- Where was mosquito-control logic applied successfully enough to measurably cut malaria deaths?
Civil Wars and Regional Conflicts
Internal and regional armed conflicts.
- What was the Anti-War Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, and how did Saavedra Lamas use it to end the Chaco War?
- Why was the Chaco War fought over territory that turned out to hold little oil?
- Why did the 1937 Peace Prize land amid Ethiopia's conquest and the Spanish Civil War?
- How did Boyd Orr connect malnutrition to geopolitical instability?
- Why did Juan Ramón Jiménez leave Spain in 1936 and never return?
- How does The Bridge on the Drina use a centuries-old Ottoman bridge as a structural device for narrating four hundred years of Bosnian history?
- How did Ivo Andrić's own experience of Bosnia's shift from Ottoman to Austro-Hungarian rule shape his fiction?
- What role did Andrić play as a Yugoslav diplomat in the interwar years, including his posting to Berlin in 1939?
- What did the Paris Peace Accords of January 1973 actually accomplish, and what did they leave unresolved?
- Why did two members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee resign over this prize?
- What happened in Belfast in August 1976 that led Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan to found the Community of Peace People?
- How did the Peace People marches bring together Catholic and Protestant citizens who had been on opposite sides of the Troubles?
- What was the Generation of '27, and why did the Spanish Civil War scatter its members so decisively?
- What happened to Adolfo Pérez Esquivel when the Argentine military junta arrested him in 1977?
- How did awarding Pérez Esquivel the Nobel Peace Prize affect international attention on Argentina's dirty war?
- What refugee crises in the decades after 1950 kept expanding the UNHCR's mandate instead of winding it down?
- What circumstances led the 14th Dalai Lama to flee over the Himalayas into India in 1959?
- How many people believed they held the winning bottle cap, and what happened as a result?
- What did the Good Friday Agreement change about the constitutional status of Northern Ireland?
- What political risks did John Hume and David Trimble each take within their own communities to reach the agreement?
- What resistance did Maathai face from the Kenyan government under Daniel arap Moi?
- How did ElBaradei's inspectors' assessments of Iraq's weapons diverge from the case made for the 2003 invasion?
- How did Ahtisaari's mediation end a three-decade separatist conflict in Aceh, Indonesia, within just two months of serious talks?
- How did Leymah Gbowee's Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace help end the civil war?
- What made Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's 2005 election historically significant for Africa?
- What role did Tawakkol Karman play in Yemen's Arab Spring protests?
- What happened in Ghouta in August 2013 that drew global attention to chemical weapons?
- Why did Peter Handke's statements during the Yugoslav Wars make his Nobel selection controversial?
- What border dispute kept Ethiopia and Eritrea in a frozen state of war for two decades?
- What did Abiy Ahmed do within weeks of taking office to end the conflict with Eritrea?
- How did the Tigray civil war that began in 2020 complicate the legacy of Abiy Ahmed's peace prize?
- Why has conflict overtaken failed harvests as the primary driver of severe food insecurity?
- How does 'Human Acts' approach the 1980 Gwangju Uprising through the experience of both the living and the dead?