Nope you don't win the Nobel Peace Prize on ideas only. You actually have to achieve the ideals of peace, not just the idea of it. So you think Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize? So what did he really do to instill peace in this nation and even around the world to gain that high degree of recognition for peace?
Jim
Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin
Peace is fleeting. It's here one minute and gone the next. How long, exactly, does this peace have to last in order for it to count? And you're not really right about why you win it either. This is why you win it. And why did Obama win it? I think a lot of people in the US and around the world had a real sense of change when he was elected. Sadly, he was a politician like all the rest, but at least we had it for a moment.
The goal of the Nobel Peace Prize is to award people who "have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Oftentimes, the
winners are people who have not completed their work toward peace, but who are at a critical juncture in their work and who need the support that winning the Nobel Peace Prize brings