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Speech for Berlin on breaking down cultural walls

It is a pleasure for me to represent the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Albert Schweitzer.  Dr. Schweitzer remains familiar to many of you here in Germany and throughout Europe as he was a very famous theologian, philosopher, and musician at the turn of the 20th century.   He was famed for his lectures and [...]

Talk on nuclear weapons for Berlin

It is my pleasure and honor to represent the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer.  Many people in Europe and especially in France and Germany will know that he comes from what is now the French province of Alsace.  He was known as a prominent theologian, philosopher, and an expert on the organ [...]

Global Security Institute

A Moment to Seize

1. We have found ways of utilizing the gifts of science, technology and complex social
organization to transform the natural world. From the sub-atomic realms and the basic
building blocks of life all the way to the vast firmaments above us we have invented ways and
means to harm and destroy ourselves. We also have [...]

Speech of Reiner Braun, Member IPB

Speech of Reiner Braun, Member of the Steering Committee of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) at the meeting of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Berlin November 10th/11th 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Chairman,
The most famous peace manifesto in modern times, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955, declares that “either we abolish nuclear weapons or they will destroy [...]

Message to tenth Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates

United Nations Nations Unies, The Secretary General
MESSAGE TO TENTH SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES
Berlin, 9 November 2009
Twenty years ago today a wall fell and the world watched in awe and in hope. The Berlin Wall had stood for decades as a graphic physical reminder of how mistrust and hatred can dominate relations between [...]

DECLARATION OF THE 9TH WORLD SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES

PARIS 11-13 DECEMBER 2008: We, the Nobel Peace Laureates and Laureate organizations, who have gathered together in Paris from 11 to 13 December, 2008, to consider the state of human rights and the prospects for a world without violence, have adopted the following Declaration.

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The Permanent Secretariat of Nobel Peace Laureates Summits derives from a new and more broadly based collaboration between the International Gorbachev Foundation and the City of Rome for realizing the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates. The Permanent Secretariat, based in Rome, is a non-profit association without political aims. As well as organizing the tasks of the Summit, the Secretariat monitors the activities of Nobel Peace Laureates, while promoting the adoption of the "Charter for a world without violence" and supporting the work of the Nobel.