USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Jimmy Carter, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.

Detailed explanation-2: -While the President of the United States, George W. Bush, was planning war on Iraq in the autumn of 2002, former President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Peace Prize for undertaking peace negotiations, campaigning for human rights, and working for social welfare.

Detailed explanation-3: -Among the honors Carter has received are the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Others include: Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1977. Silver Buffalo Award, Boy Scouts of America, 1978.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1920. During the selection process in 1919, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that none of the year’s nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel.