Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for what presenters cited as decades of work seeking peaceful solutions and promoting social and economic justice.
Carter, Democratic president from 1977 to 1981, has won praise for his tireless work as an ex-president in trying to bring peace to places from Haiti to North Korea.
Announcing the winner on Friday, the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Carter's decades of "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
Carter, 78, told CNN he was called by the committee at 4:30 a.m., about 30 minutes before he normally gets up.
"Obviously, I'm very grateful to the Nobel Committee for choosing me," Carter said. "I think they've announced very clearly that the work of the Carter Center has been a wonderful contribution to the world for the last 20 years." Source.
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