Conference of 1991, the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2000 Camp David Summit. His political rivals, including Islamists and several PLO leftists, often denounced him for being corrupt or too submissive in his concessions to the Israeli government. In 1994 Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas and other militant organizations rose to power and shook the foundations of the authority that Fatah under Arafat had established in the Palestinian territories.

In late 2004, after effectively being confined within his Ramallah compound for over two years by the Israeli army, Arafat became ill, fell into a coma and died on 11 November 2004 at the age of 75. The cause of his illness is disputed.

FUTURE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS

Abd el Aziz BouteflikaLakhdar Brahimi

Aminatou hayder

In Algeria :Our contemporary history knows two Algerian personalities who focused their efforts to make peace and to settle internal and external disputes.

Was 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.

Abdel Aziz Bouteflika:

is a national hero before and after his election as Algeria’s president, because he could bring back the peace to our country. He forgave the next month of his election, on the occasion of Independence Day, 2300 jailed terrorist and presented the National Harmony Law which provide amnesty for AIS (Islamic Salvation Army) members. Moreover, he improved the relations with the other countries and he declared that the fate of Western Sahara is an Algerian and an international matter. In addition, he gave a special attention to the religious foundation thus he could promote a culture of peace. In his foreign policy, He saved the African and the Mediterranean Basin countries from the scourge of terrorism.

Mr.Abdel Aziz Bouteflika

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.

 Awarding Nobel peace prize to these personalities will really encourage the efforts which want to keep peace. Moreover, it will contribute in making peace in Algeria and Africa and middle-east countries.Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi was appointed to lead a panel of investigation on United Nations staff security in the wake of the December 11th, 2007 Algiers bombings, on February 5th by the Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. In addition, He was one of the founders of the Journal of Palestine Studies called “La revue d'étude palestinienne”. Brahimi was also chairman of the Panel of United Nations Peace Operations, which produced the influential Brahimi Report.    

Lakhdar Brahimi:

-Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar : is a Sahrawi human rights activist and an advocate of the independence of Western Sahara. She is sometimes called the "Sahrawi Gandhi" for her nonviolent protests. She is the president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA). She was imprisoned from 1987 to 1991 and from 2005 to 2006 on charges related to her independence advocacy. In 2009, she attracted international attention when she staged a hunger strike inLanzarote Airport after being denied re-entry into Morocco.

Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar :

-Her Awards and recognition :Haidar has won several international awards in recognition of her human rights work. In December 2005, she won the V Juan María Bandrés Award of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR) . Due to her imprisonment, she could not receive the award until May 2006. In 2007, she was awarded the Silver Rose Award of SOLIDAR, a European network of NGOs. The annual award acknowledges "the outstanding achievements of individuals and organizations who are active in the fight for social justice." In 2008, Haidar won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award of the US-based Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. In addition to the prize (which includes a financial component), the RFK Memorial Center offers to partner with recipients in their work. US Senator Edward Kennedy stated that "all who care about democracy, human rights, and the rule of law for the people of the Western Sahara are inspired by her extraordinary courage, dedication and skilled work on their behalf." Haidar was also awarded the 2009 Civil Courage Prize of the Train Foundation. Prize founder John Train stated, "A healthy society relies on civil courage, and we hope that by recognizing it in people like Aminatou Haidar, we can encourage others to follow in her footsteps and defend peacefully their civil rights." -

In 2010, 40 members of the European Parliament nominated Haidar for the organization's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought. EP memberWilly Meyer Pleite  denounced a campaign of letters by Morocco protesting the possible awarding of the prize to Haidar. The prize was eventually awarded to Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas. Haidar has also been named an honorary citizen or otherwise decorated by numerous Spanish and Italian towns. In May 2008, she was awarded a Special Prize by the city council of Castelldefels, Spain. In January 2010, the Italian municipality of Sesto Fiorentino appointed Haidar as an "Honorary Citizen" of the village, for her "non-violent struggle for liberty and human rights for her people". Days later, another Italian municipality,Campi Bisenzio, decided by a majority to grant her "Honorary Citizenship". In March 2010, the town of Leganés, Spain, awarded her its Dolores Ibárruri Prize. . On 30 July 2010, another ten towns from the Italian province of Lucca gave honorary citizenship to Haidar. One of them ,Stazzema, also gave her the "Gold Medal of Resistance". A further 20 Italian towns later named Aminatou Haidar an "Honorary Citizen". On 27 July 2011, Haidar was made an honorary citizen of the Italian commune of Montespertoli as a "concrete gesture of condemnation of the violence being perpetrated by the Moroccan authorities".The city council of San Fernando de Henares, Spain, awarded her its Jesús Andrés López Gallardo prize. In 10 November 2011, she was awarded the René Cassin Human Rights Prize, given by the Justice department of the Basque Country government; the prize came with an award of 16,550 euros.

HOW IMPORTANT IS PEACE IN OUR LIFE?

PEACE IS THE ESSENCE OF OUR EXISTENCE. IT IS THE FREEDOM TO PURSUE OUR DREAM. IT IS OUR ABILITY TO EXPRESS

OURSELVES. IT IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO RELATE WITH OTHERS WITH UNDERSTANDING, GOOD WILL AND COOPERATION. IT IS A

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Researches from :*Wikipedia:the free encyclopedia……………………………………….* the officiel site of the nobel prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/*Our facebook page for peace called « Just Peace »Designer:*Mahfoud Yassine Ismail…………………………Researchers :*Youcef Mohamed amine …………………………*bellouti ibrahim……………………………………….*anes Boumama……………………………………….*Tabheriti Mostafa………………………………….*Bouziri Ahmed …………………………………….*Meliani Ali…………………………………………..