Thich Nhat Hanh is a contemporary Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist and writer, who, during the Vietnam War worked tirelessly for reconciliation between the North and South...more

As both an artist and global citizen, Arundhati Roy writes about civil societies that are adversely affected by the world's most powerful governments and corporations. more

Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a Quiché Mayan human rights activist from Guatemala, official spokesperson for the U.N. International Decade of Indigenous Peoples (1994-2003), author of I, Rigoberta Menchú, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize... more

In 2002 President Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "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." more