cerulean
10-03-2002, 07:53 PM
The choice has been made, but we won't find out for another week. So who do you think it will be this year? Arafat has already gotten his prize in 1994. Annan and the UN won last year. I hope it's not another terrorist or terrorist supporter/apologist.
http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=1850524
The Nobel Peace Prize committee today chose this year's winner of the award it hopes will send the right message to a world still in shock from last year's terrorist attacks and at odds over US plans to attack Iraq.
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Both said any prize to an American would probably be an indirect criticism of current US policies.
"You have to think like a Norwegian," agreed Haakan Wiberg, a senior researcher at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute in Denmark. In a recent survey, about 75% of the Norwegians polled opposed a new war in Iraq.
Other known candidates were the Salvation Army, the Peace Corps, the Rome-based Catholic group Church of Sant'Egidio for peace and humanitarian efforts, the Mission of Mercy humanitarian group for work in Latin America and the SOS Children's Villages aid group.
I think any humanitarian group that is not supporting terrorists would be a reasonable choice in the circumstances, given the lack of actual policymakers who would be good choices. I'm not sure if the groups mentioned above qualify or not.
http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=1850524
The Nobel Peace Prize committee today chose this year's winner of the award it hopes will send the right message to a world still in shock from last year's terrorist attacks and at odds over US plans to attack Iraq.
...
Both said any prize to an American would probably be an indirect criticism of current US policies.
"You have to think like a Norwegian," agreed Haakan Wiberg, a senior researcher at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute in Denmark. In a recent survey, about 75% of the Norwegians polled opposed a new war in Iraq.
Other known candidates were the Salvation Army, the Peace Corps, the Rome-based Catholic group Church of Sant'Egidio for peace and humanitarian efforts, the Mission of Mercy humanitarian group for work in Latin America and the SOS Children's Villages aid group.
I think any humanitarian group that is not supporting terrorists would be a reasonable choice in the circumstances, given the lack of actual policymakers who would be good choices. I'm not sure if the groups mentioned above qualify or not.