The Real Nobel Peace Prize is supported by the Lay Down Your Arms Association. The Lay Down Your Arms Association was incorporated and registered in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2014. Founding members and board are Tomas Magnusson (Sweden) and Fredrik S. Heffermehl (Norway). The Real Nobel Peace Prize book is part of its efforts to make the Nobel prize serve the ideas and champions of peace Alfred Nobel described in his testament.
Fredrik S. Heffermehl
Fredrik S. Heffermehl, Oslo, Norway, lawyer and author. Member of the IPB, International Peace Bureau, Steering Committee, 1985 to 2000.
Vice president of IALANA, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. Former president of the Norwegian Peace Council 1985 to 2000.
Published Peace is Possible (English, IPB, 2000 – appeared in 17 translations). In 2008 he published (in Norwegian) the first known legal analysis of the legally binding purpose of the Nobel peace prize, followed up in 2010, The Nobel Peace Prize. What Nobel Really Wanted, (Praeger, 2010. Appeared in 4 translations, Chinese, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish), later in Medaljens bakside. His latest work, appeared in English late 2023, entitled The real Nobel Peace Prize. A Squandered Opportunity to Abolish War (publisher: Lay Down Your Arms Association/realnobelpeace.org).
Phone: +47 917 44 783
Email: mail@nobelwill.org
Website: nobelwill.org
Tomas Magnusson
Tomas Magnusson, Gothenburg, Sweden, After 20 years on the IPB, International Peace Bureau, Steering committee, was President from 2006 to 2013.
Earlier President of SPAS, the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society.
A journalist by education, he has spent most of his life by working voluntarily and professionally
with peace, development and migration issues.
Phone: +46 708 293197
Scandinavian Advisory Board
Erik Dammann, Norway, founder “Future in our hands,” Oslo
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Norway, professor, University of Oslo
Erni Friholt, Sweden, Peace movement of Orust
Ola Friholt, Sweden, Peace movement of Orust
Lars-Gunnar Liljestrand, Sweden, Chair of the Association of FiB lawyers
Torild Skard, Norway, Ex President of Parliament, Second chamber (Lagtinget)
Sören Sommelius, Sweden, author and culture journalist
Gunnar Westberg, Sweden, Professor, ex Co-President IPPNW (Nobel peace prize 1985)
Jan Öberg, TFF, Sweden, Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research.
International Advisory Board
Richard Falk, USA, Professor (em.) of International law and organization, Princeton University
Dennis Kucinich, USA, ex Member of Congress, campaigned for US President
Mairead Maguire, Northern Ireland, Nobel laureate (1976)
Norman Solomon, USA, Journalist, anti-war activist
David Swanson, USA, Director, World Beyond War
Deceased Board Members
Bruce Kent, United Kingdom, President MAW, Movement for Abolition of War, ex President IPB
Maj-Britt Theorin, Sweden, ex President, International Peace Bureau