Former President Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of work towards peace. He did not win the prize "along with" anyone else though Carter did come close after getting Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign an agreement which has kept the peace between Egypt and Israel for three decades -hardly a "fail". Yassir Arafat had nothing to do with the Camp David Peace Accords.
Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace PrizeFriday, October 11, 2002 Posted: 5:48 PM EDT (2148 GMT)
OSLO, Norway (CNN) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for what presenters cited as decades of work seeking peaceful solutions and promoting social and economic justice.
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Carter has been repeatedly nominated for the prize, worth $1 million, and came close to winning in 1978 when he brought Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat together to sign the Camp David Peace Accords, but his presidency faltered under the weight of the Iran hostage crisis.
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The announcement of the award came only hours after the U.S. House and Senate gave President George W. Bush authorization to use military force against Iraq in order to enforce U.N. Security Council resolutions requiring that Baghdad give up weapons of mass destruction. In an interview with CNN, Carter declined to address the situation with Iraq, saying instead he would rather focus on the peace prize.
Asked if the selection of the former president was a criticism of Bush, Gunnar Berge, head of the Nobel committee, said: "With the position Carter has taken on this, it can and must also be seen as criticism of the line the current U.S. administration has taken on Iraq."
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/11/carter.nobel/index.html Al Gore won his Nobel Peace Prize in conjunction with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He did not win for "claims" he won for advocating doing something about the threat to the world posed by climate change.
Gore, U.N. climate panel win Nobel Peace Prize
Warming is ‘greatest challenge’ ever, he says, earning praise and criticismmsnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 7:28 p.m. ET, Fri., Oct . 12, 2007
OSLO, Norway - Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday, and the former vice president used the attention to warn that global warming is "the greatest challenge we've ever faced."
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"His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change," the Nobel citation said. "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted."
It cited Gore's awareness at an early stage "of the climatic challenges the world is facing."
Panel's two decadesThe Nobel Peace Prize committee also cited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for two decades of scientific reports that have "created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming."
The IPCC groups 2,500 researchers from more than 130 nations and issued reports this year blaming human activities for climate changes ranging from more heat waves to floods. It was set up in 1988 by the United Nations to help guide governments.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21262661/ Many people can nominate contenders for consideration and the Norwegian Nobel Committee decides who will get it.
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