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Swanee Hunt, the director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was one of 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last week, as part of a symbolic gesture meant to highlight the work women do to promote peace...
Hunt was nominated as part of the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” initiative, which was started by a Swiss non-governmental organization that wanted to honor women engaged in peacekeeping efforts. Since the organization’s inception in 1901, only 12 women have won the Peace Prize...
Because the Nobel cannot be given to 1,000 people, only three of the women were formally nominated for the prize. Hunt...
Margo Okazawa-Rey, the 1,000 Women Nobel Peace Prize coordinator for the U.S., Canada, Japan and Korea, praised the decision to include Hunt among the 1,000 names...
...Nobel Peace Prize panel will award the 2005 prize in October. In the event that one of the 1,000 Women for Peace is chosen, her prize money will go toward strengthening the organizations for which the 1,000 women work...