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| 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus © Nobel Foundation |
Links:
Blog coverage on Yunus at audeamus.com
A Call to Journalists: Stop Writing About Microfinance at NextBillion.net
The Economist on the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize Links Poverty Reduction to Peace (AFP)
On the unorthodox pick, Asle Sveen, a historian remarked to the AFP:
On the unorthodox pick, Asle Sveen, a historian remarked to the AFP:
“There were enough good nominations in the area of conflict resolution in the strictest sense but the Nobel Committee is increasingly taking the fight to the fundamental reasons for which war is waged. It is not enough to make peace, this peace must be a just peace and the causes of war, such as hunger and poverty, must be treated at their roots.”