# Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 2, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076 "2003-06-02T05:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SirMuffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SirMuffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirMuffinMan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/1 "2003-06-02T05:44:51Z")
Does anyone else here think it’s a little…I don’t know…\WRONG\ that Tony Blair and George Bush Jr. were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? I mean, it’s not like they behaved as true peacemakers would, such as Ghandi. They started a war! Of course, I really should have seen this coming…After all, the awards WERE named after the man who invented dynamite :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/2 "2003-06-02T05:50:29Z")
I certainly do. But keep in mind anybody can be _nominated._ I can’t imagine them winning, especially since the committee actually criticized them when awarding the most recent Prize to Jimmy Carter. ---
**Author:** ![SirMuffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SirMuffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirMuffinMan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/3 "2003-06-02T05:57:30Z")
The world sure is messed up… Rule of thumb: If it has a committee, it’s going to be screwed up ---
**Author:** ![Deadmime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@Deadmime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadmime)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/4 "2003-06-02T05:59:38Z")
Shouldn’t this be in Great Debates? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/5 "2003-06-02T06:04:34Z")
Yes, it should. Or IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![SirMuffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SirMuffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirMuffinMan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/6 "2003-06-02T06:08:27Z")
My apologies, this mistake will not happen again. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/7 "2003-06-02T06:26:39Z")
No harm done. The moderators will take care of it eventually. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/8 "2003-06-02T06:27:03Z")
It made for a charming debate: [Invade a country - get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=183096&highlight=Hitler) ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/9 "2003-06-02T06:30:38Z")
I think they can also be awarded as an incentive to people in a position to bring about peace, hence past winners like Arafat and Kissenger. ---
**Author:** ![SirMuffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SirMuffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirMuffinMan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/10 "2003-06-02T06:41:49Z")
Sheesh, I’m behind with the times, huh? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/11 "2003-06-02T06:58:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Does anyone else here think it’s a little…I don’t know…\WRONG\ that Tony Blair and George Bush Jr. were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? I do not. While it would be nice if every terrible situation had a clean, easy, morally black-and-white, Star Trek-ish solution, the real world often has down and dirty necessities. I look at it like an equation. On one side of the equation, X, has it that Saddam stayed in power. On the other side, Y, has it with the US and UK going in and ousting him. As long as X has the result being a greater level of mayhem and violence misery, I see nothing wrong with the US and UK’s joint action being, ultimately, one that helped the cause of peace. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/12 "2003-06-02T11:45:41Z")
You might be surprised to know that the Nobel Peace Prize is voted on by some country’s parliment (Sweden?). As such, the the recipient is usually chosen for political reasons. And IMO, Bush and Blair are clearly inappropriate choices. People who wage war are, by definition, not peacemakers. ---
**Author:** ![chiefgnome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@chiefgnome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiefgnome)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/13 "2003-06-02T11:56:14Z")
It’s a committee of five people elected by the Norwegian Parliament: [http://www.nobel.no/index.html](http://www.nobel.no/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/179076/14 "2003-06-02T14:49:24Z")
Since this is not a factual question it doesn’t belong in this forum. And since there was a thread about this in GD, I’ll just close this one rather than move it. bibliopahge moderator GQ