Canada played a central role in the early development of UN Peacekeeping. In 1957, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his ...

On this date in 1957, then Canadian external affairs minister Lester B Pearson received a telegram from Sweden. It informed him of his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was due to events ...

As I outline in Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: the truth may hurt the ... to which Chomsky responded, “the Lester B. Pearson Airport”, detailing Pearson’s contribution to the US war ...

The conflict, dubbed the Suez Crisis, has been at a boil for days when a Canadian diplomat, Lester B. "Mike" Pearson, proposes a solution to the United Nations. Canadian leaders are in a sticky ...

As Canada looks to reclaim a prominent role in peacekeeping, we can look to the example of Lester B. Pearson, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway 60 years ago this month.

Lester B. Pearson was the Canadian Minister of External ... It was the first large international peacekeeping force. It included 6000 men from ten countries under the command of a Canadian General ...

LESTER B. PEARSON was Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He was previously Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1947 to 1958. For his efforts to organize a United Nations ...

Why he’s famous: Putting the peacekeeping bug in the UN’s ear, though the blue helmets were somebody else’s idea. Why he deserves to win: Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1957 ...

Pearson’s birth, held in the Lester B. Pearson Building on Sussex Drive ... in foreign affairs to shape the compromise that made peacekeeping a reality – though he always took pains to ...