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Invictus Kicks Off New Campaign for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Linda Milazzo | Posted 12.14.2009 | Los Angeles

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Linda Milazzo

Los Angeles gets a bad rap. It's assailed for being shallow and rarely acknowledged for its good heart. But Los Angeles has a huge heart - at the center of which is pulsating non-stop activism.

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Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum and PEACEJAM on Global Healing

Lys Anzia | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

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Lys Anzia

"During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future," Menchu Tum says with conviction.

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The Nobel Peace Prize Decision: Bringing Out the Worst ... and the Best

Lanny Davis | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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Lanny Davis

In such a dangerous world, isn't it time for everyone to apply once again the historic American tradition that politics should end at the water's edge?

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The Nobel Peace Award Is Not Given for What One Has Done, But Hopefully for What One Will Do

Laura Kiss | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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Laura Kiss

May the American people see this gift of change and work to help President Obama rebuild a nation once loved and now destroyed by the lies of the past.

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Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Bart Motes | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Bart Motes

Obama has given new possibilities to a world that only a year ago was defined by conflict. He's rejected the zero-sum game of the Bush years in favor for respect driven diplomacy.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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Michael Russnow

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

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Kim Dae Jung: A Hero for Peace

Mary Wald | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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Mary Wald

Elegant is the first word that comes to mind. He was warm, with an IQ that kept you mentally running to keep up. He defied death, worked in the face of oppression and gave his all.

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Oxford Top Poet Post Spurs Academic Infighting

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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LONDON _ A fight over who gets to be Oxford University's top poet has set Britain's pens racing _ and weakened the careers of two well-known wordsmith...

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Harold Pinter Does Not Deserve the Post Mortem White-Washing He Is About to Receive

Johann Hari | Posted 01.25.2009 | World

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Johann Hari

Ever since Pinter was a teenager, he was relentlessly contrarian, kicking out violently against anything that might trigger his rage that day.

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Desmond Tutu: We Must Threaten Robert Mugabe With Force

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

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LONDON — Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu said Wednesday that the international community must use the threat of force to oust Zimbabwe's R...

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Nobel Prize Winner: Blogs Might Have Stopped Hitler

AP | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media

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The spread of information on the Internet has given the world a new tool to forestall conflicts, Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le C...

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