President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, given him shortly after his inauguration in the hope of what he will do to curb the world’s drive to destruction. Elected in large part because of the vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. and on the hopes of the American peace movement, the president acknowledges his debts, but also his duties as chief of state. Is there still such a thing as “just” war? Is the just war even a useful theory in today’s world? Is nonviolence truly useless against the Hitlers of the world? Recent history suggests not. How will these tensions play themselves out in Obama, his career and in the course of American politics and culture? What fruits will this tree bear? Stay tuned.