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...establishing educational and social programs for disenfranchised Palestinians, but drew international condemnation for its tactics of rebellion against Israel, including terror attacks and suicide bombings. Hamas continued to denounce Israel's presence in the region, demanding a Palestinian Islamic state in its place. Hamas' militancy strained the 1993 Oslo Accords, brokered between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which relinquished control of parts of occupied Gaza and the West Bank to a semi-autonomous government, the Palestinian Authority, in exchange for an agreement to stem the violence. The Palestinian Authority's inability to halt attacks from groups like Hamas...
...disband their troops." Things didn't quite go according to plan. What has worked out, however, is the annual set of awards, established in 1901, that bear his name. They remain the most prestigious intellectual awards in the world. On Dec. 11, 2009, President Obama will travel to Oslo to accept the 90th Nobel Peace Prize, an honor that places him in the distinguished company of the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan and Mother Teresa. See the Top 10 Everything...
...time Yitzhak Rabin arrived at the White House in 1993 to negotiate the Oslo accords, smoking was banned, and he found himself shooed into the cold outdoors for smoke breaks--a fate Obama risks as well. The person who imposed that ban--former First Lady Hillary Clinton--is his nominee for Secretary of State...
Chris L. Rogers, a student at the Law School who is with Docherty in Oslo, said his experience thus far had taught him important lessons about international humanitarian...
After years of talk, the movement to write a treaty banning cluster bombs began in earnest in January 2007, when several countries got fed up with the usual diplomatic process, Docherty said in an interview from Oslo...