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Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. [4] He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela. [5] Annan joined the United Nations in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office.
2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations [13] 2002: Profiles in Courage Award. [14] 2002: The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. [15] 2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [16]
The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death, and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. [5] Unlike the other prizes, the Peace Prize is occasionally awarded to an organisation (such as the International Committee of the Red Cross , a three ...
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. The leader of the U.S. civil rights movement was "the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a ...
The Nobel Prizes, including the prize for Economic Sciences, have been awarded 621 times – 117 physics awards, 115 chemistry awards, 114 for medicine, 116 for literature, 104 for peace and 55 ...
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace is a memoir by former Secretary-General of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kofi Annan.The book, published in 2012, focuses on the workings of the United Nations Secretariat and the conditions under which the Secretary General has to make decisions.
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
Different organisations are responsible for awarding the individual prizes; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics; the Swedish Academy awards the Prize in Literature; the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine; and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. [3]