Marjane Satrapi - Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2023 The Nobel Peace Prize 2024-01-24 | Marjane Satrapi was born in Rasht, Iran. She now lives in Paris, where she creates her films and paintings. She is the author of Persepolis, and she co-wrote and co-directed the animated feature film version of Persepolis, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2007. In September 2023, she released a graphic novel Woman, life, freedom, together with 20 artists, to support the wave of protests that has shaken Iran since the death of Mahsa Jina Amini last year.
Maria Corina Machado - I will be in Oslo, I am on my way The Nobel Peace Prize 2025-12-10 | 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado confirms to the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, that she will be in Oslo on 10 December 2025 and that she is on her way.
Masud Gharahkhani - Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2023 The Nobel Peace Prize 2024-01-24 | Masud Gharahkhani is a politician for the Labour Party. He has been a member of the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, since 2017 and was elected President of the Storting in November 2021. Gharahkhani was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1982 and emigrated to Norway with his family in 1987. He has been clear and vocal in his support for the demonstrations and the fight for democracy, freedom, and human dignity in Iran.
Shirin Ebadi - Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2023 The Nobel Peace Prize 2024-01-24 | Dr. Shirin Ebadi is an author, lawyer, and was the first female judge in Iran, living in exile in London since 2009. In 2003, she received the Nobel Peace Prize. Ebadi was a judge in Iran until 1979, the year of the Islamic Revolution, after which she was no longer allowed to work. In 1994, she co-founded the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child. In 2002, she co-founded the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC) with other lawyers to assist those working towards promoting democracy. After her Nobel Prize in 2003, she co-founded the Nobel Women’s Initiative in 2006, and used some of her prize money to support DHRC. In 2008, the Iranian government closed down DHRC by raiding her office.
Agnès Callamard - Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2023 The Nobel Peace Prize 2024-01-24 | Dr. Agnès Callamard has been a prominent figure in the human rights world for many years. In 2021, she became Secretary General of Amnesty International, leading its human rights work and setting the strategic direction for the organization. In 2016, she was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. She was also the Director of Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University in New York and Executive Director of Article 19, an international human rights organization working to protect freedom of expression. She is the official representative of Amnesty International, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
Nazanin Boniadi - Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2023 The Nobel Peace Prize 2024-01-24 | Actor and activist Nazanin Boniadi is a longtime human and women’s rights advocate with a focus on Iran. In 2020, she was appointed an Amnesty International UK Ambassador and was selected for membership in the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). From 2009-2015, Boniadi served as a spokesperson for Amnesty International USA (AIUSA). Her work has taken her to Capitol Hill, the White House, the British, Canadian and Australian Parliaments, the Bundestag, and the United Nations. Laurels include the 2020 Freedom House Raising Awareness Award, and 2022 Ellis Island Medal of Honor as well as this year’s recipient of the 2023 Sydney Peace Prize. Boniadi is an acclaimed actor of film and television, most recently starring in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series.
The Dangers of Nuclear Weapons The Nobel Peace Prize 2020-09-28 | Nuclear weapons remain the only military threat with the capacity to end human civilization. Unlike during the Cold War, nuclear weapons are no longer the central topic of political discussions, leading new generations to be less aware of the threat they carry. In collaboration with documentary filmmaker Neil Halloran, Nobel Peace Prize - Research and Information has produced a short film based on data from leading researchers that illustrates the very real danger nuclear weapons still pose to humanity and life on Earth.
Reconciling Identity and Climate Cooperation - Francis Fukuyama The Nobel Peace Prize 2020-02-19 | Francis Fukuyama, professor at Stanford University, speaking at The Norwegian Nobel Institute on 12 February 2020. Part of "The Climate Challenge and the Spirit of Capitalism", hosted by The Norwegian Nobel Institute in collaboration with Oslo Energy Forum.Francis Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book "The End of History and the Last Man," has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.
Can Capitalism Sustain a Green Revolution? - Martin Wolf The Nobel Peace Prize 2020-02-19 | Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, speaking at The Norwegian Nobel Institute on 12 February 2020. Part of "The Climate Challenge and the Spirit of Capitalism", hosted by The Norwegian Nobel Institute in collaboration with Oslo Energy Forum.Martin Wolf is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential economics journalists. Wolf was awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000 "for services to financial journalism."
Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2019 The Nobel Peace Prize 2020-01-15 | The Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2019 addressed the conflict in Yemen with Tawakkol Karman as keynote speaker on 11 December. PROGRAMMEYemen's Fight for SurvivalKEYNOTE SPEAKER:Tawakkol KarmanYemini journalist, activist, and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize LaureatePANEL:Peter SalisburySenior Advisor of the International Crisis Group on YemenDr. Lina KhatibHead of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham HouseFarea al-MuslimiChairman of the Sana’a Center for Strategic StudiesMODERATOR:Mah-Rukh Ali Journalist and author
Camp David at forty: Lessons and Prospects The Nobel Peace Prize 2019-06-14 | On the 28th of May 2019, a high-level Nobel Institute seminar considered the 40th anniversary of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, commonly referred to as the 'Camp David Accords'.The accords were the first major diplomatic breakthrough of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but has a mixed legacy.The event ensured a lasting peace between Egypt and Israel, effectively blocking the possibility of another inter-state war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. However, it also indefinitely postponed a solution to the Palestinian question by enhancing Israel's control over the occupied territories.Marking the 40 year anniversary of the accords, some of the world's leading experts were been invited to speak. William Quandt, Seth Anziska, Jeremy Pressman, Jørgen Jensehaugen, Louise Fischer, Craig Daigle and others contributed to the programme.A high-level panel including Jan Egeland and Jan Petersen begun the session, discussing the prospects for a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
U.S. Climate and Energy Policy in the Trump Administration with Q&A - Jody Freeman The Nobel Peace Prize 2019-02-28 | Jody Freeman speaking about US climate policy at the Norwegian Nobel InstituteJody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. She served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10. Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and is an independent director of ConocoPhillips, where she serves on the executive and director’s affairs committees, and chairs the public policy committee.
The Critical Decade: Ideas that will shape the energy transition at The Norwegian Nobel Institute The Nobel Peace Prize 2019-02-18 | A 2018 special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that only twelve years remain before it will be impossible to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. While acceptance of climate change is growing, uncertainty about the feasibility of successful energy transition persists. As if the technical and economic challenges were not great enough, recent resistance against even minor attempts to limit emissions illustrates the enormity of the task.As a result, disbelief is being replaced by apathy, and the world is in urgent need of radical new ideas.On February 13th 2019, four of the world's most innovative thinkers gathered at The Norwegian Nobel Institute to discuss the technical and political solutions necessary for a successful energy transition.
Why we Need a Green New Deal - Rutger Bregman speaking at the Norwegian Nobel Institute The Nobel Peace Prize 2019-02-18 | Following his viral success at Davos, Rutger Bregman came to speak at the Norwegian Nobel Institute on February 13th 2019.Rutger Bregman is a historian and author. His 'History of Progress' was awarded the Belgian Liberales prize for best nonfiction book of 2013. The Dutch edition of 'Utopia for Realists' became a national bestseller and sparked a basic income movement that soon made international headlines. The book has been translated in 31 languages. Bregman has twice been nominated for the prestigious European Press Prize for his journalism work at The Correspondent. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian and on the BBC.
U.S. Climate and Energy Policy in the Trump Administration - Jody Freeman The Nobel Peace Prize 2019-02-15 | Jody Freeman speaking about US climate policy at the Norwegian Nobel InstituteJody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. She served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10. Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and is an independent director of ConocoPhillips, where she serves on the executive and director’s affairs committees, and chairs the public policy committee.
How to Realize Solar Energys Vast Potential – Before It Is Too Late with Varun Sivaram The Nobel Peace Prize 2019-02-15 | Varun Sivaram speaking at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.Dr. Varun Sivaram is a physicist, Chief Technology Officer of ReNew Power Limited—India’s largest renewable energy firm—and a senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center for Global Energy Policy. His previous roles include professor at Georgetown University, fellow and director of the energy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, consultant at McKinsey & Co., and senior energy advisor to the Los Angeles Mayor and New York Governor’s Office.” He is the author of Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet (MIT Press, 2018).
Why Quantum Computing will Revolutionize Energy Production (and everything else) - Ilyas Khan The Nobel Peace Prize 2019-02-15 | Ilyas Khan, founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing, speaking at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 13th February 2019.Ilyas Khan is the CEO and co-Founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing. CQC is the world's leading independent quantum algorithm and software developer and has a strong focus on cryptography and AI. Prior to establishing CQC, Ilyas was the founding partner in the University of Cambridge Business School's accelerator programme where he is also the Leader in Residence. Ilyas is also the Chairman of The Stephen Hawking Foundation. He is an extensive writer, commentator and speaker on topics relating to quantum computing and free will, and has a long-standing interest in the foundations of mathematics and category theory.
