This year’s nominees for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize include a woman who escaped from ISIS sexual slavery, the pope, and billionaire and presidential hopeful Donald Trump, according to CBS News. According to The Independent, Trump has been nominated for the prize because of his, “vigorous peace through strength ideology”.
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For a presidential candidate who’s frequently stated he would “bomb the sh*t out of ISIS”, his connection to a peace prize seems tenuous at best.
Trump joins Pope Francis, Edward Snowden, a women’s cycling team from Afghanistan and Nadia Murad, an activist supporting ISIS rape victims.
Richard Goodstein, Washington D.C. Lawyer and Advisor to the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign, told Morocco World News that this nomination aims rather to put Trump on the spotlight and highlight the threat he poses to worldwide peace and security with his anti-Islam and anti-Latino rhetoric.
The rules for the actual voting are more stringent, so don’t worry about Trump going to Oslo for the ceremony (unless you want him to go – then you should worry, because it’s doubtful the man who called for a mass ban on immigrating Muslims will get it). So if your old roommate, say, teaches psychology at a community college in Colorado, you too could be a nominee!
After a breakthrough on the Iran nuclear standoff, negotiators Ernest Moniz of the USA and Ali Akbar Salehi of Iran are also among Harpviken’s favourites, as well as Colombian peace negotiators President Juan Manuel Santos and rebel leader Timoleon Jimenez.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee will have their first judging meeting on February 29. That’s how the AFP learned that Trump was nominated.
Thousands of people around the world are allowed to nominate including former prize winners, government ministers, a number of university professors and former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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The five-member Nobel committee receives about 200 nominations each year, which are kept secret for 50 years – unless they leak, which they often do.
