He didn't shy away from the fact that he's overseeing two wars while accepting a prize for peace, but he outlined a vision for a more peaceful world, which includes advancing economic opportunity:

It is undoubtedly true that development rarely takes root without security; it is also true that security does not exist where human beings do not have access to enough food, or clean water, or the medicine and shelter they need to survive. It does not exist where children can't aspire to a decent education or a job that supports a family. The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

And that's why helping farmers feed their own people -- or nations educate their children and care for the sick -- is not mere charity.

I hope he follows through on this advice in Afghanistan and Iraq.