Viet Nam Human Rights
The message of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014
21/11/14
In recent
years, the decision of the Nobel Peace Prize
of the Norwegian Nobel
Peace Committee has always causing controversy in the international community.
The list of
nominees for 2014 Nobel Peace Prize is the longest one with 278 nominations, including 231
individuals and 47
organizations; the two candidates who have won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize are Pakistani
girl Malala Yousafzai
and the Indians activist for children's
rights Kailash Satyarthi. The
girl is said to be too young (17-year-old girl Malala
has became the youngest person to
win the Nobel Prize) and the
other one, previously, perhaps only the Indian people
know of him. As
the previous times, the main reason of the debate is how much these candidates
deserve to win.
Indeed, the
fact that the Nobel Peace Prize
has always controversial and is completely understandable,
because:
First, the
criteria which has been set by the founder of the prize, Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's
will, the prize will be awarded "to the person who has made great contributions in promoting solidarity among nations, in eliminating
or limiting the
armed forces and in
organizing conferences to promote
peace ". The criteria
doesn’t make sense, it depends on sense, feeling and politics and it’s hard to determine accurately.
Second,
the process of the award’s selection. To ensure objectivity,
the award is decided by a committee consisting
of five members, who has been chosen by the Norwegian parliament and are not among
current MPs. However,
the assessment of individual efforts and achievements by a small number of
members, could easily be limited, not comprehensive.
Third, the
difference to the other Nobel Prize. For the
Nobel Prize in literature, physics, biology and
chemistry, the candidates are considered
after two or three decades
since the birth of
their contribution - for example,
invented the LED award
Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 is awarded for the invention of LED light. In contrast, the contribution
within the year or
within short period of time around consideration
time has been meaningful to decide
on the candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. Because of this short-term,
in history, the Nobel Peace Prize
has been "incidents"
for many times, as Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939, especially
in the case of President
Theodore Roosevelt (right
after was honored in 1906, he forcibly suppressed
the uprising against the US
military occupation of the people
of the Philippines). Furthermore, in contemporary
international life, the issues relating to peace or
war are extremely
complex, and it often
requires the efforts for a long process to solve
them.
Fourth, the
Commission has never given enough explanation in the public about why
candidates are awarded. The Commission’s notices are very short, such as statements about Malala: "She has
been struggling in the most dangerous circumstances. With the courage, Yousafzai has became the spokesperson for the girls ", or comment
on Satyarthi:"He has contributed greatly to the development of international principles relating to children's rights ", etc… These notices can not
differentiate clearly between the winners and the rest,
especially in cases where there is
a long list of candidates.
Above all, perhaps,
our self-evaluation of each candidates’ achievements has given rise
to this debate.
But this
debate may helps us to better understand the message of the
Nobel Prize Committee, even
though it is not publicly announced.
Decided
to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for contributions
relating to the rights of children,
perhaps Norwegian Nobel Committee
wants to send to
the international community following
implications:
Firstly, it was
time to give warnings about
the severity of violations of children's basic
rights, notably the right to go to school. According to a new report published
in June this year by the UN, which estimated 58
million children worldwide are not in school, showing the girls are the most disadvantaged.
The failure to receive the minimum knowledge has
made these children easily to
fall into the path of crime. Because the
majority of children, who is not in school, is living in
areas where conflict is occurring or poverty
areas, such as in
the Gaza Strip, Kashmir,
Syria,
Ukraine, Somalia,
etc. As we
can see in
many parts of the world the image of the
8 or 9-year-old children
who can not read or write well but using
professionally a submachine gun,
so it can be affirmed that the survival of this planet truly threatened.
The fact
is that, people have been struggling to
find ways to address hot spots, from
the dialogue to violent measures, but still
no results. But there is a
general resolution for regional
conflicts that parties probably do
not know either deliberately
forget - just
let children go to school. Simply by doing this all the "hot
heads" will reduce their heat.
It is
easier to understand, protecting children's
rights means ensuring a bright future for human being.
Giving the
Nobel Peace Prize to two citizens of Pakistan
and India,
maybe the Norwegian Committee want them to
become ambassadors of peace
to help the two neighboring
countries could end the conflict has dragged
for decades as land of Kashmir. This was
evidenced by the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. At that time, there
wasn’t the work which has been done in less than a
year, it was the thought
to promote dialogue, firstly with the Muslim world had helped the US
President Barack Obama win this award. More
importantly, it seems that President Obama has always been haunted the honorable Prize, for instance in the case of Syrian
chemical weapons in 2013.
In the
context of the stressful world with conflicts and hot spots in many parts of the world, the Committee considered the
Nobel Peace Prize has significant
contributions for peacemaking, preventing war in the future. This is also understandable.
If so, the debate
about who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize was
not so important anymore. Now, what everyone
needs to do is
probably to think about the messages from each
award, because each of the Nobel Peace Prize are all aimed at
peacemaking, just by the different
ways./.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman
In my opinion, they both deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for what they has been trying to do for the children.
The two were named winner of the £690,000 (8m kronor or $1.11m) prize by the chairman of the Nobel committee
"Children must go to school, not be financially exploited."
Through her heroic struggle, Yousafzai has become a leading spokeswoman for girls' rights to education
The Nobel committee said it “regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism
The Nobel Peace Prize should have a great contribution for making peace in the world.
There are still 65 million girls worldwide who are not in school. Millions start lessons but drop out for reasons including having to work or being forced to marry very young.
I hope this year prize would contribute to raise people awareness's about children rights and heal the wounded between two countries, two religions
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