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I get this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. There is a price that speaks to our dearest wish – to all the cruelty and suffering in our world, we are not only prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history to justice.

And yet I would be wrong if I do not know the great controversy that generous decision has generated. Partly it is because I am the beginning and not the end of my work on the international scene. Compared with some of the giants of history who have received this award – Schweitzer and King, Marshall and Nelson Mandela – my holdings are small. And then there are men and women around the world who have been imprisoned and beaten in the fight for justice for those who toil in the humanitarian organizations to alleviate suffering, recognized the one million, if the actions and compassion inspire even the most hardened of cynics. I can not argue with those who believe that these men and women – some famous, some obscure to all but those they help – to be far more worthy of this honor than I.

But perhaps the most profound questions about my receiving this award is that I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the middle of two wars. One of these wars is an abandonment. The other is a conflict that the U.S. has not tried when we are united with forty three other countries – including Norway – in an attempt to defend ourselves and all nations from further attack.

But we are at war, and I am responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to fight in a distant land. Some want to kill. Some will be killed. And so I come here with an acute sense of the cost of armed conflict – filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our efforts to replace it with others.

These problems are not new. War, in one form or another, showed the first man. In early history, its morality is not in doubt, it was just a fact that drought or disease – where the tribes and civilizations sought power and settled their differences.

Over time, such as codes of law designed to combat violence in groups so that philosophers, priests and statesmen seek to regulate the destructive force of war. The concept of a “just war” came out, suggesting that the war is justified only if it meets certain conditions: if it is waged as a last resort or in self-defense if they are forced used is proportional, and if so, when possible civil spared from violence.

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