Peace Prize

For many, many years now the Nobel Prize has been aworded to people that have managed to create something big or dared to be different.

Nobel was Swedish and almost all of his prizes has been recieved in Sweden yet one has been given out in Norway (expect for the Peace Prize…

.Now there’s this debate about allowing the Swedish board to pick the winner for the Peace Prize as well. Some experts say that those who so far has been aworded the Peace Prize wouldn’t have been given it and that it doesn’t correspond to Nobel’s thinking.

Belov a minor selection of previous Peace Prize winners:

1. Tawakel Yarman, Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2011)
2. Liu Xiaobo(2010)
3. Barack Obama (2009)
4. Al Gore, International Committe on Climate Change (2007)
5. Shirin Ebadi (2003)
6. Jimmy Carter (2002)
7. Kofi Annan, United Nations (2001)
8. Kim Dae Jung (2000)
9. International Campain to ban landmines (1996)
10. Yasser Arafat (1994)
11. Nelson Mandela (1993)
12. Aung San Suu Kiu (1991)
13. Mikhail Gorbachev (1990)
14. 14th Dalai Lama (1989)
15. Alva Myrdal (1982)
16. Mother Theresa (1979)
17. Betty Williams (1976)
18. Henry Kissinger (1973)
19. Willy Brandt (1971)
20. Martin Luther King Jr (1964)
21. Dag Hammarsköld (1961)
22. Hjalmar Branting (1921)
23. Woodrow Wilson (1919)
24. Henri La Fontaine (1913)

For a complete list : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates

Maybe I’m not the one to judge but do think that all of them really deserved the prize ? And would it really be better if the Swedish Nobel Committee did the nomination instead of Norway ?