Nobel Peace Topics
Peacemakers History
Peace Facts
Peace Ideas/Theories
United Nations
100
American president who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 2009.
Who is Barrack Obama?
100
Indian woman who guided Lewis and Clark.
Who was Sacajawea?
100
90% of this group are the casualties of modern war?
What are civilians (women and children)?
100
The act of ceasing to feel resentment against.
What is forgiveness?
100
The headquarters is located in this city.
What is New York?
200
Woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her missionary work in India.
Who is Mother Teresa?
200
African American minister who lead a Peace March to Washington, D.C.
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
Conflicts have produced 31 million of these, most of them women and children.
What are refugees (and displaced persons)?
200
This is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of protest.
What is a hunger strike?
200
Year set up/founded.
What is 1945?
300
This person won in 1964 for his work in U.S. with equal rights.
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
This non-political leader in India used non-violent resistance and forgiveness to get Britain to release his country from their rule.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
300
Killer of 2 million children in 20 years.
What is war?
300
The practice of achieving socio-political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience,etc., without using violence.
What is non-violent resistance?
300
The number of member states/countries.
What is 192?
400
Missionary doctor/surgeon from Gabon, Africa won the prize in 1954.
Who was Albert Schweitzer?
400
This woman with no possessions made every possible sacrifice to feed the hungry in Calcutta, India.
Who is Mother Teresa?
400
In the last 5600 years there have been only 292 years of this?
What is peace?
400
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 a boycott?
400
Provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.
What is UNICEF/United Nations Children's Fund?
500
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 was Woodrow Wilson?
500
This non-violent person is the leader of Tibet and the reincarnated Buddha, the greatest leader of peace in world history.
Who is the Dalai Lama?
500
By the age of 16, the average American child has witnessed this number of murders on television.
What is 18,000?
500
Method of nonviolent resistance; the active refusal to obey certain laws & commands of a government or occupying country.
What is civil disobedience?
500
Achieving of world peace; facilitating cooperation among countries;promoting human rights, & social /economic progress.
What are the aims of the U.N.?