{"id":245684,"date":"2023-10-09T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=245684"},"modified":"2023-10-07T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:00:07","slug":"nobel-peace-prize-2023-is-not-about-nobels-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/nobel-peace-prize-2023-is-not-about-nobels-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Prize 2023 Is Not about Nobel\u2019s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nobel-peace-prize-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-245685 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nobel-peace-prize-logo-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nobel-peace-prize-logo-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nobel-peace-prize-logo.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>6 Oct 2023 &#8211; <\/em>Iranian women&#8217;s rights campaigner, Narges Mohammadi, deserves all the human rights prizes in the world.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>this<\/strong> is what the Nobel PEACE Prize shall reward:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;\u2026 the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This year&#8217;s award reflects none of it. With war and rampant political militarism raging in Europe and Cold War against China, the Committee c\/would not find someone who works for Nobel&#8217;s honourable will.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it again violates that will grossly. One must wonder how far the Committee can continue to deviate from its legal mandate without being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>And again, NATO Norway&#8217;s Prize is totally aligned with US\/NATO interests; implicitly, it endorses Washington&#8217;s harassment of Iran since its regime change in 1953 and its permanent human rights violations by suffocating primary and secondary sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JanOberg-scaled-e1596967349638.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-166625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JanOberg-scaled-e1596967349638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a> Prof. Jan Oberg, Ph.D. is director of the independent <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" ><em>Transnational Foundation for Peace &amp; Future Research-TF<\/em><\/a><em>F in Sweden and a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>. CV: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/jan-oberg\" ><em>https:\/\/transnational.live\/jan-oberg<\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" ><em>https:\/\/transnational.live<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" >transnational.live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Oct 2023 &#8211; This year&#8217;s award again violates Nobel\u2019s Will grossly, totally aligned with US\/NATO interests. One must wonder how far the Committee can continue to deviate from its legal mandate without being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":245685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[1074,2717],"class_list":["post-245684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-nobels-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245684","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=245684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245686,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245684\/revisions\/245686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}