Al Gore keynote at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2018 - How to solve the Climate Crisis? The Nobel Peace Prize 2019-02-05 | In 2018, Al Gore was keynote speaker at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. Here is some of what he had to say.
The Future of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty - Nobel Symposium 2018 The Nobel Peace Prize 2018-08-14 | The 2018 Nobel Symposium, Bergen, Norway.Bozorgmehr Ziaran, acting Chief of External Relations for the CTBTO and Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary General of Pugwash International, discuss the comprehensive test ban treaty and how it could represent the next practical step toward nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear Disarmament: Feasible? Desirable? Attainable? - Nobel Symposium 2018 The Nobel Peace Prize 2018-08-14 | In June 2018 - the world's leading experts on nuclear disarmament gathered in Norway to discuss the prospects of the 'Global Zero' vision.
Nobel Peace Price Forum 2017 The Nobel Peace Prize 2018-01-15 | Across Dividing LinesIndigenous peoples' rights within the context of social justice and environmental protection. Rigoberta Menchú Tum and addressed indigenous rights within the context of social justice and environmental protection.
High Level Panel On Nuclear Security - The Norwegian Nobel Institute The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-06-21 | In proud cooperation with the Carnegie Corporation of New York
John Cerone The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-06-13 | Legal & Political Obstacles to Accountability for the Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
Luke Nichter The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-06-12 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., A Coup, and Nuclear Weapons in the Vietnam War.
Jacek Kugler The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-06-12 | The Problem of Nuclear Parity: Conditional Disarmament Dynamics in the Present World
Denise Garcia The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-06-12 | The evolving international legal architecture to contain nuclear weapons
David Churchman The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-06-12 | The Search for an Elusive Peace in Our Multipolar World.
Calin Trenkov-Wermuth The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-06-12 | Deploying the Devil’s Advocate: The Future Use of Red Teams to Enhance the Global Nuclear Security Architecture.
Andrew Futter The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-06-12 | Emerging Technologies and the Future of Global Nuclear Order
Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo Promotional Video. The Nobel Peace Prize 2017-03-12 | The first Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo was held on Sunday 11 December 2016. The topic of this year’s Forum was "The United States and world peace after the Presidential Election". Keynote speakers are former U.S. top officials and foreign policy experts Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Dr. Henry Kissinger. After their speeches they took part in a 45-minute discussion moderated by Olav Njølstad, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The Forum is intended to become a permanent feature of the annual Nobel Peace Prize celebrations in Oslo, and will serve as an arena for interdisciplinary discussion and reflection on pivotal and timely issues of importance to international peace and security. Depending on the issues the Forum will bring together unique constellations of former Nobel Laureates, world-leading political experts, policy makers, key opinion leaders, civil society and business community representatives, journalists, students, and the general public.The Forum is hosted by the Norwegian Nobel Institute in close collaboration with the University of Oslo. Almost 500 participants gathered for an enlightened two-hour session in the beautiful Aula at the University of Oslo. The event sponsors are InCircl and GoodXChange Corp.
James Cooper 04 05 2016 The Nobel Peace Prize 2016-05-24 | http://www.nppri.org/index.phpJames Cooper is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the U.K. Higher Education Academy. He completed his PhD at Aberystwyth University in 2010 and then became Lecturer in Modern History at the same institution. In August 2012 Dr Cooper was appointed Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University before spending the 2012-13 academic year as the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, USA. Dr Cooper is primarily interested in contemporary American history within a global context. His first monograph problematized the relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, with a specific reference to domestic policy in a transnational context. His current project focuses on the response of U.S. presidents to the Northern Ireland conflict during the ‘Troubles’. It will contribute to the relatively marginalised historiography of the American dimension of the Anglo-Irish process.
