Barack Obama was the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. A video of his Nobel lecture, a short documentary of his life and photos from the award ceremony can be viewed here.

This lesson plan will help students to learn about the goal of world peace and what they can do to positively impact the world.

There are five teaching units on peace education on this site, ranging for ages 8 to 14+. Topics cover ecological awareness, tolerance, social justice, global citizenship, etc. There are many links in the resource area for United Nations...

The International Day of Peace, a.k.a. "Peace Day" provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date.

Some 150,000 Americans have served in the Peace Corps since it was formed in 1961. Peace Corps volunteers live and work for two years in communities in the developing world. They must learn the languages of the people they serve. They...

Learn about the 1950 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize through this website, which provides the prize "Presentation Speech," Ralph Bunche's (1904-1971 CE) Nobel Lecture entitled "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time," and a brief...

Read about the peacemaking efforts for which Theodore Roosevelt was honored through the Nobel Peace Prize. This Nobel E-Museum website includes both primary and secondary resources as well as links and titles of suggested readings for...

At this site read about Mother Teresa (1910-1997 CE), the 1979 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the charitable works through which she helped the poor of Calcutta. This website includes texts of original documents and speeches, a...

Read about the Soviet nuclear physicist, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989 CE), who received the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize for his "Struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations." This website is...

Read about Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972 CE), the 1957 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. This website includes both primary and secondary resources and a "Selected Bibliography," for further research and reading.

Instructions for making paper peace cranes and directions on how to share the story of the peace crane.

The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. Santos worked ceaselessly to end a civil war that has endured for fifty years and affected millions of citizens. While the efforts for peace and its...

Resource provides "The Sinews of Peace Address," which is regarded as Winston Churchill's most important speech as Leader of the Opposition. In audio, also.

Read about Linus Carl Pauling, the winner of the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. This website is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Other Resources," and "The Nobel Chemistry Prize 1954."

This Nobel E-Museum website on the winner of the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize, "Kim Dae-jung," is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Video," and "Nobel Diploma." Read...

In this interactive lesson plan, students watch videos from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Great War, read primary source documents and video transcripts, and analyze data to better understand how and why the U.S. and European leaders differed...

Content includes the full text of the Paris Peace Treaty 1783 which ended the United States War for Independence.

The Peace of Paris Treaty was signed in 1783 between Britain, France, and America, ending the American Revolutionary War. It also established much of the border with Canada. This page gives a concise overview of the agreement and is part...

Read about Elie Weisel, the author of "Night," and the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. This Nobel e-Museum website includes a biography and video clips.

Use this site to learn about the 1983 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Lech Walesa, through primary and secondary resources as well as video clips.

The complete text of "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy is available here in PDF format. War and Peace, which was first released in 1865, is 2,299 pages pages long.

Video and text of Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech delivered on December 10, 2017, in Oslo, Norway.

Downloadable lesson plans for middle and high school learners based on The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama exhibit. Lessons include interview/discussion activites for the module Pathways to Empathy and art lessons related...

This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How can we achieve peace?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required...