Lester Pearson was instrumental in creating the first UN peacekeeping force but he never worshipped at its altar. In fact, while peacekeeping eventually became something of a state religion for ...

But Lester Bowles “Mike” Pearson would grow up to become one of Toronto’s most renowned sons — the only Canadian to win a Nobel Peace Prize and the prime minister who would usher in the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

He rejected peacekeeping, ignored international non ... Mr. Baird removed "Lester B. Pearson Building" from the address on his business card. He ordered a tribute to Mr. Pearson's Nobel Prize ...

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 ...