1. Steven L. B. Jensen: The Making of International Human Rights, 1945-1993 The Nobel Peace Prize 2016-05-02 | http://www.nppri.org/index.phpNobel Spring Lectures 2016The causes of peace Thursday, 21 April. John T. McNay, Professor at the University of Cincinnati – Blue Ash: “I Would Rather Have Peace than Be President”: American Presidents Choosing Peace from Truman to Obama Thursday, 28 April. Steven L. B. Jensen, Senior Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights: The Making of International Human Rights, 1945-1993 Wednesday, 04 May. James Cooper, Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University: The Politics of Peace making: U.S. Presidents and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1964 – 1998 Thursday, 12 May. Fabian Klose, Senior Researcher, Leibniz Institute in Mainz: Humanitarian Interventionist Policies and the Establishing of a Lasting International Peace Order Thursday, 19 May. Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Associate Professor at Science Tufts University: The United States, Alliance Coercion, and Paths to Regional Peace? Thursday, 26 May. Bear F. Braumoeller, Associate Professor at Ohio State University: The Spread of Peace and the Spread of War: Explaining an Apparent Paradox Thursday, 02 June. Mai’a Davis Cross, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University: The Politics of Crisis in Europe and the Prospects for Regional Peace Thursday, 09 June. Ayşe Zarakol, University Lecturer at University of Cambridge: How the Moslem World Learned to Live with the West: Lessons for Today Tuesday, 14 June. Ned Lebow, Professor at King’s University: The Consequences of America's Quest for Hegemony The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Henrik Ibsens gate 51All seminars take place: 18:00 – 19:30 All welcome.
2 Steven L. B. Jensen: The Making of International Human Rights, 45-93 The Nobel Peace Prize 2016-05-02 | http://www.nppri.org/index.phpNobel Spring Lectures 2016The causes of peace Thursday, 21 April. John T. McNay, Professor at the University of Cincinnati – Blue Ash: “I Would Rather Have Peace than Be President”: American Presidents Choosing Peace from Truman to Obama Thursday, 28 April. Steven L. B. Jensen, Senior Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights: The Making of International Human Rights, 1945-1993 Wednesday, 04 May. James Cooper, Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University: The Politics of Peace making: U.S. Presidents and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1964 – 1998 Thursday, 12 May. Fabian Klose, Senior Researcher, Leibniz Institute in Mainz: Humanitarian Interventionist Policies and the Establishing of a Lasting International Peace Order Thursday, 19 May. Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Associate Professor at Science Tufts University: The United States, Alliance Coercion, and Paths to Regional Peace? Thursday, 26 May. Bear F. Braumoeller, Associate Professor at Ohio State University: The Spread of Peace and the Spread of War: Explaining an Apparent Paradox Thursday, 02 June. Mai’a Davis Cross, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University: The Politics of Crisis in Europe and the Prospects for Regional Peace Thursday, 09 June. Ayşe Zarakol, University Lecturer at University of Cambridge: How the Moslem World Learned to Live with the West: Lessons for Today Tuesday, 14 June. Ned Lebow, Professor at King’s University: The Consequences of America's Quest for Hegemony The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Henrik Ibsens gate 51All seminars take place: 18:00 – 19:30 All welcome.
John T McNay, Professor at the University of Cincinnati – Blue Ash The Nobel Peace Prize 2016-04-27 | ...
Adrian Pop, Professor of International Relations, University of Bucharest: The Nobel Peace Prize 2015-11-08 | Thursday, 25. June. Adrian Pop, Professor of International Relations, University of Bucharest: EU, Russia and the Competition over the Shared Neighbourhood.
Anne Marie Le Gloannec, Senior Research Fellow, Sciences Po Paris The Nobel Peace Prize 2015-11-08 | Thursday, 18. June. Anne Marie Le Gloannec, Senior Research Fellow, Sciences Po Paris: Liberalism at bay? Economic interdependence in wider Europe.
David Ekbladh: The Birth of an American Globalism in the 1930s The Nobel Peace Prize 2015-06-16 | David Ekbladh, Assistant Professor Tufts University: Look at the World: The Birth of an American Globalism in the 1930s
William Quandt: Liberal Interventionism: Cautionary lessons from the Middle East The Nobel Peace Prize 2015-06-16 | Thursday, 11 June. William B. Quandt, Professor of Political Science, University of Virginia, Liberal Interventionism: Cautionary lessons from the Middle East
Michael Doyle: The Question of Intervention: John S. Mill and the Responsibility to Protect The Nobel Peace Prize 2015-06-16 | Friday. 12. June. Michael C. Doyle, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University: The Question of Intervention: John S. Mill and the Responsibility to Protect
Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Harvard University: Where do human rights come from? The Nobel Peace Prize 2015-06-02 | Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Harvard University: Where do human rights come from?Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2001. He returned to HLS after thirteen years in the Columbia University history department, where he was most recently James Bryce Professor of European Legal History. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard University Press, 2010), and edited or coedited several others. His areas of interest in legal scholarship include international law, human rights, the law of war, and legal thought, in both historical and current perspective. He is editor of the interdisciplinary journal Humanity and holds editorial positions at several other publications.
