Word: lundestad
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...late. The former U.S. President should have been a laureate in 1978, when he brokered the Camp David accords with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. But the Egyptian and Israeli leaders shared that year's award, while Carter was left out for the most mundane of reasons, says Geir Lundestad, secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. "Nobody nominated him in time...
Despite criticism of Berge's candor, the committee has always been part of, not above, the political fray. The Prize, says Lundestad, "is a loudspeaker and a microphone" that has been used to bless peacemakers and to boost their causes - equality in South Africa, freedom in Burma, independence in East Timor. "One cannot say, 'Here's an important process, let's find a name,'" says St?lsett, who is also the Bishop of Oslo. "But it's a bonus if we can send a message...
...chance "for a face-to-face, heart-to-heart talk," says St?lsett. "The laureate knows he has our respect - so it's fun." The most memorable Little Dinner was in 1994, when Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin broke bread together. They talked "like old friends," recalls Lundestad, "about Jerusalem, block by block, who lived where, about the city's past, about its present situation...
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