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Also known as Ralph J. Bunche, Ralph Johnson Bunche

diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904–1971)

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Ralph Bunche was an American author and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Born on August 7, 1904, he died in December 1971. His published works include *African American in South Africa* and *The Near East and the Great Powers*.

Bunche was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Peace collection. He is referenced by 1,439 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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  • African American in South Africa
  • The Near East and the Great Powers

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1904-08-07
Active to
1971-12-09

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man.
  • The world and its peoples being as they are, there is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won. Nor can it be won cheaply, as the taxpayer is learning.
  • A favourable climate for peaceful negotiation must be created and can only be created by painstaking, unremitting effort. Conflicting parties must be led to realize that the road to peace can never be traversed by threatening to fight at every bend, by merely being armed to the teeth, or by flushing every bush to find an enemy. An essential first step in a civilized approach to peace in these times would call for a moratorium on recrimination and reproach.
  • To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honourable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions which beget further war.
  • In the final analysis, the acid test of a genuine will to peace is the willingness of disputing parties to expose their differences to the peaceful processes of the United Nations and to the bar of international public opinion which the United Nations reflects. It is only in this way that truth, reason, and justice may come to prevail over the shrill and blatant voice of propaganda; that a wholesome international morality can be cultivated.
  • There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, "reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations".

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Peace Prize1950

    for his work as mediator in Palestine in 1948-1949

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Encyclopedic overview

Ralph Johnson Bunche (/bʌntʃ/ BUNCH; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is the first black Nobel laureate and the first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He was involved in the formation and early administration of the United Nations (UN), serving as the under‑secretary‑general and briefly the acting secretary-general in 1953, and played a major role in both the decolonization process and numerous UN peacekeeping operations.

Bunche served on the US delegation to both the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944 and United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945 that drafted the UN charter. He then served on the American delegation to the first session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946 and joined the UN as head of the Trusteeship Department, beginning a long series of troubleshooting roles and responsibilities related to decolonization. In 1948, Bunche became an acting mediator for the Middle East, negotiating an armistice between Egypt and Israel. For this success he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ralph Bunche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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