THE E.U WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: OR THE DEATH OF A GREAT INSTITUTION

Le 19 octobre 2012 par Correspondance particulière - Each year, since its inception in 1991, the announcement of the winner’s name and his/her country attract

many people who want to be the first ones to have the news. But, this institution this yearly nomination for peace does goes with criticism across the globe. The designation of the winner by the Norwegian Committee does not always go quietly. Some critiques believe that the nomination is just a political based one. With the European Union’s winning this year, the image of the Nobel peace Prize is not getting better.

Criticisms about the nomination of the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has become politically orientated have increased following this year’s winning by the E.U. The main criteria that can land a person or an organization the Nobel Peace Prize is obviously the maintaining or fight for peace. Does the E.U rightly deserve this year Prize? Many people agree. On the other hand, critiques believe that the Prize has been travestied. And, this situation is not helped by Greece, Portugal and Spain whose economies in the Euro zone are going down like a plane shot in the air. But, supporters of the fact that the E.U won the Prize said that peace, as the Norwegian Committee stressed, was the main key that gave the medal to the E.U.
We do not disagree with the Norwegian Committee’s choice as we did when the same Committee chose President Obama as winner in 2009. That year, the Nobel Peace Prize was offered to the then newly elect American president as a welcome sweet in the White House. How many troops did President Obama send to Afghanistan after receiving the Prize? 30,000 troops were sent on the grounds that “our security is at stake” after promising during his campaign that in 18 months, he would bring “the boys home”. Further, he justified his decision as follows: “we must deny al-Qaida a safe haven” (Obama in Huff Post, Politics October 17, 2012). The question here is: was Mr Obama misleading the electorate, was he acting as a novice or simply an ignorant? The point is, after his triumph against the Republican McCain and his warmth welcome by the Nobel Peace Committee, he went on to killed thousands of innocent people across the world. It seems that winning the Prize gave him the momentum to spread his killing machines around the globe. Libya, the Ivory Coast, Egypt, Syria. With Obama’s foreign policies, the gap (if that has ever existed) between the Republicans and the Democrats has become non-existent. Mr Obama is the steak used by the American system to cash more grounds in Africa while on the other hand America is playing double standard in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. If possible, the Nobel Peace Prize should be withdrawn from President Obama.
As for the E.U, it is ridiculous to accept this Prize when it is widely and openly known that France and Britain are among the biggest arms sellers that are undermining peace across the globe. The crusade for democracy engaged by the E.U is just an excuse to implement its own goals. For, we believe that to free someone from dictatorship does not exclude the fact that the “good Samaritan” has to listen to the oppressed. The way the E.U is “giving” freedom to people around the world is just a new form of domination and masked twenty-first slavery. The E.U is involved in the destabilization of all the countries mentioned above. Openly, France has admitted helping the rebels in Syria. Britain does not hide its support to the rebels either.
Elsewhere, it is very sad to note that the definition of the words we use changes according to the desires of the world powerful countries. On another planet, a rebel is a public enemy and he will remain so until he is arrested. But, these days, if you want to get the world powerful countries to cover your crimes and to financially support you, just declare yourself a “rebel” and you will be nourished and protected. You will also get the publicity you need to play the “game of the victim” from their media.

With these two examples (Obama and the E.U; there others controversies), the Nobel Peace Prize has become a sweet sold in Norway by some five shopkeepers who seem to be overwhelmed by what is going on around them. The Committee as they are grossly called has no sense of the real world. If these people need help, why not seek it? Our advice is to ask questions around the world. They have the means to do so. They could take surveys, ask journalists, politician, merchants, farmers, shopkeepers (not like the five in Norway) and any persons who follows world current affairs. This is how, the Nobel Peace Prize that has lost its seriousness and respect, would become a great institution again.
Finally, we believe that this year overall winner is the WikiLeaks founder: Julian Assange.

Sylvain De Bogou
Writer, Journalist and political analyst.