Nobel Peace Prize: A Mistake

Nobel Peace Prize was a mistake

After announcing the Nobel Peace Prize is 2009, many from both The United States and around the world believed that the award was not deserved. The issue has come up again after statements made by the former director of the Nobel Institute, Geil Lundestad. From The Washington Times:The former director of Norway’s Nobel Institute revealed this week that he regrets the committee’s decision to give the 2009 Nobel Peace award to President Obama.Geil Lundestad, director at the institute for 25 years, said in his just-published memoir that he and the committee had unanimously decided to grant the award to Mr. Obama just after his election in 2009 more in hopes of aiding the American president to achieve his goals on nuclear disarmament, rather than in recognition of what Mr. Obama had already accomplished.

Looking back over Mr. Obama’s presidency, Mr. Lundestad said, granting him the award did not fulfill the committee’s expectations.“[We] thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn’t have this effect,” he told the Associated Press in an interview.The award so early in his term appeared to take the Obama White House by surprise, and Mr. Lundestad said U.S. officials privately asked if a Nobel Prize-winner had ever skipped the awards ceremony.See the rest from The Washington Post.[mwi-cat-listing cat="94" ppp="4" cols="4" desc="false" type="view" btn_color="black" ]