This initiative, which is being promoted by a commission of 17 Nobel Peace laureates, would insure that weapons are not sold to countries that violate human rights or suppress democracy.

Over the years I have had the further privilege to meet a number of Nobel Peace laureates.

His hunger strike mobilized the international human rights community, "including eight former Nobel Peace laureates.

Mohamed ElBaradei (Nobel Peace 2005)

In 1944, the ICRC received its second Nobel Peace Prize.

Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Holocaust authority, saw "Music Box" in preview and found it very moving.

China reviles the Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual leader Dalai Lama, saying he supports the use of violence to establish an independent Tibet.

Q+A-Is it the Nobel "Peace" or "Political" prize?

"Our view may have been one-sided and overstated," said Mr. Mandela, a Nobel Peace laureate as well as South African's first post-apartheid president.

It is the native town of Zilda Arns, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Brazilian physician.