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From left to right, Kenya's Wangari Maathai, environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize for 2004, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, British civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize for 1976, Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the 1990 winner who helped end the Cold War, Kim Dae-Jung, who won the prize in 2000 for improving inter-Korean relations, Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian women's rights activist who won the prize in 2003, pose with hand prints before opening ceremony of 2006 Gwangju Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Gwangju on Friday, June 16, 2006. The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates is an annual forum that started in Italy in 1999, in which the laureates discuss current global issues on peace and democracy and announce the outcome of their talks. This is the first time the summit takes place outside Rome. (AP Photo / Kim Jae-hwan, pool)