The award was established following the last will of Alfred Nobel Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite. The first award ceremony dates back to 1901, when were delivered the price for peace, literature, chemistry, medicine and physics. Since 1969 there is also the prize for Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( even if he did not wanted it ). The award ceremony is on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the founder. Nobel invented this price because of the discomfort caused to hiself by his invention, dynamite, which had powerful implications of war. Its purpose was and still is to fund with private funds people who are more distinct in the subjects mentioned above.
In 1998 the Nobel Peace Prize was given to John Hume and David Trimble, two Irish politicians who are strongly committed to peace between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland
Hume lived in a little town in Northen Ireland, he was educated by a catholic family and he wanted to become a priest. But after the master he stops theological studies and he decided to become a teacher, he became a politician only in 1960.
Trimble on the contrary grew in a protestant family in a town near Belfast, he studied in this towns for a lot of years. When he became Laws professor at the Queen's University of Belfalast he assisted in a shootout where one of his colleagues died, murdered by members of IRA, so he decided to commit to peace in Ireland.
These two men with their choices have risked their lives to defend the right ideals of justice and peace, and for their commitment they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
I appreciate people who struggle at the cost of their lives to achieve their ideals!
ReplyDeleteI think these people are very strong-minded.
ReplyDeleteGood for them.