Nobel Prizes

PeaceJam founders headed to the United Nations for global call to action

When we last caught up with Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of the homegrown PeaceJam, they were on their way to Guatamela, to spend December 21, 2012 -- that important date on the Mayan calendar -- with Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Mayan elders and hundreds of indigen ... More >>

PeaceJam leaders are predicting a busy 2013

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Meet David Wineland, Boulder-based co-winner of the Nobel Prize for physics

The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder needs some lessons in publicity. NIST's own David Wineland has just been named co-winner of the Nobel Prize for physics -- an incredibly prestigious honor for Wineland and the facility. Yet at this writing, there's no reference to the awa ... More >>

PeaceJam co-founder recalls connection with now-traveling Aung San Suu Kyi

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma is currently in Thailand, her first international trip in 24 years. Suu Kyi spent much of the past two decades under a house arrest enforced by the ruling military junta, which has since been replaced. Now freed, Suu Kyi has been elected to Parliament. The ... More >>

PeaceJam founders on the time they helped Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys get an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the '90s

While we've been mourning the untimely passing of Adam Yauch (aka MCA) of the Beastie Boys last week and reminiscing about the act's shows in Denver, we've learned that the musician/activist had pretty interesting ties to our city beyond playing here nearly a dozen times over the past two decades. B ... More >>

Shirin Ebadi comes to Denver as another Nobel Peace Prize winner pulls out of Chicago summit

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work in Northern Ireland, has pulled out of the twelfth World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates that starts Monday in Chicago. "That's what happens when you don't hold your big Nobel events in Denver!," jokes Dawn Engle, a founde ... More >>

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Eyes on the prize: Pray the Devil Back to Hell focuses on Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner.​The five-part "Women, War & Peace" spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones. Part two of this series, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee and her work in organizing the women of Liberia to unite, ul ... More >>

Browser game of the week: The Man with the Invisible Trousers

​Sometimes all it takes to arouse our frontal lobes is a name that makes us stop and think. That's certainly the case with The Man with the Invisible Trousers, a title so curious we had to stop in and set up shop. Thankfully, the gameplay matches the title and we found it a rather enjoyable li ... More >>

The 2012 apocalypse scenario is all wrong, say filmmakers

What week is it? A breakdown of everything you could be celebrating, December 6-12

​For about the next two weeks, the daylight hours will continue to get shorter, leaving little to do but contemplate the existential despair that comes with the gathering darkness, and maybe try to get some Christmas shopping done. Unless you're Jewish, in which case it's day six of Hanukkah, ... More >>

Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Prize winner, inspires Denver one community at a time

Rigoberta Menchú Tum.​Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, visited two at-risk Denver communities yesterday, not to preach peace but to preach "harmony." For Menchú Tum and Mayan spiritual teachers Don Pedro Yac Noj and Doña Faviana Cochoy Alva, who are traveling wi ... More >>

PeaceJam looks ahead to 2012, Mayan style

Bradlee ArendtRigoberta Menchu.​Kate Power is one of the few people who can say that her job is "never boring." Power works at PeaceJam, the Arvada-based non-profit that collaborates with Nobel Peace Prize winners to teach kids how to foster peace around the world. "The kids really value tha ... More >>

2012: Mayan end-times prophecies, courtesy of PeaceJam

​It's been quite a year for PeaceJam, the homegrown organization that uses Nobel Peace Prize winners to empower kids to fight for peace around the globe. But the challenges of the past year -- including a major restructuring and a new PeaceJam office -- are nothing compared to what 2012 might ... More >>

Obama gives $125,000 in Nobel Prize money to Denver-based American Indian College Fund: Find something to hate about that!

Courtesy of the White House"The Republicans can't blast me for doing this, can they?"​These days, pretty much everything President Barack Obama does is criticized by someone or other. But his detractors will have to work overtime to fault him for his decision regarding the money he received f ... More >>

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Give PeaceJam a chance: Buy a guitar

​The five hand-painted guitars signed by ten Nobel Peace Prize winners that will be auctioned off on eBay today are truly for the man who has everything -- although "that's not true until they buy one of the guitars!," points out Ivan Suvanjieff, the founder of PeaceJam, the organization that ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Pull some strings for Peacejam

​It's been a tough year for Peacejam, the homegrown nonprofit that over the past fifteen years has reached out to hundreds of thousands of kids around the globe, showing them that in the toughest circumstances, it's still possible to push for peace -- and then proving it by bringing ten Nobel ... More >>

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Wake-Up Call: A noble, if not Nobel, calling

​Yesterday was a long day in Idledale, the tiny town in the foothills where Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff put up their feet when they're not pounding the pavement on behalf of PeaceJam, the non-profit they founded over a dozen years ago that links up youth from around the world with Nobel Pea ... More >>

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Today's Night & Day featured event: Jody Williams gives PeaceJam a chance

Jody Williams. Sure, Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention in August 2008, filling the town with bold names and high hopes. Still, for sheer exuberance and truly Nobel intentions, it didn't top the tenth anniversary celebration of PeaceJam, which in September 2006 brought a dozen Nobel P ... More >>

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