Honoring and Inspiring Peacemakers
The mission of the Nobel Peace Laureate Project (NPLP) is to honor those Americans who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and to “honor and inspire future peacemakers”. Two scholarships have been established in that spirit:
This scholarship was named in honor of John Attig, NPLP Founder, and Jean Carley, a Founding Board member. It was created to encourage young people to explore, model, and promote peace in their lives, communities and the world.
NPLP has established a scholarship to encourage young advocates to continue to work towards a peaceful future. In 2025, NPLP board member Dr. John Alcott presented two $2,500 scholarships to very deserving students who want to continue to work for peace.
One of the objectives of the Nobel Peace Laureate Project is to promote a greater awareness of the contributions that peacemakers have made throughout history. By learning more about the Americans who have received the Nobel Peace Prize, we can learn from their contributions to world peace.
The Nobel Peace Laureate Project developed biographical profiles for each of the 24 American Peace Laureates. A brief profile appears on each of the Nobel Peace Laureate plaques in the Nobel Peace Park. Comprehensive biographical profiles of the American Peace Laureates are available on our website. To learn more about each of the laureates, visit the Nobel Peace Prize page.
NPLP has also compiled and developed materials for classroom instruction. The work was made possible by a grant from the Jubitz Family Foundation, Portland, Oregon. High School lessons were created for NPLP by Nancy Newman (secondary social studies teacher), Jerry Ragan (high school history teacher) and Jessica Tuerk (social studies teacher). Middle School lessons were created for NPLP by Nancy Newman, David Mandelblatt and Laura Slemp.
These lesson plans contain biographical essays, classroom activities, vocabulary, and discussion questions. Click here to access the American Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Each profile contains a “.pdf” file which has been structured as lessons for students. Schools who have used the lessons find that the biographical profiles supplement and deepen the study of U.S. History.
As Dr. Lura Pierce said, after introducing the on-line American Peace Laureate curriculum into her lesson plans,
“People have called for a course in school called PEACE 101. This could be it.”
Individual files can be obtained on the webpage for each Laureate.
Click on the file names to download:
• Introduction for the teacher - ( 4KB )
• Introduction to the Peace Prize - ( 10KB )
• Assessment Activities - ( 22KB )
• Introduction to elementary lesson plans - ( 44KB )
For Nobel laureate biographies and study materials, visit our Nobel Peace Prize page
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