'The world's most prestigious prize' : the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize / Geir Lundestad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lundestad, Geir, 1945-2023, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobel Prizes--History.

Nobel Prizes.

History.

Peace--Awards.

Peace.

Peace-building.

Nobel Prize winners--History.

Nobel Prize winners.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the prize, as well as its highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, over the last one-hundred-and-twenty years. But more than that, the book also draws on the author's unique insight during his twenty-five years as Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. It reveals the real story of all the laureates of that period - some of them among the most controversial in the history of the prize (Gorbachev, Arafat, Peres and Rabin, Mandela and De Klerk, Obama, and Liu Xiaobo) - and exactly why they came to receive the prize. Despite all that has been written about the Nobel Peace Prize, this is the first-ever account written by a prominent insider in the Nobel system.

Contents:

The Nobel Peace Prize : past and present

Alfred Nobel and his will

The Nobel Peace Prize, 1901-1914 : arbitration

The Nobel Peace Prize, 1919-1939 : The League of Nations

The Nobel Peace Prize, 1945-2018 : The United Nations

Ten portraits, 1990-2012. Mikhael Gorbachev (1990), Aung San Suu Kyi (1991), Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk (1993), Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin (1994), Kim Dae-jung (2000), The UN and Kofi Annan (2001), Jimmy Carter (2002), Barack H. Obama (2009), Liu Xiabo (2010), The European Union (2012)

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.

ISBN:

0198841876

9780198841876

OCLC:

1084794107