We, the undersigned Nobel Peace Laureates gathered for the centennial of the Nobel Prizes, express our joy at this year’s award to the United Nations and its Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
We hope that our message of peace and justice will reach the hearts and minds of those in and out of government who have the power to make a better world.
We look forward to a world in which we the peoples, working in cooperation with governments, with full respect for international law, will enable the UN to fulfil its mission to save this and succeeding generations from the scourge of war.
We call for the prompt establishment of the International Criminal Court and full implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including economic, social, and cultural as well as civil and political rights.
We offer our support for the unrelenting, patient, and non-violent pursuit of peace wherever conflicts may rage today or tomorrow, such as the Middle East, Colombia, or the Great Lakes of Africa.
We commit ourselves to work for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction and the reduction and control of small arms and other conventional weapons.
We call on the human family to address the root causes of violence and build a culture of peace and hope. We know that another world is possible, a world of justice and peace. Together we can make it a reality.
Oslo, December 10, 2001
Signed by:
Institute of International Law
1904
International Peace Bureau
Cora Weiss
1910
American Friends Service Committee
Mary Ellen McNish
1947
Norman E. Borlaug
1970
Máiread Corrigan Maguire
1976
Amnesty International
Colm Ó Cuanacháin
1977
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1980
Lech Walesa
1983
Desmond Tutu
1984
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Bernard Lown
1985
Elie Wiesel
1986
Oscar Arias
1987
Rigoberta Menchu Tum
1992
Joseph Rotblat
1995
José Ramos-Horta
1996
Jody Williams
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Jerry White 1997
John Hume
1998
