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The Secretariat sent to G20 an appeal signed by the Co-President of the Summit Walter Veltroni
The Secretariat of the Nobel Peace Laureates’ Summits has today sent to all the Heads of State involved in the Copenhagen Summit a letter/appeal to urge them – in their roles as the leaders of the nations and governments of our planet – to make as soon as possible a new commitment towards taking on [...]
Everyone Should Have the Right to Credit
Microcredit loans have revolutionized the world of finance in developing nations. Now Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate behind the concept, wants to see similar programs in the industrialized world. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he explains why Germany’s poor should be given loans.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Yunus, you provide microcredit to people in [...]
Speech on poverty for Berlin
In 1945, with the smoke still clearing after the worst war in human history, the founders of the United Nations wrote Article 26 in the UN Charter which says and I quote “In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human [...]
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 [...]
State President receives US ex-president Carter
State President Nguyen Minh Triet on November 18 received former US President Jimmy Carter and his wife who were in Vietnam to launch a campaign in which volunteers build houses for the poor. President Triet applauded the assistance from Carter, his wife Rosalynn and the volunteers of Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) for the project [...]
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 [...]
Panel about nuclear weapons and armament
Good Morning.
The one thing that comes to my mind when I think about working on
nuclear disarmament with other young people today is “what a time to be
doing this!”
And indeed, it is a great time for young people to become active on
nuclear disarmament, because for the first time since too many years,
their enthusiasm for a world [...]
Speech of Wim Wenders
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 [...]
Albert Schweitzer Institute
Gorbachev Foundation
