knowledge has no horizons

Star always seems to favour Obama, whether it is the presidential election or Nobel committee’s selection. The charismatic leader of USA is able to catch up the view not only of his people, but the five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Of the 205 total nominations – that include 172 individuals and 33 organizations – for the prize for this year, the young Obama emerged the victor of winning the prize. The third man sitting on the American presidential chair to win the prize after Roosevelt in 1906 and Wilson in 1919 and the fourth of 44 US presidents, Obama is of course eligible to be rewarded with – but too earlier to be awarded.

Having gone into the history of whats, whens and wheres of the Nobel Prize will be a real waste of time, whereas prize for peace has something special and worth knowing. Peace for prize, unlike others that are given by Swedish institutions, is to be given by selected committee elected by the Norwegian parliament to a man who, Nobel himself states in 1895 Will, “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses”.

The prize comes as recognition of his vision of a world without nuclear weapons. The committee honours this man for instilling in people “hope for a better future” and for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. The Norwegian committee didn’t forget to point out his outreach to the Muslim world. He is a man of his words and his pledge to withdraw the US troops from Iraq in the presidential election campaign is gradually getting realized.

The committee’s choice of him as the winner of Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is also left room for debates among observers of Nobel prize. The point that they seek to pinpoint is that Obama took office less than two weeks before the February 1 nomination deadline. That the committee comes with clarifications of its choice or simply leaves it to time to answer is left to time itself.