CONTENTS

About the Author......................................................................................................................................11

Preface......................................................................................................................................................23

Chapter 1: Humanity at the Crossroads...................................................................................................31
Why “we the people” must hear the wake-up call to work for peace

Chapter 2: Story of the Nobel Prize.........................................................................................................55
How the Nobel Peace Prize began and winners are chosen

Chapter 3: Lives of the Nobel Peace Laureates........................................................................................65
An honor roll of 110 inspiring champions of peace

Chapter 4: The Laureates’ Legacy of Peacemaking................................................................................152
Dedicated leaders working for peace, with enduring results

Chapter 5: Obstacles to Peace................................................................................................................162
Exploding population, nuclear threats, terrorism, dire poverty, environmental abuses

Chapter 6: Building an Enduring World Peace........................................................................................173
All humanity working for justice, collective security, and economic and human rights

Chapter 7: Peacemaking by State Governments.....................................................................................189
No peace without security, and no security without peace

Chapter 8: United Nations—World Peacemaker....................................................................................204
Uniting all nations in the hands-on work for peace

Chapter 9: Volunteer Partners in Peacemaking.......................................................................................217
The grass roots find and sustain world peacemakers

Chapter 10: World Peace and Democracy..............................................................................................228
No peace without democracy, and no democracy without peace

Chapter 11: World Peace, Social Free Enterprise, and the Market Economy........................................243
Sharing social free enterprise benefits worldwide is necessary to build peace

Chapter 12: New Approach to Peacemaking.........................................................................................258
Governments have failed to find the road to peace— something new must be tried

Chapter 13: The Greenpeace Story........................................................................................................269
From church basement to protectors of Mother Earth! Impossible?

Chapter14: Grass Roots Peacemakers Groups......................................................................................287
Grass roots reinforcements needed to energize public opinion and governments

Chapter 15: What the U.S. and Other Governments Can Do Now.......................................................301
Ensure multilateral UN support to stop the carnage of war

Chapter 16: “I Want to Help, What Can I Do Now?”...........................................................................309
Join a working group of Peacemakers to build a new world of peace

Appendices: A to M, including Tables in Appendices C and F.............................................................319

Notes .....................................................................................................................................................393

Bibliography...........................................................................................................................................399

Index.......................................................................................................................................................403

APPENDICES

A Alfred Nobel’s Will—An Excerpt

B Nobel Peace Prize Winners—from first Peace Prize awarded in 1901, to 2002.

C Tables Table 1—Prize Winners by Category Table 2—Prize Winners by Country Table 3—Awards to Institutions and Associations Table 4—Women Peace Laureates

D D-1 Speech by Gunnar Berge, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2001 D-2 Lecture by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2001

E Lecture by Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of 1952, at the Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, November 4, 1954

F UN World Urbanization Prospects: The 1999 Revision

G The Responsibility to Protect Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty—December 2001

H UN Peacekeeping Missions—Completed/Or Still Active

I Main Subjects of UN Activity listed in the Index of the Britannica Year Book of 2002

J Main Treaties on Nuclear and Strategic Ballistic Missiles Disarmament

K UN Human Rights Instruments (Including Treaties and Other Documentation Related to Human Rights)

L Statement by 100 Nobel Laureates on the 100 th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize, Warning That The World’s Security Hangs on Environmental and Social Reform

M Statement by John Polanyi, Canadian University Professor, Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1986—“Stupidity is the Enemy; Idealism is Our Only Hope.”

"We appeal, as human beings, to human beings. Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you do so, the way lies open for a new paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death . . . .”
Bertrand Russell
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 1954