Peace in another time

When the first Nobel peace prize was awarded in 1901, peace was simply the opposite of war. Times have changed. The 2007 award to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – for their fight against manmade global warming – shows an especially wide interpretation of the concept of peace. The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s definition has been broadening for decades. Charitable individuals from Albert Schweitzer to Mother Teresa have been laureates. More recently, poverty has b...