The Worse Dominique Father (Georges Charles Worse Clement Ghislain) (Dining (more exactly Leffe) the February 10th 1910 - Leuwen the January 30th 1969) Dominicain is a Belgian monk.

Its work in favor of the refugees after the Second world war was worth the to him Nobel Prize of peace in 1958.

Worse in 1932 became Dominican monk, when he pronounced his wishes and is made call “Dominique Pire”. After studies of theology and political sciences, it turned over to the Couvent of Sarte to Huy, Belgium where it began its social engagement with the underprivileged families of the area. During the Second world war, Pire was useful as chaplain of resistance and took an active part in the exfiltration of the combined pilots, for example. It accepted many medals after the war.

In 1949, it started to be interested in the problem of the refugees of war and writes a book about them, Of the Rhine in the Danube with 60,000 D.P. It founded an organization to help these refugees who undertook the sponsorship of families, and, after 1950, built a series of villages in Germany and Austria to help to place itself, refusing to mix social engagement and personal faith, which its hierarchy did not always accept.

After having received the Nobel Prize of peace in 1958, its engagement in favor of peace continued with the creation of the university of peace of which the goal was to train the future leaders of the world to a greater comprehension mutual insurance companies. Convinced later that there could not be peace without éradiquer poverty, he founded Îles of peace, an ONG devoted in support of the rural populations in the countries in the process of development. Of alive sound, projects were initiated with the Bangladesh and in India.

It is deceased post-operative complications.

More than thirty years after its death, the four organizations which it founded are still active.

Organizations rested by Worse Dominique

• Family Support service: work for the reintegration of the families and people in social unhooking.

• Assistance with the Displaced persons: is active in the field of the reception of the refugees in Belgium and in the sponsorship of children in the countries in the process of development.
• University of Peace: is specialized in the positive management of the conflicts, the family, the district and work.
• Islands of Peace: supports the initiatives of long-term development of rural populations of the Burkina Faso, Bénin, Mali, of Guinea-Bissau, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru.

References

• Information of the Nobel Committee on Worse

• its biography seen of Leffe