The award was announced in October, and he will receive it on December 10 at the Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway.
Martti Ahtisaari is the former President of Finland. In 1990, Ahtisaar played "a key role in supporting the emergence of Namibia as a free and sovereign nation," said Ishmael Noko, the General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation.
Ahtisaari was the UN special commissioner for Namibia in southern Africa from 1977 to 2001. He was also a UN special envoy for Kosovo, the predominantly ethnic Albanian province of Serbia. He has also been active in seeking peaceful resolutions to conflicts in Iraq, Northern Ireland, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa.
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