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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2003

James Joyner · Friday, October 10, 2003 · 1 comment

I’d frankly never heard of Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi before hearing this morning that she’d won this year’s prize.

Daniel Drezner thinks she’s a big upgrade over last year’s choice, Jimmy Carter. Greg Bair thinks so too, although he shares my general disdain for many of the recent winners.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

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Begging To Differ says:

Friday, October 10, 2003 at 13:58

NOBEL’S PORTENT
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner: an Iranian female lawyer: A small model of the Statue of Liberty once sat on the desk in the Tehran law office of Shirin Ebadi, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. But…

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