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Skybird · 10-11-13, 08:14 AM

If looking at the list of winners (wikipedia,), I need to go back to 1997 to find the last winner (International Campaign to ban Landmines) that could be tolerated if insisting on Nobel's definition of the peace award. Then 1987 Oscar Arias Sanchez maybe, for achieving substantial diplomatic advance in ending mututal military intervention and interfering in Central America. 1978, Sadat for the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, for which he payed with his life.

I stopped looking before 1960.

There are plenty of names and candidates whose presence on that list simply is annoying, and an offence that caricatures the award's meaning. Most names seem to have nothing to do with the peace award's idea at all.

Women's rights, equality of whatever a kind, wanting a better world, ecology, stop planting terror bombs, medical aid, just debating a weapons-free world - all this should not qualify anyone for the Nobel peace award.

10-11-13, 08:14 AM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,666 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	If looking at the list of winners (wikipedia,), I need to go back to 1997 to find the last winner (International Campaign to ban Landmines) that could be tolerated if insisting on Nobel's definition of the peace award. Then 1987 Oscar Arias Sanchez maybe, for achieving substantial diplomatic advance in ending mututal military intervention and interfering in Central America. 1978, Sadat for the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, for which he payed with his life. I stopped looking before 1960. There are plenty of names and candidates whose presence on that list simply is annoying, and an offence that caricatures the award's meaning. Most names seem to have nothing to do with the peace award's idea at all. Women's rights, equality of whatever a kind, wanting a better world, ecology, stop planting terror bombs, medical aid, just debating a weapons-free world - all this should not qualify anyone for the Nobel peace award. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.