[E-rundbrief] Info 1162 - EU-Peace-nobelprice - IPB-protest-letter

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1162 - Tomas Magnusson (International Peace Bureau/ 
IPB): Why Isn’t the Nobel Peace Prize For the Champions of Peace?

Bad Ischl, 7.12.2012

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Why Isn’t the Nobel Peace Prize For the Champions of Peace?

Tomas Magnusson (International Peace Bureau/ IPB)

Göteborg, 5 December 2012 (IPS)

(Extract)

Leaders of the European Union (EU) will gather in Oslo this Monday to 
receive an increasingly controversial Nobel Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel, 
the Swedish inventor and industrialist, established the five prizes by 
his will in 1895 and there is a growing international awareness that 
his prize “for the champions of peace” does not go to the recipients 
Nobel had in mind.

There is, of course, always an element of peacemaking in people and 
nations getting together, talking, and making agreements, but nowhere 
has the EU declared a political ambition to promote the global peace 
order of demilitarised nations that Nobel described with unmistakable 
clarity in his will. Quite to the contrary, the EU has a multitude of 
programmes for development of arms and armies, a defence agency, 
battle groups and arms production and trade.

  In the last weeks of November four laureates ­ the International 
Peace Bureau (IPB, the 1910 laureate), Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire 
and Adolfo Perez Esquivel, protested against the EU prize as unlawful, 
and the IPB demanded an intervention from the Swedish authorities...

Tomas Magnusson is co-president of the International Peace Bureau.

http://www.ipb.org/web/index.php?mostra=news&menu=News&id_nom=Why+Isn%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99t+the+Nobel+Peace+Prize+For+the+Champions+of+Peace%3F

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Drei Nobelpreisträger protestieren gegen den Friedensnobelpreis 2012 
für die EU: http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/index.php?id=1234

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