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Nobel Peace Prize for Obama | United States President Barack Obama has been given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 for his extraordinary efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and for
taking landmark initiatives to create a nuclear-free world. Announcing the award
here, an official of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said that Obama was yet to
be informed about the award, and would receive the award on December 10 this year.
He also said that Obama had beaten 205 other nominees for the prestigious award,
which includes a gold medal, a Nobel diploma and 1.4 million dollars. The Nobel
Peace Prize has been awarded 90 times to 120 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and
2009 - 97 times to individuals and 23 times to organizations. Since International
Committee of the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917, 1944 and
1963, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1981, that means 97 individuals and
20 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize
is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor
Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to
the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between
nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding
and promotion of peace congresses." Alfred Nobel's will stated that a committee
of five people elected by the Norwegian Parliament should award the prize. Norway
and Sweden were at that time still in union, and with Sweden responsible for all
foreign policy. Nobel felt that the prize might be less subject to political corruption
if awarded by Norway . The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the
presence of the king, on December 10 (the anniversary of Nobel's death), and is
the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm . " |
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