Who do you favour for the Nobel peace prize this year?
Number24
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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?
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?
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"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 also think the Pope would not be a good choice.
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.
"- That is something to be afraid of."
There's always next year Number24, so keep your hopes up.
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.
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 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