Excerpt from Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (The Carter Center)

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On Dec.10, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

This is an excerpt of President Carter's lecture presented on December 10, 2002.

Read the full text of the lecture here:
http://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/doc1233.html


The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering. Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the Atlanta-based Center has helped to improve the quality of life for people in more than 70 countries.

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