Nobel 2020 – Peace
World Food Programme (WFP) has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize this year. A good choice, they have made a differece to millions of people.
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Nobel 2019 – Peace
The Highly political and very dubious Nobel Peace prize for 2019 has been announced. Was it a good choice or a bizarre selection this year?
Nobel Prize 2018 – Peace
If you want to know about this year’s Nobel Peace winner, just jump around my preamble by scrolling down. What does it even mean? Unlike the science based award, the Nobel Peace prize is highly political. Sometimes they get it right, and sometimes very very wrong. Let’s mull over this for a bit. The “Peace” … Read more
2017 Nobel Prize – Peace
If you want to know about this year’s winner, just jump around my preamble by scrolling down. “Peace” is perhaps the joker in the Nobel pack because this is the award that has often resulted in what can be best described as WTF moments. The other awards are worthy of attention because they spotlight work … Read more
2016 Nobel Prize – Peace
I was tempted to skip writing about the Nobel Peace prize. Rather obviously my primary interest has been the three big Nobel Prizes (Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry) that I wrote up earl;lier on in the week. The “Peace” prize however does perhaps deserve some attention, specifically because the entire endeavour is at times (if I may … Read more
2015 Nobel Prize : Peace – #NobelPrize – Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
This is the Nobel Prize where the folks in Sweden hand the baton over to the folks in Norway to select the winner, and it is also where things can often take a sudden left-hand turn into the utterly bizarre or outright absurd, but I would add, not because it is Norway, but rather because … Read more