Peace Prize

I had the honor of meeting and interviewing one of these women, distinguished Iranian jurist and Nobel peace-prize winner Shirin Ebadi. ❋ Unknown (2010)

CL: Gordon Wood, if there's a connection to be made across more than two centuries to the "realism" and "idealism" of President Obama's peace-prize speech, you're the man to make it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

America's third peace-prize winner, in contrast, has been the subject of little public notice, and has passed up every opportunity to parley his award into riches or personal distinction. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Aside from the journalists, only a few well-wishers turned out to greet the Nobel peace-prize winner - a far cry from the scenes of last February when ElBaradei was met by more than 1,000 supporters on his triumphant return. ❋ Peter Beaumont (2011)

Several prominent politicians, including Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel peace-prize laureate, pointedly refused to accept an invitation to meet the generals in an attempt to restore calm. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Some activists - such as the Nobel peace-prize winner Shirin Ebadi - go further by demanding that sanctions should be extended to western companies and banks that do business with Iran; among them, technology companies (such as Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson) whose products can be used for surveillance and censorship. ❋ OpenDemocracy (2010)

Just like the wars that expand the empire of bases, the empire itself is expanding under the peace-prize president. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese jailbird who is the new Nobel peace-prize laureate, into an optimist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

President Obama, last year's peace-prize winner, called for Liu's immediate release. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The peace-prize award lands in the middle of a brewing debate among the Chinese leadership and the elite over whether to begin political reforms and, if so, how quickly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With 20 plastic smiles gazing at him across the table, does he preface a reference to car factories, hypermarkets and science partnerships with a nervous cough and a Forgive me, prime minister, if I mention a certain freedom-loving peace-prize winner ❋ Unknown (2010)

After the Nobel prizes were established in 1901, the Norwegians were entrusted with choosing the peace-prize winner because of their track record as objective 19th-century arbitrators.

Then again, if you review the history, and hold some previous American peace-prize winners to the same lofty standards as modern critics would hold Obama, you'll realize that they hardly have unassailable track records. ❋ JOHAN BERGENÄS (2009)