{"id":200763,"date":"2021-12-06T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=200763"},"modified":"2021-12-05T04:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:28:19","slug":"peace-by-global-disarmament-or-by-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/12\/peace-by-global-disarmament-or-by-press-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace by Global Disarmament or by Press Freedom?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comment on the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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6 Dec 2021 – <\/em>Which is the better road to world peace? This is not for the Norwegian awarders of the Nobel Peace Prize to decide. They are legally bound by Alfred Nobel\u00b4s testament and his choice between two entirely opposite policies. If weapons had been the solution, we would have had peace long ago. Nobel went to the heart of the problem, the goal of\u00a0his testament, much more important today, was to liberate all nations from the yoke of weapons, warriors and war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How can the 2021 prize, for \u201cfreedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia,\u201d<\/em> be the best effort for a disarmed world order in the world today? My 14-year research leaves no doubt that the Norwegian awarders never liked Nobel\u2019s vision of peace and have used the prize to serve their own ideas and interests. The committee has practiced a concept of peace<\/em> without any meaningful limitation and, even worse,\u00a0Nobel\u00a0did not use the word\u00a0peace in his will. Another basic flaw is that they have glorified persons while the task was to promote a political idea, peace by disarmament.<\/p>\n

The sad truth is that Nobel\u00b4s prize failed from the start in 1901. Rather than actively promoting peace by co-operation on global disarmament it has served official Norway\u00b4s belief in military security and trust in an imperial and belligerent superpower. My research, including the committee\u00b4s archives, reveals a systematic repression of the people and ideas Nobel had in mind. A total 114 \u201cchampions of peace\u201d were cheated of their prizes.\u00a0Showing not the least interest in what Nobel\u00b4s prize could achieve in today\u00b4s world, the Nobel committee recently, instead of ending its shabby management, chose to argue ferociously against the idea of disarmament and deliver an intemperate attack on my honesty and competence.<\/p>\n

Nations simply cannot afford to continue war business as usual. The costs of arms races prevent us from addressing numerous very real threats, climate break-down, nuclear arms, poverty, a lasting pandemic, an increasingly fragile food supply. We have to realize that military power games only guarantee eternal insecurity and increased threat of annihilation.<\/p>\n

To negate my criticism the award committee has started to routinely make brazen claims that the prizes are \u201cfirmly anchored\u201d in Nobel\u00b4s will,\u00a0each year\u00a0invoking a random expression in the testament. But what does the 2021 prize for press freedom do for global disarmament? Similarly, with the UN Food Program (2020), Abiy Ahmed (2019), Mukwege\/Murad (2018),\u00a0were\u00a0they\u00a0engaged in global demilitarization? What makes the 2021 prize particularly lamentable is that the most deadly threat against press freedom in the world today is in the military field.<\/p>\n

How could the\u00a0committee fail to help end\u00a0the cruel persecution of Australian journalist Julian Assange for revealing the war crimes of a belligerent superpower?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Norwegian committee is averse to the most obvious and indispensable step to promoting Nobel\u00b4s vision of peace, announcing the world order he actually had in mind and how to achieve it. Without shame it insists on, in unfailing service to Norwegian foreign policy, continuing to ignore the express language on disarmament in the testament. Instead of defending its 120 years of betrayal of its mandate, today\u00b4s committee should start serving Nobel\u00b4s idea of security, justice and prosperity in a demilitarized world.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Shame or Fame: Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize<\/em> –\u00a0Presentation for English and other\u00a0foreign publishers: https:\/\/booksfromnorway.com\/books\/2151-fame-or-shame<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Fredrik S. Heffermehl, cand. jur, LLM NYU, is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> and ex-Vice President of the International Peace Bureau. He is the author of <\/em>The Nobel Peace Prize, What Nobel Really Wanted (Praeger, 2010 – expanded versions in Chinese, Swedish, Finnish,\u00a0Spanish and [2014] Russian). fredpax@online.no<\/a> – http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6 Dec 2021 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee never abided by Nobel\u2019s vision of peace and has used the prize to serve its own ideas and interests. It has practiced a concept of Peace without any meaningful limitation; Nobel did not use the word peace in his will. It has been glorifying individuals whereas the task is to promote a political idea: Peace by Disarmament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[120,550,1074,1846,2496,2717],"class_list":["post-200763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-conflict","tag-corruption","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-nobel-peace-prize-watch","tag-nobel-prizes","tag-nobels-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}