The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
guess we are at war with planet earth now.
Nobel died in 1896 and did not leave an explanation for choosing peace as a prize category. The categories for chemistry and physics were obvious choices as he was a trained chemical engineer. The reason behind the peace prize is less clear. Some[attribution needed] have said it was Nobel's way to compensate for developing destructive forces (Nobel's inventions included dynamite and ballistite
feeling bad alfred?
Alfred Nobel never explained[3] why he wanted a Norwegian rather than Swedish body to award the Peace Prize.
well classic finn could be the explanation.
that Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939 by Erik Brandt, a member of the Swedish Parliament. Brandt retracted the nomination after a few days.[6] Other infamous nominees included Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini.
well,remember dont judge a book by its cover.
For example, the awards given to Theodore Roosevelt, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, Lê Ðức Thọ and Henry Kissinger were particularly controversial and criticized; the Kissinger-Thọ award prompted two dissenting Committee members to resign.[7]
war criminals ?
A widely discussed criticism of the peace-prize are the notable omissions, namely the failure to award individuals with widely recognized contributions to peace. The list includes Mahatma Gandhi, Pope John XXIII, Pope John Paul II, Steve Biko, Raphael Lemkin, Herbert Hoover, César Chávez, Jose Figueres Ferrer, and Oscar Romero. In particular, the omission of the Indian leader Gandhi
maybe it's all arrange after all?
theres a real nobel man, spent 27 yr in jail, still smiling, even had to share his prize, not many like him on the list...
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