In this book, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of what the subtitle calls "the most famous and controversial prize in the world.” The Nobel Peace Prize, like the other Nobel prizes, began in 1901. So we have a neat, sweeping history of the 20th century, and about a decade beyond. The Nobel prize involves a first world war, a second world war, a cold war, a terror war, and more. It contends with many of the key issues of modern times, and of life itself.It also presents a parade of interesting people—more than a hundred laureates, not a dullard in the bunch. Some of these laureates have been historic statesmen, such as Roosevelt (Teddy) and Mandela. Some have been heroes or saints, such as Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa. Some belong in other categories—where would you place Arafat? Controversies also swirl around the awards to Kissinger, Gorbachev, Gore, and Obama, to name just a handful.Probably no figure in this book is more interesting than a non-laureate: Alfred Nobel, the Swedish scientist and entrepreneur who started the prizes. The book also addresses "missing laureates,” people who did not win the peace prize but might have, or should have (Gandhi?). Peace, They Say is enlightening and enriching, and sometimes even fun. It has its opinions, but it also provides what is necessary for readers to form their own opinions. What is peace, anyway? All these people who have been crowned "champions of peace,” and the world’s foremost—should they have been? Such is the stuff this book is made on.
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Aarvik, Egil: on Arias, 271; on Corrigan & Williams, 229; on Costa Rica, 269–70; on Dalai Lama, 275–77; on IPPNW, 257; on Myrdal, 246–47; on U.N. Peacekeeping Forces, 272, 339; on Walesa, 251, 253; and Wiesel, 262, 263–64
Abbas, Mahmoud, 306–7
Abdel-Rahman, Omar, 238 abortion, 239
Abrams, Irwin, 58; and Carter, 416; and Myrdal, 245; on Schweitzer, 175
Academy Awards, 2, 318, 413; Inconvenient Truth, 372–73
Adams, Gerry, 325
Addams, Jane, 46, 55, 126–28, 130; and Angell, 132; and Balch, 150
Afghanistan, 230, 234; Soviets in, 244, 278; U.S. aid to, 337
Afghan War, 34, 221, 230; Ebadi on, 352; J. Williams on, 322–24; and Obama, 393, 397; Pérez Esquivel on, 242
African National Congress (ANC): and Lutuli, 188, 190, 300; and Mandela, 253, 300–2
Aftenposten, 38, 358
Agosín, Marjorie, 297 agriculture, 402; of Borlaug, 209–11; of Boyd Orr, 167–69; Sakharov on, 225
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 364
Ahtisaari, Eeva, 377
Ahtisaari, Martti, 54, 375–78; as non-celebrity, 375, 412; career
Ahtisaari, Martti (continued) award, 45, 394; and Sibelius, 87, 376
AIDS, 358–59
Alexander the Great, 62
Alfred Nobel (Bergengren), 10
Allen, Richard V., 329–30
Amano, Yukiya, 363
American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 170
American Friends Service Committee, 20, 153–55, 335; and Abrams, 416; Cold War neutrality, 264; on Kissinger, 216
Amnesty International, 47, 232–34; and MacBride, 221; on Mandela, 300; and Pérez Esquivel, 240; and Salazar regime, 232, 317
Andrei Sakharov Foundation, 227
Andsnes, Leif Ove, 30
And the Sea Is Never Full (Wiesel), 262
Angell, Norman, Sir, 131–32, 143; and Noel-Baker, 186; on Norway, 31; on Vietnam War, 218
Angelou, Maya, 255
Annan, Kofi, 339–44; as anti-Bush winner, 344, 383; education, 366; on Srebrenica, 274, 341; “president of the world,” 360
Another Mother for Peace, 92
