Question: FOR HOW LONG DID NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER, INVOLVED IN UNEF ESTABLISHMENT, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA?

The Pearson Medal of Peace is an award given out annually by the United Nations Association in Canada to recognize an individual Canadian's "contribution to international service".  Nominations are made by any Canadian for any Canadian, excluding self-nominations.  The medal was first announced in 1979 and named in honour of Lester B. Pearson, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Canada's fourteenth Prime Minister.  The medal was to be selected by a jury of "eminent Canadians" and awarded by the Governor-General of Canada on United Nations Day, October 24.  After the 2004 medal was awarded to Roméo Dallaire, it was not awarded again until it was revived in 2011 to honour peace activist Ernie Regehr. <SEP> Dawn Engle is the co-founder and executive director of the non-profit organization, the PeaceJam Foundation.  The PeaceJam program was launched in February 1996 by co-founders Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff to provide the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates with a programmatic vehicle to use in working together to teach youth the art of peace.  To date, 14 Nobel Peace Laureates, including the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, President Oscar Arias, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Betty Williams, President José Ramos-Horta, Tawakkol Karman, Sir Joseph Rotblat (Emeritus), Leymah Gbowee, Jody Williams, Kailash Satyarthi, and Shirin Ebadi, serve as members of the PeaceJam Foundation.  To date, over one million young people from 39 countries around the world have participated in the year long, award-winning PeaceJam curricular program.  Engle and her husband Ivan Suvanjieff have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize fifteen times, and they were leading contenders for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.  Engle is the co-director of multiple documentaries, including "PEACEJAM," and co-author of the book, "PeaceJam: A Billion Simple Acts of Peace" that was published by Penguin in 2008.  She has also directed the award-winning documentary films, "Children of the Light," "", "Daughter of the Maya", and "Without A Shot Fired" which are the first four films in PeaceJam's Nobel Legacy Film Series. <SEP>  The force was developed in large measure as a result of efforts by UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning (1957) proposal and effort from Canadian Minister of External Affairs Lester B. Pearson. The first United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was established by United Nations General Assembly to secure an end to the Suez Crisis with resolution 1001 (ES-I) on November 7, 1956.  The General Assembly had approved a plan submitted by the Secretary-General which envisaged the deployment of UNEF on both sides of the armistice line. <SEP> Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis.  He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965.