The Nobel Peace Prize

Introduction

I am glad you are here and ready for a new adventure!

Are you someone who wants to make a positive difference in this world? Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a great leader? Do you want to work toward creating true peace on Earth?

Who is Alfred Nobel?

What is the Nobel Peace Prize?

Who founded the Nobel Peace Prize?

What do you want to be remebered for in the next 100 years?

http://www.nobelprize.org

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. Robert Fulgrum

Task

Your task as a member will be to select which Nobel Peace Prize winner's name will grace our library. You have ten Nobel Prize winners to chose from. You and your teammate(s) will research the Nobel Prize winners by doing the following:

Research articles on the prize winners
Chose at least three interesting facts about the prize winners
Discuss your ideas with your teammate(s)
Chose one prize winner who you and your team believe is most deserving of having his or her name on the library.
In a short paragraph explain why he or she was chosen.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In his acceptance speech he said:
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."

Process

AND NOW TO THE TEN PROMINENT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS!

Use the following links to conduct research on your assigned person. Each link provides valuable information about your person. It is up to you to decide what information you and your partner are going to use to complete the assignment.

President Barrack Obama

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/world/10nobel.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867664.ece

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.peace.prize/index.html

http://www.biography.com/articles/Barack-Obama-12782369

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Vice President Al Gore

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21262661/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/13nobel.html

http://www.algore.com/

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/news/postseries/goreprofiles/

Mother Teresa

http://www.motherteresa.org/

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20031019_madre-teresa_en.html

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Mother-Teresa.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/mother-teresa

http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/mother-teresa/index.html

Kofi Annan

http://www.un.org/sg/annan.shtml

http://kofiannanfoundation.org/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/un/

http://www.kaiptc.org/home/

http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/2001b.html

Mikhail Gorbachev

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gor0bio-1

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1990-1999/Story/0,,112409,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/16/world/evolution-europe-gorbachev-gets-nobel-peace-prize-for-foreign-police.html

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=16528

http://monfort.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=monfort_lecture

Aung San Suu Kyi

http://www.dassk.org/

http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/burma/about-burma/about-burma/a-biography-of-aung-san-suu-kyi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1950505.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/aung-san-suu-kyi

http://www.actionburma.com/

Henry Kissinger

http://www.henryakissinger.com/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/peopleevents/pande02.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDkissinger.htm

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/k/henry_a_kissinger/index.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/23/AR2010062302193.html

Theodore Roosevelt

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/theodoreroosevelt

http://library.thinkquest.org/3078/essay/Roosevelt.html

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/roosevelt.cfm

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/biography.html

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/infodocs/people/pst_mlk.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-acceptance.html

President Jimmy Carter

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/

http://www.nps.gov/jica/index.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=727

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/11/carter.nobel/index.html