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John Hume, man who won Nobel Prize for work to end violence in Northern Ireland, dead at 83

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The SDLP (Social Democratic Labour Party) party leader John Hume arrives at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Northern Ireland, Monday November 29, 1999. Northern Ireland's rival parties gathered today to form a Protestant-Catholic coalition that will bring together bitter enemies and, for the first time in a troubled generation, wield power in local hands.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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LONDON — The family of politician John Hume, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for work to end violence in his native Northern Ireland, says he has died. He was 83.

The Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume was regarded by many as the principal architect behind the peace agreement.

His party paid tribute to the former leader, saying “we all live in the Ireland he imagined — at peace and free to decide our own destiny.’’

Hume won a breakthrough in Belfast’s political landscape in 1993 by courting Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, in hopes of securing an IRA cease-fire.

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John Hume, man who won Nobel Prize for work to end violence in Northern Ireland, dead at 83

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