Chronology of Peace Prize Forums

1989 St. Olaf College
Striving for Peace: Past, Present, Future

· Norman Borlaug, 1970 laureate
· United Nations Peace-Keeping Operations, 1988 laureate (group) 
  represented by Marrack Goulding

1990 Augsburg College
Striving for Peace: Human Rights in the Global Village

· Dr. Andrei Sakharov, 1975 laureate
  represented by widow Yelena Bonner
· Amnesty International, 1977 laureate (group) 
  represented by Peter Duffy
· Special Speaker:
    - President Jimmy Carter

1991 Luther College
Striving for Peace: Leadership in Peacemaking

· Oscar Arias Sanchez, 1987 laureate
· Betty Williams, 1976 laureate
· Special Speakers:
    - Vice President Walter Mondale
    - Luigi R. Einaudi,
          U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States
    - Sara Ruddick, author and professor,
          New School for Social Research
    - The Hon. Loret Ruppe, U.S. Ambassador to Norway
    - Rep. James Leach

1992 Augustana College
Striving for Peace: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

· Elie Wiesel, 1986 laureate
· Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 laureate
· Special Speakers:
    - Cheryl Crazy Bull, vice president of administration and
          director of institutional relations, Sinte Gleska University
    - Camelia Sadat, assistant professor, Bentley College and 
          president, Sadat Peace Institute
    - Ryuzaburo Kaku, chairman of Canon, Inc., Tokyo
    - The Hon. Helga Hernes, undersecretary of state for foreign affairs,
          The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    - Robin Wright, correspondent for the Los Angeles Times

1993 Concordia College
Striving for Peace: The United Nations in a New World

· UNICEF, 1965 laureate (group)
  represented by James P. Grant
· Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees,
          1954, 1981 laureate (group)
  represented by Sadako Ogata
· U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces, 1988 laureate (group)
  represented by Hisako Shimura
· Special Speakers:
    - Vladimir Petrovsky, Undersecretary-General
          for Political Affairs for U.N. 
    - Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    - Paul Wee, Assistant General Secretary for International 
          Affairs and Human Rights, Lutheran World Federation

1994 St. Olaf College
Striving for Peace: Sowing the Seeds of Global Justice

· Rigoberta Menchu, 1992 laureate
· Special Speakers: 
    - Terje Rød Larsen, director general for the Norwegian 
          Institute for Applied Social Science
    - Mona Juul, Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry
    - Dr. Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute
    - Jim Farrell, professor, St. Olaf College
    - The Rev. Bernice King, orator and co-founder for AMEN 
          (Active Ministers Engaged in Nurturing) 
    - Edgar Stoesz, Chair, Habitat for Humanity International

1995 Augsburg College
Striving for Peace: Searching for Common Ground

· Special Speakers:
    - The Hon. R.F. "Pik" Botha, South African Minister of 
          Mineral and Energy Affairs
    - Ambassador George E. Moose, U.S. Assistant Secretary of 
          State for African Affairs
    - The Hon. Franklin Sonn, South African Ambassador to the U.S.
    - Naomi Tutu, economist, visiting assistant professor,
          University of Hartford, Conn.

1996 Luther College
Striving for Peace: From National to Common Security

· Special Speakers:
    - The Honorable Yehuda Avner, personal consultant to
          Prime Minister Shimon Peres
    - Dr. Al-Kidwa, representative of Yassir Arafat
    - The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, general secretary,
          National Council of Churches/USA
    - The Honorable Samuel W. Lewis, US Ambassador to Israel 
          (1977-85) and former President of the US Institute of Peace

1997 Augustana College
Striving for Peace: Science and Ethics in International Affairs

· Dr. Joseph Rotblat, 1995 laureate
· Dr. Francesco Calogero, general secretary, The Pugwash 
          Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1995 laureate (group)
· Special Speakers:
    - Professor Betty Reardon, Director of the Peace Education Program
          at Columbia University (NY)
    - Terry Waite, former envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury 
          and hostage negotiator

1998 Concordia College
Striving for Peace: Visions of Authentic Development

· Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 laureate
· Special Speakers:
    - Nien Cheng, author and human rights activist
    - Dr. Ishmael Noko, General Secretary of Lutheran World Federation
    - Former Vice President and Ambassador to Japan, Walter Mondale

1999 Augsburg College
Striving for Peace: The Morality and Machinery of Modern Conflict

· Jody Williams, 1997 laureate
· International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1997 laureate (group)
  represented by Steve Goose
· Special Speakers:
    - Dr. Larry Rasmussen, the Reinhold Niebuhr chair at 
          Union Theological Seminary
    - Dr. Jan Egeland, retired Norwegian secretary of state and current 
          special adviser for the International Peace Research Institute and 
          the Norwegian Red Cross
    - Dr. John Hamre, deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense

2000 St. Olaf College
Striving for Peace: Risk and Reconciliation

· John Hume, 1998 laureate
· David Trimble, 1998 laureate
· Special Speakers:
    - J Bryan Hehir, member of the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School
    - Sissela Bok, associate of the Harvard Center for Population and 
          Development Studies