2016 Nobel Peace Prize – Global Forum http://peace.augsburg.edu Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:51:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.13 http://peace.augsburg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-Augsburg_A_2-color-32x32.png 2016 Nobel Peace Prize – Global Forum http://peace.augsburg.edu 32 32 Peace in Colombia: From the Impossible to the Possible http://peace.augsburg.edu/peace-colombia-impossible-possible/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:39:20 +0000 http://peace.augsburg.edu/?p=6111 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Days in Oslo, Norway It’s been a busy weekend in Oslo to say the least! Our Program Director, Joe Underhill has experienced it all. Please see ...

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It’s been a busy weekend in Oslo to say the least! Our Program Director, Joe Underhill has experienced it all. Please see below links to view the different events.

President Santos said in his acceptance speech:
“It is much more difficult to achieve peace than to wage war. The Colombian peace agreement is a ray of hope in a world troubled by so many conflicts and so much intolerance. It proves that what, at first, seems impossible, through perseverance may become possible even in Syria or Yemen or South Sudan.”

We look forward to hosting Colombia’s President and now Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in the near future!

Juan Manuel Santos’ Nobel Lecture

Presentation Speech by Kaci Kullman Five (presented by Berit Reiss-Andersen)

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in full

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]]> Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos wins the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize http://peace.augsburg.edu/colombian-president-juan-manuel-santos-wins-2016-nobel-peace-prize/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:05:39 +0000 http://peace.augsburg.edu/?p=6096 The winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was, on October 7, 2016, awarded Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, for his dedicated work to end 52-years of national ...

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]]> The winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was, on October 7, 2016, awarded Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, for his dedicated work to end 52-years of national conflict. President Santos dedicated this prize to his fellow Colombians especially the many victims that have been directly affected by the conflict.

“I invite everyone to join our strength, our minds and our hearts in this great national endeavor so that we can win the most important prize of all: peace in Colombia,” he said during his first public appearance after being awarded the this prestigious prize.

See President Santos’ reaction after the news: Aljazeera 

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