> The Nobel Peace Prize 2022 is awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties
I remember in 2006 when Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize[1]. As a teen I wasn't particularly interested in the peace prize and knew that the quality of it was quite low compared to the other Nobel prize; The peace prize is given out by a committee elected by _Norwegian parliament_ a political organization, unlike the scientific one which came from the Academy, in Sweden.<p>Why I remember Yunus was because it was shocking to teenager me, that a <i>banker</i> received the prize; but when the details of why it was revealed to me, it blew my mind how helping poor people through lending is actually helping for the somewhat "vague" goal of peace. To young me it was the first time "take a big problem, such as peace, and break it down to smaller problems which you can solve. Solving big problems directly often fails" resounded.<p>Then the following year I was ofc like everyone else disappointing with EU, Obama getting it. I often even joked with my friends that the Peace prize is actually cursed because Syrian crisis and migration crisis, and Ukraine 2014 happened quite quickly after and made the entire peace prize look stupid.<p>I wish the Peace prize focused more on concrete action that have be proven to *lead to peaceful results*, rather than throwing the price at people/organization that *represent* something virtuous.<p>Attention economy and Social medias "like" culture already cover the "appraisal to the virtuous sayer than the pragmatic doers" phenomenon enough.<p>But I guess going around actually looking for results and evaluating it is a time-consuming and a hard thing, compared to just searching for symbols and words.<p>That said, it seems like this years recipient seems to rather be on the good side.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2006/yunus/facts/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2006/yunus/facts/</a>
Personally to me the "Memorial" org is an interesting case. Similar organizations are spread across the globe but we see they can be forcibly shut in authoritarian states. The risk of losing amounts of historically accurate (crowd sourced) information is at stake. How to decentralize the ownership of such data to prevent the loss in cases when people get killed?
This feels well thought out as it puts a focus the issue of how top down autocracy affects these countries both past and right now, those left picking up the pieces and that there are those that do offer an alternative.
The Nobel prize is becoming a joke. It's mostly political at this point with few exceptions. I won't even start on literature or peace prize, just the fact you'll get it for applied research.
Despicable attempt to paint this clearly good vs. evil war with a uniform grey paint.<p>"Oh, it's just a civil war between 3 "brother nations". It not clear who the real real culprit is, and who is the victim."<p>PS: it's not the laureates who are in the wrong. No, they are all good. It the precise timing and selection of laureates which is scummy.
> Center for Civil Liberties<p>Didn't take long, on this page [1], towards the end, links to donors: NED (always them) and the US Department of State. The warmongering neoliberals have won.<p>[1] <a href="https://ccl.org.ua/en/about-the-ccl/" rel="nofollow">https://ccl.org.ua/en/about-the-ccl/</a>