Peace

The concept of peace ranks among the most controversial in our time. Peace undoubtedly carries a positive connotation; almost nobody admits to opposing peace; world peace is widely seen as one of the most noble goals of humanity. Various groups, however, differ sharply about what peace entails, how best to achieve peace, and whether peace is even truly possible.

Peacemakers

Peacemakers are people who have overcome entrenched violence and conflict through their leadership and vision to achieve peace.

Related Topics:
Leadership - Vision

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Nobel Peace Prize

Main article: Nobel Peace Prize

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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually to notable persons, generally peacemakers and visionaries who have overcome notorious cycles in violence, conflict or oppression through their moral leadership, but also controversially former warmongers and former terrorists who it was believed had helped bring the world closer to ending such situations through exceptional concessions in the attempt to achieve peace.

Related Topics:
Visionaries - Warmongers - Terrorists

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Here is a partial list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates whose award is still considered by some a matter of particular controversy:

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• Theodore Roosevelt (1906 laureate);
• Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964 laureate);
• Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (joint 1973 laureates);
• Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat (1978 laureate);
• Mother Teresa (1979 laureate);
• Nelson Mandela and Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk (joint 1993 laureates);
• Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin (1994 laureates);
• John Hume and David Trimble (joint 1998 laureates);
• Wangari Maathai (2004 laureate).