WikiLeaks, Internet in Record Nobel Peace Field

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

WikiLeaks, Internet in record Nobel Peace field

By Wojciech Moskwa
OSLO | Tue Mar 1, 2011 8:42am EST
(Reuters) - Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the Internet and a Russian human rights activist are among a record 241 nominations for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Tuesday that the 2011 field includes 53 organizations and tops last year's 237 nominees.

Known nominees also include Afghan rights advocate Sima Samar, the European Union, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, Russian rights group Memorial and its founder Svetlana Gannushkina.

"Looking at the long term, we can say interest in the prize is strong and growing along with the number of candidates," Geir Lundestad, a non-voting member of the Nobel panel, told Reuters.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/01/us-norway-nobel-idUSTRE7202ZS20110301

[tcaudilllg]

1. They'd better be prepared to take back Obama's.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. How do people get nominated? I have always wondered.

Can WE send in a nomination, for instance?

[somone]

3. Any congresscritter or community college professor can nominate anybody:

http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/nomination_committee/who-can-nominate/

According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a nomination is considered valid if it is submitted by a person who falls within one of the following categories:
Members of national assemblies and governments of states
Members of international courts
University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes
Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Board members of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1)
Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee

[harmonicon]

5. you're not going to find many community college professors, if any.

I know in the US, just about anyone who teaches at a college or university is colloquially called "professor", but it is in fact a title that only the oldest or most esteemed in the academic community attain (and, yes, all over the world, even in the US).

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended for the Great Forest, no technological development has ever done more

to empower the people's freedom of speech, flow of information and exchange of ideas than the Internet.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[kpete]

6. WikiLeaks, Internet in record Nobel Peace field

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the Internet and a Russian human rights activist are among a record 241 nominations for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Tuesday that the 2011 field includes 53 organizations and tops last year's 237 nominees.

Known nominees also include Afghan rights advocate Sima Samar, the European Union, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, Russian rights group Memorial and its founder Svetlana Gannushkina.

"Looking at the long term, we can say interest in the prize is strong and growing along with the number of candidates," Geir Lundestad, a non-voting member of the Nobel panel, told Reuters.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/01/us-norway-nobel-idUSTRE7202ZS20110301

[cbdo2007]

7. Really the "nomination" isn't all that big of a deal is it?

Can't pretty much anyone who has a sponsor get nominated?

It isn't like the Oscars where they narrow down the field to 5, there are 241 total people/things nominated here.

[bergie321]

8. Who would accept the prize?

If "The Internet" won?

[cbdo2007]

9. The porn industry?

hahahaha