Martti Ahtisaari, Finland's former president and a global peace broker who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to resolve international conflicts, has died. The foundation he created said it was “deeply saddened by the loss of its founder.” He was 86 and had Alzheimer’s disease. Ahtisaari helped reach peace accords related to Serbia’s withdrawal from Kosovo in the late 1990s, Namibia’s bid for independence in the 1980s, and autonomy for Aceh province in Indonesia in 2005. The Nobel committee cited "his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.”
