President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, which encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy

"Waking up a president in the middle of the night, this isn't really something you do," Jagland said.

The Nobel Committee lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation but recognized initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation welcomed the award on behalf of its founder Nelson Mandela, who shared the 1993 Peace Prize with then-South African President F.W. DeKlerk for their efforts at ending years of apartheid and laying the groundwork for a democratic country.

"We trust that this award will strengthen his commitment, as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, to continue promoting peace and the eradication of poverty," the foundation said.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."
reports

obama, obama nobel prize, nobel peace prize, obama noble peace prize, obama nobel
Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize;

Congrats to Barack Obama for 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
read details at : Peace 2009
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009. "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and ... Photo: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden Transition Project, ...
nobelprize.org