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Obama's Nobel Prize Is Really a Tribute to American Voters

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: World Peace, International Institutions, Nobel Peace Prize, Neo-Cons, What Do People Think of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize?, President Obama, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News
Robert Creamer

This award celebrates the fact that American voters chose a President committed to progressive values, instead of pre-emptive war and the Neo-Con theories of unilateral action.

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Dear Mr. President: Make This a Real Peace Prize

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Deepak Chopra

Peace begins with those who have the power to make peace. Obama stands in a unique position in this regard. We've turned the corner from Bush's belligerence, but avowing peace isn't the same as action.

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I Accept Your Peace Prize: An Open Letter to the Nobel Committee

Noam Biale | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: 2008 Elections, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Obama Nobel, World Affairs, World Peace, World News
Noam Biale

This year's prize is a recognition not just of nine months of leadership, but of a generation of civil rights struggle that culminated in November's election.

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On the Politics of Giving and Receiving -- Obama and the Peace Prize

MJR Montoya | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel Prize, Philosophy, Politics, Globalization, Barack Obama, Obama Nobel, World Peace, Iraq, Afghanistan, World News
MJR Montoya

During the Nobel ceremonies, President Obama should graciously re-gift the prize, and he should instead recast it as recognition of those who have suffered through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Rennie Davis 3.0

Alexia Parks | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: John Lennon, Celebrity, Consciousness, Rennie Davis, Copernicus, Human Evolution, World Peace, Perception, Longmont, Denver News
Alexia Parks

These days Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago 7, tells listeners from his home base in Longmont that world is "not solid, objective or real, but a psychological construct" whose origin lies within each one of us.

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Ayatollah Khamenei: Saving Face is Never Worth Sacrificing Citizens

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran Election, Foreign Affairs, Iran Protests, Violence, World Peace, Iran, Iran Elections, Foreign Policy, Protesters, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

The Iranians are determined and tenacious and, like those before them, will bear the unwelcome and often deadly burden of change. But such change must occur without US involvement.

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AFS: World Peace Begins in High School

Jim Luce | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: E.E. Cummings, Brian Atwood, French Fellowships, Ernest Hemingway, A. Piatt Andrew, Youth for Understanding, United Nations, Jaroslava Moserova, World Peace, Cady Coleman, Harvard, AFS Intercultural Programs, Facebook, American Hospital in Paris, Global Citizens, Rotary Exchange, CéSar Gaviria, W. Somerset Maugham, Hans Schlegel, Afs, Council on Foreign, Fulbright Scholars, American Field Service, Eduardo RodríGuez Veltzé, World War I, Orphans International Worldwide, American Red Cross, Tadatoshi Akiba, R. Nick Burns, Thought Leaders, Grayson Kirk, World News
Jim Luce

I would not be who I am today -- and the organization I founded, Orphans International Worldwide -- would not exist, if it were not for my life-impacting experiences with AFS.

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News
Jim Luce

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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The Obama Dividend: Is World Peace Finally Possible?

Randall Amster | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Middle East, Terrorism, Environment, World Peace, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacemakers, Peace, Barack Obama, Peacemaking, Potsdam Institute, New York State, Politics News
Randall Amster

The path to peace, while bolstered by Obama's presence, is perhaps rockier now than ever before. Peace has moved from becoming a remote ideal to a true necessity.

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Dr. King's True Legacy: A Lesson for Progressives in the Age of Obama

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Equality, Al Sharpton, Americans, America, Racial Equality, Martin Luther King Jr., World Peace, Legacy, Peace, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Freedom of Speech, Racial Politics, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King, Lyndon B. Johnson, Vietnam War, Freedom, Abraham Lincoln, Racism, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Justice, African-Americans, Politics News
Kimberle Crenshaw

Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.

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I Vote for Peace

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living

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Dr. Susan Corso

There is no common definition of peace. Instead, it means different things at different times to different people. True peace is a dynamic way of being in the world wherein all are blessed.

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Obama is an Expat's Dream Come True: The Son of a Global Citizen

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Mother, Microcredit, Hillary, Poverty Alleviation, World Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Texas, Bush Era, Obama, American, Global Citizen, Social Business, Un, Future Generations, Muhammad Yunus, Politics News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Obama's mother gave a precious gift to her son, the life of both an Americanand that of human being who feels at home in many different cultures, allowing to see the similarities between us all.

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How Business Can Save The World

Boston Globe | Matthew Battles | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Responsibility, Organizational Behavior, Milton Friedman, World Peace, Philanthropy, Business News

When Milton Friedman famously stated that "the social responsibility of business is to increase profits," he furnished ammunition to both free market ...

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