to create peace. peace is often the product of complicated negotiations among warring parties, and the committee also tries to award those who award peace and in 1973 there was an uproar when the prize was awarded to then secretary of state henry kissinger and the vietnamese peace advocate and the prize was later awarded to sadat and begin for peace negotiations, the same year they signed the peace accord. tended three years of bitter hostilities in warnings but begin was an ultra conservative and guerrilla. to many he was little more than a terrorist and when he arrived in oslo there were such forceful protests against him that the organizers posted the ceremony to a medieval for trempts the committee once again waded into middle east politics in 1949