The Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire has pulled out of an upcoming gathering of Nobel winners in Chicago over the involvement of the State Department. Maguire, a 1976 Nobel winner for her peacemaking efforts in Northern Ireland, says she will not attend the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates: “I have, as a Nobel Peace Laureate, (and in the spirit of Alfred Nobel) often called for disbandment of NATO, end of militarism and war, and for disarmament and demilitarization. I cannot therefore, in good conscience, be part of a partnership with the U.S. state government.”