Friday, October 11, 2013

Nobel Peace Prize 2013

For the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans have inhabited this planet.
Our civilization ancestry goes to some thousand years only..
Humans gained all knowledge and development in last some 100 years or so..
And these last few 100 years have witnessed the bloody wars we have fought among our own kind.
Perhaps that is self indicative of our nature..that we humans need peace efforts more than anything.
Now our own creations..man made chemicals..altered genes, are going to cost much more.
Perhaps the civilization to which we have grown in last some hundred years is at stake..
Perhaps we already have done so, many a time in our past years of in habitation on earth through all those 200,000 years..
Who knows..
What does it matter..
We keep on forgetting..
Our Diary Undated..

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons".

 Commenting on the award, the committee panel said: "The conventions and the work of the OPCW have defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law. Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons."

 

OPCW - Facts

Established: 1997
Headquarters: The Hague, Netherlands
Membership: 189 states
It is the 25th time a Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to an organization.

The OPCW's Ahmet Uzumcu said the prize would spur the organisation's efforts

"A Great Incentive!"

Director-General of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ahmet Üzümcü, comments on his organization receiving the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.

Arms Control and Disarmament

Several Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded for work within the field of arms control and disarmament.

Nobel's Will and the Peace Prize

Alfred Nobel left no explanation as to why the Peace Prize was to be awarded by a Norwegian committee while the other four prizes were to be handled by Swedish committees.
 Did you know ? 94 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded 1901-2013. 2 Peace Prizes have been divided between three persons. 15 women have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so far. 62 is the average age of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates the year they were awarded the prize. 1 Peace Prize Laureate, Le Duc Tho, has declined the Nobel Peace Prize. 3 Peace Prize Laureates have been under arrest at the time of the award: German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky, Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi and Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.

11th October is observed as international day of girl child....
Women in turn have played greater role for the purpose of peace on our blue planet....the only home of earthlings !!
15 women have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so far.
 
Leymah Gbowee
2011
Liberia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2011
Liberia
 
Wangari Muta Maathai
2004
Kenya

Shirin Ebadi
2003
Iran
Jody Williams
1997
USA
Rigoberta Menchu
1992
Guatemala
 
Aung San Suu Kyi
1991
Burma

Alva Myrdal
1982
Sweden
Mother Teresa
1979
India/Macedonia
Mairead Corrigan
1976
Ireland
Betty Williams
1976
UK
Emily Green Balch
1946
USA
Jane Addams
1931
USA
Bertha von Suttner
1905
Austria-Hungary








thankfully shared from: 
http://www.nobelprize.org/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10370215/Nobel-Peace-Prize-winners-from-1901-2013.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/10371735/Nobel-Peace-Prize-2013-as-it-happened.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24490925
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nobel-peace-prize-2013-goes-to-syria-chemical-weapons-watchdog-8873601.html












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