Memorial protocol for Shimon Peres at the Nobel Peace Center

The Nobel Peace Center staff share the grief of people all across the world on the loss of Shimon Peres. A memorial protocol will be available to all who want a place to go to remember the Peace Prize Laureate of 1994. A digital memorial protocol is available on our website.

Shimon Peres has been called “the hawk who turned into a dove”. He was controversial and contradictory – a visionary peace dove and a cynical strategist at the same time, says Executive Director, Liv Tørres at the Nobel Peace Center. Peres said that “after everything I have seen in my life, I earned the right to believe that peace is attainable.”

He played an important role in Israeli politics for more than 60 years. In 1994, together with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin,  he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Oslo Agreement. The prize was, as the chairman of the Nobel Committee Francis Sejersted pointed out, “awarded both in recognition of efforts which have been made, and to encourage still further efforts”. Peres is the last of the three to pass away. Now, it is up to others to continue the work for peace in the Middle East, and fulfill Peres’ goal of a Middle East «in which men are each other's hosts, not hostages".

A momorial protocol is available for visitors to the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. A digital version is available on our website:

http://nobelpeacecenter.org/protokoll