{"id":69495,"date":"2016-02-09T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69495"},"modified":"2016-02-09T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:40:59","slug":"the-list-of-true-nobel-candidates-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/the-list-of-true-nobel-candidates-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The List of True Nobel Candidates 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Letter Feb 2, 2016 to the Nobel Committee:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nobel-peace-logo.png\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-66603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-66603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nobel-peace-logo.png\" alt=\"nobel peace logo\" width=\"340\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>QUALIFIED CANDIDATES &#8211; THE 2016 NOBEL FOR THE CHAMPIONS OF PEACE<\/p>\n<p>Dear Kaci Kullmann Five, Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland, Berit Reiss-Andersen, Henrik Syse, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, members of the committee,<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Peace Prize Watch has the pleasure of submitting to you our short list of candidates actually qualified for the 2016 Nobel \u201cprize for the champions of peace.\u201d The list is based on an analysis of the purpose Nobel actually had in mind and on actual nominations, published below, not mere speculations. The list has been prepared as part of the NPPW\u00b4s continuing effort to realize the specific peace idea Nobel had in mind, by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>assisting the peace prize awarders and the nominators,<\/li>\n<li>informing the general public,<\/li>\n<li>encouraging all concerned to see and home in on the peace plan Nobel referred to in his will.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please find our list of qualified candidates here: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7\" >http:\/\/nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full letter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/Nobelkomiteen_160202_NPP_Watch_list.pdf\" >HERE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Nobel Peace Prize Watch guidelines for screening nominations,<\/em><em> see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#guidelines\" >HERE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"maintext\">THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WATCH GUIDELINES for screening nominations qualified to win the Nobel \u201cprize for the champions of peace\u201d:<\/p>\n<p class=\"maintext\">While others, the committee, parliamentarians, peace researchers, even peace people base<br \/>\ntheir views on a VERY wide understanding of \u00abpeace\u00bb (= they use the prize as they like) the<br \/>\nNPPW list is based on studies of what counts under the law, what Nobel actually wanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"maintext\">The best, most direct, access to Nobel\u00b4s own understanding of the \u201cchampions of peace\u201d he<br \/>\ndescribed in his will lies in his correspondence with Bertha von Suttner, the leading peace<br \/>\nprotagonist of the period. The letters deal with breaking the arms race-driving logic of the old<br \/>\nsaying: \u201cIf you wish peace, prepare for war\u201d and how to make countries agree on this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"maintext\">Thus the purpose of Nobel &#8211; to liberate all nations from weapons, warriors and wars \u2013 has<br \/>\nbeen decisive in our screening. The prize is primarily meant to prevent wars, not resolve old<br \/>\nconflicts. It is not a prize for good deeds, but for a basic reform of international relations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"maintext\">Candidates that work for global co-operation on international law and disarmament directly<br \/>\nare the primary winners \u2013 but also important work that indirectly serves to illustrate the<br \/>\nimperative need for international demilitarization should be considered. But to deserve<br \/>\nthe Nobel prize activities should point beyond resolution of local situations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"maintext\">At the time of Nobel many statesmen listened to the voices for peace and disarmament,<br \/>\ntoday very few officials and politicians hold the peace view that Nobel wished to support. In<br \/>\nour view the prize must keep up with the times and in today\u00b4s world belongs mainly to the<br \/>\ngrassroots, civil society, that contest the official culture of violence, not to leaders who just<br \/>\nrespond to political processes as they are supposed to in a democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"maintext\"><strong>&#8220;I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace<br \/>\nthan our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of<br \/>\nthese days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.&#8221; US<br \/>\nPresident Dwight D. Eisenhower 1959<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"maintext\">Alfred Nobel would have liked to see his committee think along the same lines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIST \u2013 QUALIFIED CANDIDATES FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2016:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#hidankyo\" >Article 9<\/a>, Japan<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#bolkovac\" >Bolkovac, Kathryn<\/a>, USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#bryn\" >Bryn, Steinar<\/a>, Norway<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#debrum\" >Tony de Brum and the (Marshall Islands) legal team<\/a>, Republic of the Marshall Islands<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#ellsberg\" >Ellsberg, Daniel,<\/a> USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#falk\" >Falk, Richard<\/a>, USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#ferencz\" >Ferencz, Benjamin<\/a>, USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#galtung\" >Galtung, Johan<\/a>, Norway<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#weiss\" >IALANA<\/a>, International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear War, Berlin, New York, Colombo (Sri Lanka)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#johnson\" >Johnson, Rebecca<\/a>, UK<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#weiss\" >Juristen und Juristinnen gegen atomare, biologische ung chemische Waffen<\/a>, Berlin<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#joya\" >Malalai Joya<\/a>, Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#krieger\" >David Krieger<\/a>, USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#lindner\" >Lindner, Evelin<\/a>, main basis Norway<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#mayor\" >Federico Mayor and the culture of peace initiative<\/a>, Spain<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#hidankyo\" >Hidankyo, Nihon<\/a> Japan<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#krieger\" >Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/a>, NAPF, USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#oberg\" >Oberg, Jan<\/a>, Sweden<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#ferencz\" >Pace, Bill<\/a>, USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#pnnd\" >Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#rbolkovac\" >Roy, Arundhati<\/a>, India<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#bolkovac\" >Snowden, Edward<\/a>, USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#swanson\" >Swanson, David,<\/a> USA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#weiss\" >Weiss, Peter<\/a>, New York<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7#wilpf\" >Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom<\/a> (WILPF)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.org\/index.html?tab=7\" >To see all candidates&#8217; credentials, Go to Original \u2013 nobelwill.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter Feb. 2, 2016 to the Nobel Committee &#8211; LIST OF QUALIFIED CANDIDATES FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobel-laureates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69495","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=69495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}