ELIE DUCOMUMUN,FIRST FIELD REPORTER TO WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

ELIE DUCOMUMUN,FIRST FIELD REPORTER TO WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU..

Contrary to previously held opinion,A Swiss Journalist and pacifist ,The Late Mr Ellie Ducommun actually shared the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize with Charles Albert Cobat.

Checks by The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria through Encyclopaedia Americana ,page 451 showed that Ducommun was born in Geneva ,Switzerland on February,19th,1833.

It was gathered that the reporter had served as Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper:Revue De Geneve before moving on to Berne where he had edited Der Fortschritt..

Widely known during his lifetime for liberal ideas and for his activities on  behalf of peace ,he had taken part in the first of a series of peace conference in 1889 before he was commissioned by the Congress of Rome in 1891 to organize  the international Bureau of Peace at Berne.

He became Honorary secretary of The Permanent Bureau  as he won the Nobel Prize for his works in creating the organization..

Ducommum died in Berne in December,7th,1906 and his works for peace includes the following:
L"oeuvre de la paxx [1893] ,la programme pratique des amis de la paxx[1897] and Preci's historique du mouvement on favour de la paix.