The Nobel Peace Prize has gone to some less-than-deserving recipients over the years (understatement). But in honour of St Patrick's Day, here's some homework for you on two recipients who did, in fact, deserve the prize.
https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/laureates/1998
You can read the entirety of the Good Friday Agreement online. For such an incredibly important document, it isn't that long.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-belfast-agreement
The Good Friday Agreement only came about through a heroic effort by so many people. A tremendous amount of forgiveness and forbearance was needed on both sides to even sit in the same room as each other after all that had been done to their people. But there they sat, eventually, and they talked, and they agreed.
Peace once seemed to be impossible in Northern Ireland. It wasn't. We've been at peace for 28 years now.
It wasn't easy. But it reminds you of what can be possible.
@BLatro I've never heard that saying before. How bleak. Are we to assume no problems are solvable then?
A certain type of person likes to put on an attitude of dark cynicism because they believe it makes them more intelligent than people who have hope, and that's what that reminds me of.
@astronomerritt
"Are we to assume no problems are solvable then"
No, it's just specific to the topic being talked about. Think the Middle East for a current example. How far back do its troubles go?
Steph (crisis version)
Carl B. Latro