He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several Central American countries.

* In 2006, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Colin Powell with the Truman Peace Prize for his efforts to conduct the " war against terrorism ," through diplomatic as well as military means, and to avert regional and civil conflicts in many parts of the world.

Despite Wilson's efforts to establish and promote the League, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 1919, the United States did not join.

The campaign and its leader, Jody Williams, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its efforts.

For these efforts, he was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992 as well as Honorary Doctorates from University of Calgary in 1993, Durham University in 1995, Trinity College in 2002 and University of Münster in 2005, and Eureka College in 2009.

* 1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.

** Peace process in the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, efforts since c. 1991 to find a political accommodation for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

He was also responsible for first intervening and then sending Indian troops ( Indian Peace Keeping Force or IPKF ) for peace efforts in Sri Lanka in 1987, which soon ended in open conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

For these efforts, Kim Dae-jung was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.

Despite the efforts of the United States, Israel, Egypt, and others to obtain an extension of the UN role in observing the peace between Israel and Egypt, as called for under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979, the mandate could not be extended because of the veto by the USSR in the security council, at the request of Syria.

* Received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for his joint efforts with the IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) ( 2007 ).

Oscar Arias Sánchez was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 and the country continues to develop strong efforts for natural conservation-not to mention the friendly locals.

The IPCC has received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 " for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

* December 10 – Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his peackeeping efforts in the United Nations.

** Cold War: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.

The Nansen International Office for Refugees was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to establish the Nansen passports.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1971 for his efforts to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of the Soviet bloc.

Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his back channel efforts before and during the peace negotiations, even though he never went to Portsmouth.

Tho and Henry Kissinger were jointly awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in negotiating the Paris Peace Accords.

These efforts inspired the international focus of the Peace Corps, whose first director, Sargent Shriver, had roots in the area.

The Peace of Westphalia restored him, but to a depopulated and impoverished country, and he spent his remaining years in efforts to repair the disasters of the lengthy war.

He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

Nepal Army's long association with UN Peace Support Operations began with the deployment of five Military Observers in the Middle East, Lebanon ( UNOGIL / United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon ) in 1958.

It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 — three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland — and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty.

The Peace of Augsburg began to unravel, as some converted bishops refused to give up their bishoprics, and as certain Habsburg and other Catholic rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain sought to restore the power of Catholicism in the region.

Supporters of concept of Westphalian sovereignty consider that the modern idea of territorial integrity began with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

Peace negotiations began on December 22, 1917, a week after the conclusion of an armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, at Brest-Litovsk ( modern Brest, Belarus, near the Polish border ).

He also began to speak out against Russia's First Chechen War, forming the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya.

Later that year, Capitol Records signed Megadeth and they began work on their second album, released the next year, titled Peace Sells ... but Who's Buying ?.

Alcibiades first rose to prominence when he began advocating aggressive Athenian action after the signing of the Peace of Nicias.

The so-called Watchful Peace began in 2063 T. A., when Gandalf went to Dol Guldur and the evil dwelling there ( later known to be Sauron ) fled east.

Ossietzky's international rise to fame began in 1936 when, already suffering from serious tuberculosis that was not being treated, he was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize.

These marriages followed the tradition of cementing military and political alliances between France and Spain that began with the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559 as part of the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis.

In the wake of the Athenian defeat in Sicily, revolts began to break out among Athens ' subject states in the Aegean Sea and the Peace of Nicias fell apart ; the Peloponnesian War resumed in full by 412 BC.

She held “ Sunshine ” clubs to teach children about the importance of peaceful politics, and began the Georgia Peace Society in 1928 for adult involvement in her cause.

In medieval Europe, the Roman Catholic Church also began promulgating teachings on just war, reflected to some extent in movements such as the Peace and Truce of God.

He began to appear at Beatlefest conventions and he would get on stage with the Beatlefest house band " Liverpool " to either sing some of his own songs or " Give Peace a Chance.

Peace negotiations began, and in June 842 the brothers met on an island in the Saône.

The Siege of Angband or " The Long Peace " in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fictional universe was the siege of the Noldor around the fortress of Morgoth in the early centuries of the Years of the Sun, which began following the Dagor Aglareb.

Imposition of a " British Peace " on key maritime trade routes began in 1815 with the annexation of British Ceylon.

Harcourt's Peace in the Woods pact which brought together traditionally warring environmental groups and forest workers ' unions began to collapse when Harcourt's cabinet exempted an environmentally-sensitive area of Vancouver Island, Clayoquot Sound, from its province-wide mediation process for land-use conflicts, CORE ( the Commission on Resources and the Environment ).

The 1982 Lebanon War (, Milhemet Levanon Harishona, " the first Lebanon war "), (, Al-ijtiyāḥ, " the invasion "), called Operation Peace for Galilee ( Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil or Mivtsa Sheleg ) by Israel, and later known in Israel as the Lebanon War and First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon.

** American, British and Soviet scientists began to share previously classified controlled fusion research as part of the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva in September.

Peace negotiations began in earnest, leading to the 1654 Treaty of Westminster.

Peace talks between the LTTE and the government began in Thimphu in 1985, but they soon failed, and the war continued.