This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a Japanese organisation ... Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai (2014); Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk (1993) and Mother Teresa (1979), but ...

Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to abolish racial segregation in South Africa. Invictus is based on a real-life incident from Mandela’s life—the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Similarly, Nelson Mandela, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 after spending 27 years in prison, was a true leader who brought democracy to his country. Senegal's first President ...

Mandela is famous for his personal struggle ... Despite many years in jail, he emerged to become He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Resistance to apartheid grew, mainly against the new Pass ...

It is not known why Nobel chose Norway, which at the time was in a union with Sweden, to hand out the peace prize. In 1968 ..

Prior award recipients include Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jr. Reviewers describe their visits to the Nobel Peace Prize as hit or miss. Although some say ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was head of South Africa ... which it was combated upon the emergence of Nelson Mandela, and I was particularly anxious to hear what ...

In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Peace prize - the Nobel Committee described ... After about 1990/91 I thought well Nelson Mandela took 27 years, I can do the same if necessary.." ...

Professor Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, which he founded, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 “for their efforts to create economic and ... Professor Yunus is one of only seven in ...

Hajar Yazdiha, Assistant Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California; now author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How ...