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The Nobel Peace Prize.
In his will, the benefactor of the Nobel awards, Alfred Nobel, stated that prizes should be given to those
who, during the preceding year, "shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind," and that one of the prizes be given
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."
The Nobel Peace Prize...1988
In awarding the 1988 prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that "the Peace-keeping Forces of the United Nations have,
under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has been negotiated but a peace
treaty has yet to be established. In situations of this kind, the UN forces represent the manifest will of the community of
nations to achieve peace through negotiations, and the forces have, by their presence, made a decisive contribution towards
the initiation of actual peace negotiations."
In the 1988 Peace Prize Nobel lecture, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said he hoped the award, and the attention
it generated, would 'not only strengthen our capacity to conduct the affairs of nations in a more peaceful and just manner.
I hope it will also stimulate a wider effort to consider new means and the new institutions which we shall need if we are
to assure our common future.'
This site is dedicated to ALL Peacekeepers!
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