March 14

• Minneapolis Star Tribune: Nobel Forum explores challenges facing business by Neal St. Anthony

March 7

• Associated Press:��Former Vice President Mondale hospitalized with flu at Mayo Clinic
• KARE 11:��Flu keeps Mondale from Jimmy Carter speech
• WRCB Chattanooga:��Jimmy Carter confirms at Peace Prize Forum Vice President hospitalized

March 6

• Business Insider:��Former Vice President Mondale hospitalized with flu
• KARE 11:��Former President Carter in Minnesota to talk peace, women’s rights��by Jana Shortal
• KMSP/Fox 9: Former President Jimmy Carter in Minneapolis for Nobel Peace Prize Forum
• Minnesota Public Radio:
  • Enemies to peacemakers – Nigerian pastor and imam discuss faith with Tom Crann
  • President Jimmy Carter: There’s a lack of peacemakers among world leaders with Tom Crann
• Minneapolis Star Tribune:��At age 90, Jimmy Carter working on memoir to be published in July
• Pierce County Herald: Minnesota News Round-Up includes Nobel Peace Prize Forum
• Pioneer Press: Carter confirms at Forum Mondale hospitalized
• WCCO
  • Former President Jimmy Carter speaks on women, human rights at Nobel Peace Prize Forum��by Pat Kessler
  • 4 things to know: Jimmy Carter visit, Harrison Ford’s crash landing, and more
  • Jimmy Carter Flies into Minneapolis, greets passengers on plane

March 5

Bring Me the News: Former President Jimmy Carter to speak at Nobel Prize event in Minneapolis

March 2

• Minnesota Public Radio:��A Higgs boson dress? ‘Nobel Creations’ honors laureates through fashion by Marianne Combs

February 27

• Star Tribune: Amid world turbulence, a #peaceitforward campaign by John Rash

February 25

• �Ѿ��ԲԱʴDz���:��Pamela Espeland’s��Artscape round up includes briefs about the Nobel Peace Prize Forum as well as Nobel Creations at the American Swedish Institute

February 19

• Grand Forks Herald:��Former teacher shares harrowing tale of growing up in Nazi Germany by Jennifer Johnson

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U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who was an honored Laureate featured at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Forum, spoke with Minnesota Public Radio prior to his presentation to a sold-out crowd of 650 delegates to the Forum. Carter spoke with MPR’s Tom Crann about the lack of world leaders who are peacemakers.��“We don’t have a global champion of peace like Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi now,” he told Crann. “None of the government leaders who represent the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are notable for promoting peace.” Listen to “.”

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Yemi Melka ’15

The Nobel Peace Prize Forum held a professional photo shoot at Augsburg College as part of the national social media campaign. Students, faculty, and staff stopped by throughout the day to take photos��with hand-written signs displaying how they help to build peace. The participants’ photos will be shown as part of a video at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Forum.

The Nobel Peace Prize Forum, sponsored��by Augsburg College and other organizations, will feature former President Jimmy Carter as an honored��laureate speaker. On the docket for��President Carter��is��a moderated discussion titled, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power.”

To��read more on the #PeaceItForward campaign, visit the Star Tribune news site. To, visit the NPPF site.

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The 2015 forum, which boasts former president Jimmy Carter as a featured speaker, will focus on human rights, disarmament, inclusivity, and various other peace-related issues.

To read the article��and learn more about the NPPF, .

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(MINNEAPOLIS) – The 27^th annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum will explore the world’s most pressing peacemaking issues faced by people across the globe. The March 6-8 event, at the Radisson Blu Downtown, will explore different aspects of peace building including human rights and democracy, disarmament, sustainability and inclusivity. Speaker highlights include:

• March 6 – Human Rights and Democracy
  • Honored Laureate��in a moderated discussion, “Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power.”
  • , Deputy Chair of The Elders and Former Prime Minister of Norway, will discuss human rights and democracy.
  • , former Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and signatory to the Good Friday Agreement.

• March 7 – Disarmament and Sustainability
  • Honored Laureate the represented by Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü will discuss disarmament and peace.
  • Adama Dieng, the United Nation’s special adviser on prevention of genocide, will discuss the murder, torture, looting, and destruction of property that likely is a war crime and ethnic cleansing.
  • of Kaduna, Nigeria, work to resolve conflicts between warring religious youth militias, but a decade ago the two men were mortal enemies.
  • , author of The Better Angels of our Nature, will talk about four human motivations that can turn us away from violence and toward cooperation and altruism.

• March 8 – Inclusivity in Peace Building
  • , cofounder of the International Civil Society Action Network, will address the issue of women and extremism.
  • , who grew up indoctrinated in Adolf Hitler’s Germany, will discuss her experience and that of ordinary German citizens.
  • Roxanne Mankin Cason, of the Cason Family Foundation; and Ingrid Stange, the founder of Partnership for Change; will discuss how women business leaders are promoting peace and empowering girls and women.

Purchase tickets, review the full schedule, and learn about lodging accommodations at

Under the auspices of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum inspires peacemaking by focusing on the work of Nobel Peace Prize laureates and important international peacemakers and peace builders. For more than 27 years, the Forum has been one of only three programs officially associated with the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

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