Who is Barrack Obama?

American president who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 2009.

Who was Sacajawea?

Indian woman who guided Lewis and Clark.

What are civilians (women and children)?

90% of this group are the casualties of modern war?

What is forgiveness?

The act of ceasing to feel resentment against.

What is New York?

The headquarters is located in this city.

Who is Mother Teresa?

Woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her missionary work in India.

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

African American minister who lead a Peace March to Washington, D.C.

What are refugees (and displaced persons)?

Conflicts have produced 31 million of these, most of them women and children.

What is a hunger strike?

This is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of protest.

What is 1945?

Year set up/founded.

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

This person won in 1964 for his work in U.S. with equal rights.

Who is Mahatma Gandhi?

This non-political leader in India used non-violent resistance and forgiveness to get Britain to release his country from their rule.

What is war?

Killer of 2 million children in 20 years.

What is non-violent resistance?

The practice of achieving socio-political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience,etc., without using violence.

What is 192?

The number of member states/countries.

Who was Albert Schweitzer?

Missionary doctor/surgeon from Gabon, Africa won the prize in 1954.

Who is Mother Teresa?

This woman with no possessions made every possible sacrifice to feed the hungry in Calcutta, India.

What is peace?

In the last 5600 years there have been only 292 years of this?

What is a boycott?

A form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.

What is UNICEF/United Nations Children's Fund?

Provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

Who was Woodrow Wilson?

In 1919 this person was the 2nd of 3 U.S. Presidents to win the award and was also the founder of the League of Nations.

Who is the Dalai Lama?

This non-violent person is the leader of Tibet and the reincarnated Buddha, the greatest leader of peace in world history.

What is 18,000?

By the age of 16, the average American child has witnessed this number of murders on television.

What is civil disobedience?

Method of nonviolent resistance; the active refusal to obey certain laws & commands of a government or occupying country.

What are the aims of the U.N.?

Achieving of world peace; facilitating cooperation among countries;promoting human rights, & social /economic progress.