Quakers are gearing up to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their award of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Famous Irish peace activist Mairead Maguire has been hit with a rubber bullet fired by the Israeli military at a non-violent protest Ramallah on the West Bank.

South African Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says it is distressing that Israel blocked a planned mission by him and British professor Christine Chinkin to investigate the killing of 19 Palestinian civilians by Israeli shells - writes Peter Kenny for Ecumenical News International.

Peace scholar and journalist Scott A. Hunt has predicted that this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize will be U2 frontman and debt relief activist Bono (Paul David Hewson).