JOHN HUME, M.P. '1998 NOBLE LAUREATE FOR PEACE' VISIT TO ATLANTA
John Hume, former leader of Northern Ireland's Social
Democratic and Labor Party, was one of the
architects of the 1994 cease-fire between the Irish Republican
Army and Unionist paramilitaries, for which he and Ulster Unionist
leader David Trimble shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. He is the
only person ever to receive the Martin Luther King Prize for Nonviolence (1999),
the Gandhi Peace Prize (2001) and the Nobel Prize.
In Atlanta to speak to various audiences about human
rights, Hume also spoke with AJC reporter Shelia M.
Poole about the U.S. civil rights movement, its ties
to the conflict in Northern Ireland and the prospects for peace
in the world today. See her Q&A.
Venues: Friday 2/18/05 Georgia
State University, Rialto Theatre @1:30 PM
Emory University, The White Hall
@4 PM
Sat. 2/19 @ 2PM "Human Rights in Crisis" Symposium - Georgia Tech.
Sun. 2/20 @ 11AM at The Ebenezer Baptist Church
