In Support of Assange’s Criminal Complaint against Nobel Peace Prize 2025
NOBEL LAUREATES, 22 Dec 2025
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service
21 Dec 2025 – I fully support this great action of Julian Assange that speaks truth to power. Indeed, Nobel’s Will is not for warmaking but for peacemaking. The Nobel Committee is acting illegally by ignoring it.
You cannot read Nobel’s Will (www.nobelwill.com) and not know he was a man of peace laying out a strategy for peacemaking and disarmament. The will stipulates the award to be given to those who work for ‘fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for holding and promoting peace congresses.’
Julian Assange, by filling a criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation over ‘Instrument of War Peace Prize,’ offers hope, if upheld, to save it from warmongers, honoring instead the world’s peacemakers, those who share and work for Nobel’s and Berta von Suttner’s (Lay Down Your Arms) dream of a peaceful, disarmed world.
Thank you, Julian. You speak for humanity and we are humbled and inspired by your courage and truthfulness.
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of Peace People, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book, The Vision of Peace, (edited by John Dear with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from www.wipfandstock.com. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: www.peacepeople.com.
Tags: Assange, Lay Down Your Arms Peace Prize, Mairead Maguire, María Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel's Will, Peacebuilding
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