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Nomination: For his humanitarian efforts and for inspiring the world through Social Action.
Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth president of the United States, served as Commander and Chief from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981. Significant foreign policy accomplishments of his administration included the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. He championed human rights throughout the world.
President Carter founded The Carter Center in 1982. Carter Center fellows, associates and staff join with President Carter in efforts to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights and prevent disease and other afflictions. Through the Global 2000 programs, the Center advances health and agriculture in the developing world.
President Carter and The Carter Center have engaged in conflict mediation in Ethiopia and Eritrea (1989), North Korea (1994), Liberia (1994), Haiti (1994), Bosnia (1994), Sudan (1995), the Great Lakes region of Africa (1995-1996), Sudan and Uganda (1999), and Venezuela (2002-2003). Under his leadership The Carter Center has sent fifty-four international election-monitoring delegations to elections in the Americas, Africa and Asia.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteer each year with Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps needy people in the United States and in other countries renovate and build homes for themselves. Jimmy teaches Sunday School and is a deacon in the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains. The Carters have three sons, one daughter, eight grandsons, and three granddaughters.
On December 10, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Mr. Carter “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
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