The Politics Behind the Peace Prize
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Alfred Nobel created the peace prize more than a century ago, but it is the Norwegian Nobel Committee that decides who gets it.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Nobel chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos in Oslo City Hall.
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Sometimes what at first seems like a minor change can actually signal major shift in understanding. Last week, Kenyan deputy environment minister Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize - a wonderful achievement for two reasons.
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Former Czech president Vaclav Havel is a  favorite to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize while President Bush  is a rank outsider, the first bookmaker to take bets on the  award said on Thursday.
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Wangari Maathai rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa - poor women. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was praised by the awarding committee as &quot;a source
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari  Maathai said Friday she had been told by a Norwegian diplomat  that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Can artists do a better job than politicians at portraying politics as appealing? This is a question posed by the four contenders for this year&#39;s Turner art prize at Tate Britain.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - South African AIDS  campaigner Zackie Achmat knows he's a long shot for the Nobel  Peace Prize, but says his nomination is already a victory for  the millions of people around the world battling the epidemic.
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OSLO - The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Kenyan environmentalist last week added a new green dimension to the prize, but critics accused the Nobel committee of betraying a century-old focus on resolving armed conflicts.
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OSLO - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, who yesterday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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The 2004 Nobel prizes will be announced between October 4 and 11, the Nobel Foundation said, with US president George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the running for the prestigious Peace Prize.
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The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Wangari Maathai. The African native is an environmentalist and human rights campaigner.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war, Cicero once said, but it may also be the dividend of peace -- especially for gamblers who can now place bets online on the person or organisation they think is going to be named the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901...
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Former Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu does not mince his words. Known as a straight talker, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was a thorn in the flesh of successive apartheid regimes in South Africa until the demise of white rule in 1994.
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The guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards ends this week with the announcement of the 2004 Nobel Prize winners.
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Nairobi - The Kenyan press on Saturday unanimously hailed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to environmentalist Wangari Maathai and called for a fresh look at ideals she had stood and made so much sacrifices for.