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Who will receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize?

Who will receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize?

Asked by: knewthenews in Science » Other
Settled on 10/07/2011 09:38 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:ltiple female individuals Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee, and Yemen's Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize, the jury said.

The three prizewinners share the 2011 award "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work," Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland said in his announcement.

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Predictions
a male individual
21.4% →
a female individual
58.9% →
multiple male individuals
1.0% →
multiple female individuals
1.0% →
multiple male and female individuals
1.9% →
other (eg: organization, institute)
other (eg: organization, institute)
15.8% →

Background

The Nobel Peace Prize Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frédéric Passy, a leading international pacifist of the time. In addition to humanitarian efforts and peace movements, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded for work in a wide range of fields including advocacy of human rights, mediation of international conflicts, and arms control.in Medicine has subsequently highlighted a number of important discoveries including penicillin, genetic engineering and blood-typing.

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