Nobel Peace Prize 2000-09 POLL

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Idea from Nobel Prize winners POLL: 2000-09 over at ILBooks, plus tis the season. Most worthy winner, in your opinion?

(Apols in advance if I've overrun a text limit in the poll options.)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
2002: Jimmy Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to a 3
2007: IPCC and Al Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate 3
2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"3
2003: Shirin Ebadi "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for 2
2000: Kim Dae-Jun "for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for 1
2008: Martti Ahtisaari "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to reso 1
2009: Barack H. Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between 1
2004: Wangari Maathai "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". 0
2001: U.N. and Kofi Annan "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world" 0
2005: IAEA and Mohamed ElBaradei "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purpose 0


anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 October 2010 14:29 (fifteen years ago)

Yes exactly, text limit. Full citations:

2000: Kim Dae-Jun "for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular".
2001: U.N. and Kofi Annan "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"
2002: Jimmy Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development".
2003: Shirin Ebadi "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children.".
2004: Wangari Maathai "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace".
2005: IAEA and Mohamed ElBaradei "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"
2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"
2007: IPCC and Al Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"
2008: Martti Ahtisaari "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts".
2009: Barack H. Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".

anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 October 2010 14:30 (fifteen years ago)

Ugh – bunch of hacks, mediocrities, and undeserveds here. Kim, I guess.

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 October 2010 14:31 (fifteen years ago)

ugh what a bunch of worthless douchebags

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 22 October 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

seriously, all these guys are worse than hitler

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 22 October 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

puking into my laptop right now

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 22 October 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

brb scorching my fingertips in a hot frying pan so I don't accidentally vote for any of these wastes of oxygen

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 22 October 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)

Put your fingers in Kofi's mouth – that'll cool'em.

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 October 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

All the winners in odd years were embarrassments. (except for Shirin Ebadi. Swap her with Carter and it'd be a clean sweep for the odd years)

I'd probably pick Ebadi or Kim.

NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 22 October 2010 15:05 (fifteen years ago)

These are the same folks who picked "Tennessee" best single of 1993?

Ballard, Dick (Eazy), Friday, 22 October 2010 18:00 (fifteen years ago)

Yunus voted for "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang" iirc

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 23 October 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, voted for Yunus, who I think does deserve a little more credit. IPCC doesn't seem so bad either. Obama most ridiculous, right?

EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 23 October 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)

genuine lol at eazy there

balls, Saturday, 23 October 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)

Obama most ridiculous, right.

Ahtisaari OKish, or have I missed some dirt on him?

Sorry for mispasting the name of Kim Dae-jung btw.

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 23 October 2010 17:32 (fifteen years ago)

gore

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 23 October 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

obama got a peace prize for basically not being bush, right?

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 23 October 2010 17:42 (fifteen years ago)

And doing a speech in Berlin, I guess.

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 23 October 2010 17:47 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 29 October 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

w/ two terms, Obama could approach Kissinger as the sickest joke

already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:43 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Peace Prize jury gets slapped

http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-jury-under-investigation-152500580.html

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 February 2012 19:02 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

I hope they don't bomb 7 countries

this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 October 2014 16:06 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

via Greenwald... 2014 winner tells '09 winner to stop arming the world

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/peace-prize-winner-malala-yousafzai-obama-stop-arming-world-n231231

this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:22 (eleven years ago)


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