John Hume, the visionary politician who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning the agreement that ended violence in his native Northern Ireland, has died at 83. John Hume (1937 – 2020) was an Irish politician who served as the second Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) from 1979 to 2001.
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He also served as a Member of the European Parliament and a Member of the UK Parliament, as well as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Hume is regarded as one of the architects of the Northern Ireland peace process. He was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble, after the pair helped forge the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.
It helped to end three decades of bloody strife in Northern Ireland between the largely Catholic nationalist community who want to reunify with Ireland and Protestant unionists who want to remain part of Britain.
He was also a recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Martin Luther King Award, the only person to receive the three major peace awards.