Anthony Ganzer recalls his experience in Oslo as a guest journalist through a Robert Bosch Stiftung fellowship, and provides his own story after witnessing President Barack Obama's acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. Ganzer was also tasked with explaining to locals why Obama deserved such a prestigious award. He notes that, while engaged in wars at home, Obama used his speech to justify the use of force in the pursuit of peace.
The 2008 Burns and Kennan Award winners focus on the hopes of the African-American civil rights movement with Barack Obama's historic election; on Germany's struggle with releasing Stasi police secrets; and on an American identity crisis displayed in its new embassy building in Berlin.
