Who do you favour for the Nobel peace prize this year?

Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
edited October 2016 in Off Topic Chat
This Friday the winner of the Nobel peace price is announced. Who do you want to win?

In my opinion the Columbian peace process would be a good candidate if the treaty had been accepted in the recent referendum.

For some years I have championed Edward Snowden. I think he is a very strong candidate, but he is wanted in the US and we have an extradiction treaty with the USA. Recently Snowden won a less prestigous prize here in Norway, and his right to visit our country without getting arrested and sent to the US was tested in the court. Sadly the court decided the police would have to arrest him.

The Syrian White Helmets, volunteer rescue organisation, is an intersting candidate. So are the people of the Greek island Lesbos who have made a great effort to save refugees.
Angela Merkel is also a candidate because of the refugee crisis, but a far more controversial one IMO.

Other candidates are Pope Francis, the movement to preserve the law that forbids Japan to deploy military forces abroad, Denis Mukwege who works against sexualized violence against women in war etc.


What do you think?

Comments

  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Don't know if they'll get it but I'd love to see The white Helmets get some recognition.

    "Comprised of regular citizens, the Syrian Civil Defense, or "White Helmets," are a team of volunteer emergency workers who risk their lives to pull civilians trapped in the rubble of buildings targeted by bombs in Syria's five-year civil war. The network of about 3,000 volunteers has saved about 60,000 lives, according to the group"
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    The White Helmets is agood candidate. I hope it won't be the Pope. It would have been a "what famous and powerful person do we want to visit Norway and shake hands with us"- winner, Obama style.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I have read one report which says Donald Trump has made the list of contenders ! :o
    I also think the Pope would not be a good choice.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    I think we can disregard Trump as a serious candidate :))
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Nadia Murad would be very deserving as a way of highlighting the terror that ISIS inflicts on women.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-forced-us-to-pray-then-raped-us-yazidi-survivor-nadia-murad-describes-life-as-a-sex-slave-in-a6792676.html

    Addressing students at Cairo University this week, she reportedly revealed that Isis militants “used to force captives to pray and then rape us”.

    “We were not worth the value of animals. They raped girls in groups. They did what a mind could not imagine,” she said.

    During her visit to Egypt, Ms Murad met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. She tweeted that she was “asking the Islamic world to stand firmly and clearly against Isis”. “They commit rape and genocide crimes in the name of Islam,” she said.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    Murad was actually captured and held prisoner by ISIS in 2014. I agree she is a wonderful candidate and I would like to see her share the prize with doctor Denis Mukwege who works on the same issues in sub-Saharan Africa. Sexualized violence against women in war has been ignored for too long.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Agreed, I think it's a cause, which should be highlighted.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • OrnithologistOrnithologist BerlinPosts: 583MI6 Agent
    Anybody so long as it's not Merkel.
    "I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman. "
    "- That is something to be afraid of."
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    I'm voting for you number24
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Although..... He did start all that trouble between Australia and New Zealand :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    :)) i forgot about that
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    Oh .... modesty forbids me ;%
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    But that's what makes you perfect for it 24 :)
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    I know .......... :))
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    :))
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    I would like to congratulate President Juan Manuel Santos for the Nobel Peace Prize. :007)
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Congratulations to him, I hope he can achieve peace in his country. -{

    There's always next year Number24, so keep your hopes up. ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    I was hoping the white helmets would win it but a worthy winner non the less.
    I think 24 needs a sabbatical to the southern hemisphere to see for himself just how far new Zealand is from Australia ;)
    Then he will be complete.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,417Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    I would like to congratulate President Juan Manuel Santos for the Nobel Peace Prize. :007)

    Hasn't he won the award even though the ceasefire has collapsed ?
    YNWA 97
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    I would like to congratulate President Juan Manuel Santos for the Nobel Peace Prize. :007)

    Hasn't he won the award even though the ceasefire has collapsed ?

    Well, the population didn't vote by majority for his peace deal in the recent referendum as they felt it was too soft on the FARC rebels who have killed so many people there.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    I would like to congratulate President Juan Manuel Santos for the Nobel Peace Prize. :007)

    Hasn't he won the award even though the ceasefire has collapsed ?

    The ceasefire has not collapsed. There was a referendum on the peace treaty, but a small majority said no to it. Both parties in the conflict agreed at once to continue negotiating in order to find a solution to the problems with the first version of the treaty. They also agreed to continue the ceasefire. I think this is impressive if you keep in mind that this is a 50 year old war.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    I would like to congratulate President Juan Manuel Santos for the Nobel Peace Prize. :007)

    Hasn't he won the award even though the ceasefire has collapsed ?

    The ceasefire has not collapsed. There was a referendum on the peace treaty, but a small majority said no to it. Both parties in the conflict agreed at once to continue negotiating in order to find a solution to the problems with the first version of the treaty. They also agreed to continue the ceasefire. I think this is impressive if you keep in mind that this is a 50 year old war.

    Indeed it is, no mean feat. There will doubtless be comparisons with the Northern Ireland Belfast Agreement of 1998, commonly called the Good Friday Agreement. Ironic as the IRA trained the FARC rebels and were caught there in August 2001.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia_Three
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Fair play on him for trying -{
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    What do you ting of the Swedes giving Bob Dylan the Noble prize for litterature?
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    Are song lyrics literature? I thought they would be more art. He does have a wonderful body of work.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    edited October 2016
    It's controversial and Dylan himself hasn't commented yet. I would rater see noe of the great American novelists such av Cormack McCartey or John Irving win.
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    I pretty sure there must be more deserved literary works
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
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