Citizen Dialogue

On Friday, at 10pm GMT the winner of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo, Norway. I will be following the presentation and will publish my views on it Friday by noon GMT. Some peace groups have been critical of the committee that they are choosing laureates that are not specifically working for peace. I don´t agree and believe that Professor Yunus or Al Gore are working for peace and security their ways.

But if the Nobel Committee are listening to the criticism and are choosing some of the people working for peace this year, I think the prize will go to the people behind the peace deal in Kenya or Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. If they choose to continue to choose people not directly linked to peace work it´s a whole other story.

The last ten years, the laureates have been:

2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Al Gore

2006
Muhammad Yunus
Grameen Bank

2005
International Atomic Energy Agency
Mohamed ElBaradei

2004
Wangari Maathai

2003
Shirin Ebadi

2002
Jimmy Carter

2001
United Nations
Kofi Annan

2000
Kim Dae Jung

1999
Médecins Sans Frontières

1998
John Hume
David Trimble