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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Guess what this list is!

2011 Leymah Gbowee,
Liberian Peace activist, leading a women's peace movement.
It helped to bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003




2011 Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman
Yemeni journalist, human-rights activist and senior member of the Al-Islah political party. 
Leading the group "Women Journalists Without Chains." co-built in 2005




2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
24th and current President of Liberia.




2010 Liu Xiaobo
Chinese literary critic. and writer, professor, human-rights activist.




2009 Barack Obama
Current President of USA



2008 Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari
10th President of Finland




2007 Al Gore
Former vice president, Environmental activist




 2006 Muhammad Yunus
 Bangladesh banker, the founder of Grameen Bank. Professor.


2005 Mohamed ElBaradei,
General secretary of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)




2004 Wangari Muta Maathai
Kenyan environmental activist.




2003 Shirin Ebadi
Founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.




2002 Jimmy Carter.
39th President of USA




2001 UN & Kofi Annan, the general secretary of UN. (corecipient)




2000 Dae Jung Kim
Former President of South Korea




1999 Medicin Sans Frontiers (MSF)



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As you could have guessed, it's the list of recipient of Nobel Peace Prize for 10 years.
Among them behaved unbefitting of a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.
But I can imagine the endeavor and accomplishment for peace on their subject.
For that reason, we work together for world peace. It can not made just by an expert.

Nobel Peace Prize started from 1901. It's been over 100 years since then.
But there's still pain, conflict and war in this world.
In addition, Adolf Hitler, Iosif V. Stalin, Benito Mussolini who are famous for dictatorship were nominated. Even more familiar example, Chun Doo Hwan, former president of South Korea, who seized power through military coup, also nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.

Don't know the standard, and can't see the fruit of award.
No change between before and after.

It would be the fastest and easiest way of world Peace, the Creator destroy and make the world again.

Friday, June 20, 2014

World Refugee Day.

The United Nations is warning of a massive flood of refugees will be appeared by the radical Iraq Sunni militant group attacked in Iraq.
According to UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, about 300 thousand refugees evacuated from Mosul where Islamic State in Iraq (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) occupied

Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said "If it will be a protracted conflict, I think it will be inevitable to have again a meaningful ouftlow of refugees."

Today is World Refugee Day, 20th June.

Refugee is a person who flees their home country due to a "well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion." defined by UN.

United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights' Article 2: " Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status."
Though this declaration is far from reality, we have to defend this.
Refugee is a person.
Human right is more important than the country's.
We are able to go anywhere if it threatened our dignity and the life from where I have lived.
Everyone could been refugee.
I hope all the refugees treated as a human not a criminal.


Monday, June 16, 2014

Man Hee Lee put white rose on the Palm of Peace.

Man Hee Lee put a white rose on the Palm of Peace, a symbol of peace in the Guatemala National Palace.
It is the first time for the Korean civilian after Ban Ki Moon, UN general secretary.
Ban Ki Moon made that event on 2011.
And the Government of Guatemala gave a letter of appreciation to Mr. Lee, peace advocate.



Photo source: http://www.spyghana.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/New-Picture-1.png

There were lots of sad stories in Korea.
But his peace movement and the achievement makes me proud of being Korean.