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What the Nobel Peace Prize Truly ValuesBy Peter Faulk (October, 2016)Should the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded every year,only be given for actually achieving peace, or is
it enough to be recognized for the courageous attempt to achieve peace, but fall short? Both kinds of contributions to a peaceful world are consistent with the wishes
of Alfred Nobel,the man for which the award was originally namedover 100 years ago. Unfortunately, the decision to award the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize to President Juan
Manuel Santos of Columbia for a failed peace dealdoes not live up to the true valueandintent of this most prestigious of world prizes.The Norwegian Nobel
Committee,which awards the peace prize, insisted that the 2016 peace prize be given to President Santos of the troubled country of Colombiain South Americabecause he
tried so hard to achieve peace, even though he ultimately failed. He successfully negotiated a peace deal between the government and rebelswho have been fighting for
decades. He then asked the country to vote in a referendum to approvethe deal. To the surpriseof many, the people of Columbia voted against the negotiated peace deal.
Fighting may re-start, but President Santos hopes to try for peace again. It remains to be seen whether those efforts will succeed.Nonetheless,Thorbjorn Jagland,
chairman ofthe Norwegian Nobel Committee observed that since there is so little actual peace in the worldtoday, “we have to award those who are trying.”This is not the
first timethe Nobel selection committee has missed the mark. They haveundervalued ourunderstanding of peace beyond what Nobel originally had in mind by honoring, for
example, human rights and environmental activists whose actions,however admirable,are not easily linked to “peace” (e.g.Shirin Ebadi in 2003, Lech Walesa in 1983 and
Al Gore in 2007).It’s even worse when the award is awarded prematurely(too early), as with President Barack Obama in 2009. He was elected in 2008 and hadn’t
achievedanything yet. Obama’s Prague speech, given prior to his Nobel Prize, inspired many by sharinghis vision of a world without nuclear weapons. In retrospect, the
Nobel Committee was indulging in wishful thinking. Obama, although moderate in many respects, escalated the American militaryinvolvement in Afghanistan just weeks
after receiving the award, and worse, never really used the eight years of his presidency to push forward the visionhe outlined in his Prague speech.In fact, some may
argue, the world began to get a little more unstable during his presidency.Finally, awarding the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize to President Santos is questionable for other
reasons. For one thing, Santos served as Defense Minister under Alvaro Uribe, who had previously orderedSantos to conduct a vicious military campaignagainst the
rebels. He was accused by some for going too far. Furthermore, unlike prior Nobel awards for peacemaking efforts (U.S./Vietnam, Israel/Egypt,Israel/P.L.O.), the
representative for the rebelsin negotiations, the rebel leader RonrigoLondono, was not a co-winneror even mentioned in the award ceremony.Shouldn’t both sides of a
peace deal be rewarded?What emerges from these arguments isthe importance of clarity in who is eligible to win such a prestigious award. This is especially necessary
when the actual achievement of peace does not happen, but we celebrate the partial achievements of those who,through good or bad actions,attempted but failed to win
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