United States President, Donald Trump, has been nominated for 2017
Nobel Peace Prize. Trump was nominated by an unidentified American who
wants the US leader recognised for “his peace through strength
ideology”.
A near-record 318 people and organisations are in the
running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Institute said on
Thursday, a motley crew believed to include Syria’s White Helmets,
Donald Trump and Pope Francis.
The names of the nominees are kept
secret for 50 years, but those entitled to nominate candidates —
including lawmakers and government ministers, former laureates and some
university professors — are free to reveal the name of the person or
group they have nominated.
As a result, the list is believed to
include the White Helmets, jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, and Edward
Snowden, who revealed the scope of America’s NSA electronic surveillance
programme.
The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is highly critical of some
of Trump’s first acts as president, is also believed to have been
nominated.
Yet others include Pope Francis, nominated by a
Norwegian member of parliament because “he is one of the rare ones to
stand up to Donald Trump”, as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin
and former French president Jacques Chirac.
The only tidbit the Nobel Institute would disclose was the breakdown of the nominations: 215 individuals and 103 organisations.
This
year’s number of candidates is the next-highest since the prize was
first awarded in 1901, second only to 2016 when 376 names were in the
running.
The Nobel committee, whose chairwoman Kaci Kullmann Five
died of breast cancer on February 19, is expected to announce the 2017
laureate on October 6 though that date has yet to be confirmed.
Last
year, the prize went to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his
efforts to bring peace to his country ravaged by a half-century of
conflict
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