Who are your nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize?

[nerdgirl 0]

Not sure if Lawrocket was recommended for Nobel or just for write-in President, but who would you consider viable candidates?

My candidates are mostly future ones:

To start, I’d recommend Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar for the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. My bet is that they’re short-listed and will get the award after Lugar leaves the Senate.

The Director General of the OPCW (http://www.opcw.org/) when the world’s declared stockpiles of chemical weapons are finally eliminated, probably around 2025.

When/if Iraq becomes a stable democratic state, the elected Iraqi leader and up to two heads of supporting states. If the Biden-Brownback federalization plan works, they may be candidates.

If OIF had gone as hoped, President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and the first post-Hussayn democratically elected leader very likely would have been short list candidates (regardless of the presence or lack of “WMD.”)

Who else?

VR/Marg

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
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[shropshire 0]

Bush & Blair ... BwwwwwwaaaaaaaaH - No chance. It's a peace prize not a Piece of the planet all for me prize.

I can't actually think of anyone deserving of the prize at the moment. It's not as if peace has broken out anywhere recently

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Lefty 0]

Not Al Gore.

Provoking a reaction isn't the same thing as saying something meaningful.
-Calvin

[shropshire 0]

maybe it would be easier if we had a "Not Peace" prize - way more candidates too.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[lawrocket 3]

How about Stephen Lewis, who heads his foundation to prevent the spread of AIDS in subsaharan Africa? He was recently the UN AIDS Envoy, and did an admirable job with it.

See, The Stephen LEwis Foundation does things like fundraise to support orphans in Africa, from helping with school funds to feeding and clothing them. There is nothing disingenuous about the guy that I can see.

Or what about PeaceJam? http://www.peacejam.org/ These are people who get Nobel Peace Laureates to meet with children and educate them on public charitable deeds, and help them perform a public work.

THESE are the sorts of people who are deserving and do not seem to get the right attention. Stephen Lewis does not have a well-oiled media machine. And Peace Jam merely organizes, not taking enough credit for itself.

There are numerous others in the past who should be so honored.

Or, for an EXTREMELY UNPOPULAR CHOICE, how about the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?" With some kudos to Warren Buffett? This organization has done some truly amazing things for quality of life in the Third World. It alone acounts for 1/5 of the world budget for eradicationof polio.

How's THAT for deserving? But since it's Bill Gates, oh no. Can't have that.

p.s. - whay would I support a Democratic Party Lackey like Gates or Buffett? Could it be because they are doing the right thing and not just SAYING the right thing?

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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How about Stephen Lewis, who heads his foundation to prevent the spread of AIDS in subsaharan Africa? He was recently the UN AIDS Envoy, and did an admirable job with it.



Or what about PeaceJam? http://www.peacejam.org/ These are people who get Nobel Peace Laureates to meet with children and educate them on public charitable deeds, and help them perform a public work.



how about the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?" With some kudos to Warren Buffett? This organization has done some truly amazing things for quality of life in the Third World. It alone acounts for 1/5 of the world budget for eradicationof polio.

Those are all viable candidates.

There have been a number of recipients who have been small, citizen-organized efforts, e.g., last year's recipients, Muhammed Yunas & the Grumman Bank; also Jody Williams & Campaign to Ban Landmines; Joseph Rotblat & Pugwash Science and Intl Affairs; Wangari Maathi; Herb Abrams & Intl Physicians Against Nuclear War; and the YMCA.

VR/Marg

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
Tibetan Buddhist saying

[nerdgirl 0]

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maybe it would be easier if we had a "Not Peace" prize - way more candidates too.

Not quite the same thing as what you're suggesting, but there have been a number of years in which the committee did not award the prize, notably during most of WWI & WWII.

VR/Marg

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
Tibetan Buddhist saying

[shropshire 0]

Your idea would have been a better option this year and certainly betyter than my lame attempt - Ta.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome