Nobel Peace Prize split between three women

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.

They were recognised for their "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work".

Mrs Sirleaf is Africa's first female elected head of state, Ms Gbowee is a peace activist and Ms Karman is a leading figure in Yemen's pro-democracy movement.

Announcing the prize in Oslo, Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said: "We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women achieve the same opportunities as men to influence developements at all levels of society."

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15211861

[DonCoquixote]

1. Sadly

all of them are better than the last winner.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. So you didn't like Liu Xiaobo?

If your comment was meant as a slam to President Obama, please at least get your facts straight.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/

Considering that the temperature between the US and Russia had deliberately been ratcheted up to near explosion point by the abysmally horrible Bush II Administration, surprisingly not so much by its illegal war in Iraq and its problematic war in Afghanistan, but more by its insistance on installing weapons systems in Poland and Czech Republic, along with some of the former SSRs, and that all of those plans were thwarted by President Obama, it's no wonder that the Scandinavian countries (Norway among them) appreciated that ratcheting down. They're all geographically a lot closer to the nuclear actions that could very probably have resulted than we were and had been getting very nervous.

The 2009 Nobel was in major part in recognition of Obama's efforts in that area - and those cannot be denied, much as some still would like to.

[Beacool]

8. I think that you meant the one prior to the last one.

Last year's winner was Liu Xiaobo.

;-)

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

2. I don't see how any of them were qualified...

I mean, to even get nominated don't you have to be spearheading and expanding 2 neverending wars/occupations of other countries while simultaneously enabling class warfare in your own nation?

The nobel prize really dropped the ball this time.

[No Elephants]

3. Tsk, tsk. "Between" two; "among" three or more

[Gore1FL]

4. That's every Nobel's Peace Prize's fantasy. n/t

[marasinghe]

12. nice. \~/

[Overseas]

5. K&R.

[brooklynite]

6. So, Rush Limbaugh has been passed over again?

[Beacool]

9. Congratulations to these ladies.

Well deserved win!!!

:applause:

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kudos to these women.

Thanks for the thread, dipsydoodle.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. K&R and congrats to these freedom fighters

Finally bringing a transition in Liberia from a nightmare to some sort of stability.... and for trying to transition Yemen, a country that still has a long way to go, but has potential to get there one day.

[AverageJoe90]

13. Agreed.

Especially to Liberia's President Sirleaf. =)

[Lars77]

14. Occupy wall st next year?