President Barack Obama who galvanized & mesmerized the whole world & swept the Election in 2008 Elections with a Slogan “CHANGE” is a frustrated & failed President today who despite his powerful oratory & persona is burning his midnight oil to bring back the road to prosperity. When he was elected President in 2008, Obama had established himself as a thoughtful, articulate leader who had the formidable capacity to overcome political odds and the courage of convictions to tilt the political balance away from the then-discredited far right. Not only is he losing the mass appeal but also many of his policies are backfiring & people’s perception & craziness for Obama is dying & fading away.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee which emphasis that nomination process first shortlisted & then considered by the Nobel Institute’s permanent advisers & the Institute’s Director and Research Director, the body of advisers generally consists of a small group of Norwegian university professors with broad expertise in subject areas with a bearing on the Peace Prize should therefore be questioned in conferring the highest honour to Obama in misjudging the unpredictable feature that believed the Honour given is in anticipation for world peace. A close look at US policy in international peace will reveal that Obama Administration erred major decisions & angered the civilians. “I am of the opinion that Obama is one of the cause, if not for all, is the prime reason for the current world disorder & disruption of peace & tranquility in the sensitive regions”. While conferringthe highest honour the Committee observed that “Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened. Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.”. “To my mind this prediction & anticipation to confer on the basis of his charisma has clearly marginalized the institution. Obama is undoubtedly a powerful world leader, but history will not remember him for his oratory but the clear lack of statesmanship”. Lets have a look at the Luminaries who have won this great honour, & to compare with all of them will mere be a stupidity.
2010 Liu Xiaobo
2009 Barack H. Obama
2008 Martti Ahtisaari
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2006 Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
2005 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei
2004 Wangari Maathai
2003 Shirin Ebadi
2002 Jimmy Carter
2001 The United Nations ( U.N.) and Kofi Annan
2000 Kim Dae Jung
1999 Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
1998 John Hume and David Trimble
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta
1995 Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin
1993 Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1989 The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
1988 The United Nations Peace-keeping Forces
1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986 Elie Wiesel
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1983 Lech Walesa
1982 Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979 Mother Teresa
1978 Mohammad Anwar Al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
1977 Amnesty International
1976 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
1975 Andrei Sakharov
1974 Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato
1973 Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
1972 The prize money for 1972 was transferred to the Main Fund.
1971 Willy Brandt
1970 Norman Ernest Borlaug
1969 The International Labour Organization (ILO)
1968 René Cassin
1967 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1966 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1965 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
1964 Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 The International Committee of the Red Cross and The League of Red Cross Societies
1962 Linus Carl Pauling
1961 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
1960 Albert John Lutuli
1959 Philip John Noel-Baker
1958 Georges Pire
1957 Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1955 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1954 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1953 George Catlett Marshall
1952 Albert Schweitzer
1951 Léon Jouhaux
1950 Ralph Bunche
1949 Baron John Boyd Orr of Brechin
1948 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1947 The Friends Service Council and The American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers)
1946 Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott
1945 Cordel Hull
1944 The International Committee of the Red Cross
1943 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1942 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1941 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1940 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1939 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1938 The Nansen International Office for Refugees (Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés
1937 Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil) Cecil of Chelwood
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935 Carl von Ossietzky
1934 Arthur Henderson
1933 Sir (Ralph) Norman Angell (Lane)
1932 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund.
1931 Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
1929 Frank Billings Kellogg
1928 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund.
1927 Ferdinand Edouard Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
1926 Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
1925 Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes
1924 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1923 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund.
1922 Fridtjof Nansen
1921 Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange
1920 Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
1919 Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1918 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1917 The International Committee of the Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge)
1916 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1915 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1914 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute’s Special Fund
1913 Henri La Fontaine
1912 Elihu Root
1911 Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried
1910 The Permanent International Peace Bureau (Bureau International Permanent de la Paix)
1909 Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault
1906 Theodore Roosevelt
1905 Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner
1904 Institut de Droit International (Institute of International Law)
1903 Sir William Randal Cremer
1902 Elie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat
1901 Henri Dunant and Frédéric Passy
In his acceptance speech Obama said “Compared to some of the giants of history who have received this prize – Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela – my accomplishments are slight. And then there are the men and women around the world who have been jailed and beaten in the pursuit of justice; those who toil in humanitarian organizations to relieve suffering; the unrecognized millions whose quiet acts of courage and compassion inspire even the most hardened of cynics. I cannot argue with those who find these men and women – some known, some obscure to all but those they help – to be far more deserving of this honor than I. But perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I…….am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars. One of these wars is winding down. The other is a conflict that America did not seek; one in which we are joined by forty three other countries – including Norway – in an effort to defend ourselves and all nations from further attacks. Still, we are at war, and I am responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill. Some will be killed. And so I come here with an acute sense of the cost of armed conflict – filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other.
It goes on to prove that Noble Prize is not a kids honour but is given on the basis of what is called “ a rare exhibition of dramatic achievement” & clearly Obama does not deserve it. The Norwegian Nobel Committee should therefore need to introspect.
The Author is Chairman & Editor-In-Chief of Indian Affairs Magazine & loves to write on personalities who are misconstrued by the masses for wrong reasons. He can be contacted at[email protected]
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