anti-Semitism, 120, 145; Bonner on, 227; at Durban conference, 387; see also Israel apartheid, 227, 251; Lutuli on, 3, 188–90, 253; Mandela on, 46, 159, 299–305; and Nazism, 264–65; as popular cause, 286–87, 381; Tutu on, 253–57, 388; Wiesel on, 264–65
Appeal for Amnesty, 232
Aquino, Corazon, 284
Arab–Israeli conflict, 170–71, 235; Blair on, 97, 408; as intractable, 326; Peace Center on, 381; Six-Day War (1967), 184, 235; Yom Kippur War, 217; see also Israel; Middle East; Oslo Accords
Arab Spring, 402–3
Arafat, Yasser, 3, 45, 101, 305–11, 410; on Begin/Sadat prize, 235; Bonner on, 6, 227; and Carter, 348–49; Committee dissent on, 47–48, 307–8; and Peace Center, 381, 382; prize critics, 309–11
Arbatov, Georgi, 279
Arbeiderbladet, 153
Argentina, 240–42, 264
Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, 271–72
Arias Plan (Guatemalan Accord), 267–71
Arias Sánchez, Óscar, 5, 267–72, 396
Aris, Alexander, 292, 294, 403
Aris, Kim, 292, 294
Aris, Michael, 292, 294
Arms Race, The (Noel-Baker), 187
Arnoldson, Klas Pontus, 76–78
Assault on Reason, The (Gore), 382
Asser, Tobias, 79
Atlantic Charter, 167
Atlee, Clement, 55
atomic bomb. See nuclear weapons Aung San, 291
Aung San Suu Kyi, 251, 291–94, 403; and freedom, 95; and Kim Dae-jung, 331
Auschwitz, 34, 260
Australia, 35, 323; and East Timor, 319–20
Avner, Yehuda, 237
Backhouse, Margaret A., 153, 404
Baden-Powell, Robert, Lord, 166
Bajer, Fredrik, 76–77, 91
Baker, Joseph Allen, 186
Balch, Emily Greene, 48, 150–51, 153, 154; on Gandhi, 162
Branting, Hjalmar, 54, 109–10, 133; on “fraternity between nations,” 411–12
Brecht, Bertolt, 159
Brezhnev, Leonid, 159, 221
Briand, Aristide, 5, 115, 117–18; and Pact of Paris, 122, 129–30; tribute to, 133–34
Brinkley, Douglas, 348
Brundtland, Gro Harlem, 30, 295
Buchman, Frank N. D., 55, 166
Buckley, William F., Jr., 94–95
Buisson, Ferdinand, 119–21, 404; on EU concept, 35
Bunche, Ralph, 169–73, 217; on meaningful peace, 102; on “preventive war,” 5, 172, 350; and Rabin, 309
Burgos, Elisabeth, 296–99
Burma (Myanmar), 291–94, 331
Bush, George H. W., 278, 346, 386
Bush, George W.: B. Williams on, 231, 337; and Carter’s prize, 345–46; as “cowboy,” 285, 385–86; and ElBaradei, 360, 362, 364; freedom agenda, 285, 389–90, 398; and Gore, 370; and Mandela, 302, 304–5; Medals of Freedom, 298, 390; vs. Obama, 383–90; and Pérez Esquivel, 243, 337; prizes against, 345, 373, 383–84; Proliferation Security Initiative, 362–63, 368; Tutu on, 256; and UNHRC, 390; on universal values, 395–96; and War on Terror, 337, 345, 355
Butenschøn, Nils, 391
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 46, 126, 129–30, 132, 384; and Carnegie, 129, 165; disarmament plan, 135–36
Byrne, Thomas, 216
Cadbury, Henry Joel, 20, 153–55, 264
Cageprisoners, 234
Câmara, Hélder, 216
Cambodia, 264
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 206, 313
Camp David Accords, 50–51, 173, 234–38
Canada, 182–83
Cannon, Lou, 6–7
Carlsen, Magnus, 30
Carnegie, Andrew, 81, 129; and Kellogg, 123; nomination of, 165
Carnegie Corporation, 170
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 81, 129
Caroline Institute, 24
Carrington, Peter, Lord, 243
Carter, Jimmy, 54, 344–51, 172, 403; and Abrams, 416; “anti-president,” 346; on Begin, 236; and Bush, 345–46, 383–84; and Camp David Accords, 50, 236; on China, 347; on Iraq War, 350; on Israel, 287; music for, 87; on North Korea, 347–48; and Obama, 384, 386; on Palestinians, 288, 348–49; and Sandinistas, 270; and South Korea, 329; White House Diary,...
