Record 241 nominations for Nobel Peace Prize

[The Straight Story]

OSLO, Norway — A record 241 nominations were submitted for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Norwegian jury has now begun the secretive process to select a winner, the panel's spokesman said Tuesday.

Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina, secret-spilling organization WikiLeaks and Cuban dissidents are among the candidates who have been publicly announced by those who nominated them.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee does not reveal the names of nominees and doesn't discuss any candidates until the winner is announced in October.

Geir Lundestad, the permanent secretary of the committee, told The Associated Press that 188 individuals and 53 organizations have been nominated for the prestigious award.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41843722

[rfranklin]

1. Easy to get nominated...wasn't Bush Jr. nominated?

I think you just have to pay a nominal fee.

[The Straight Story]

2. bush should have got it, he helped many people to rest in peace

;)

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. Not quite that simple...

...but not very hard.

Any parliamentarian -- MP, senator -- most professors of law, history, etc, can nominate.

The Nobel Committee sends out invitation letters to individuals qualified to nominate – members of national assemblies, governments, and international courts of law; university chancellors, professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology; leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs; previous Nobel Peace Prize Laureates; board members of organizations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize; present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; and former advisers of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Rush on the list again?