Jimmy Carter Won The Nobel Peace Prize in 2002

Carter moved to Plains, Georgia, to retire. Since that time, Carter has led in both diplomacy and humanitarianism. He actively supports Habitat for Humanity, as does his wife. Additionally, he has engaged in both professional and private diplomatic activities. He worked with North Korea to draft a stabilizing agreement in 1994. For his decades of tireless work to find peaceful resolutions to international crises, advance democracy and human rights, and foster economic and social development, he was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. It was actually overdue, the Nobel Committee had intended to give him the Prize in 1978, after he had assisted in arranging peace talks between Israel and Egypt, but no one had put out a nomination before the official nomination period had ended.

During his presidential campaigns, Carter voiced his adamant opposition to the death penalty, which has made him well known. Carter advocated “prohibition of the death penalty” in his Nobel Prize lecture. He has persisted in speaking out against the death punishment, both domestically and internationally. Carter pushed the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, to approve a bill that would replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole.