The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened. Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population. For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peac ... press.html ---------- i think that that pretty much explains it. before i read this article, when i discussed with people obama's nobel peace prize i would say something along the lines of how pretty much a huge chunk of the rest of the world didn't like america before obama came along. everyone had their reasons, whether their reasons were justified or they were simply ignorant. Obama changed a lot of that. people around the world love obama, which transfers over to at least a tolerance for america as a whole. i dont think that obama did anything specifically to deserve a nobel peace prize, but what he did was encourage world cooperation. also, even if he doesnt solve anything for america, during the campaign, when people were losing their jobs and their homes, he gave them the sense of hope that maybe things will get better. but what do i know. im just a girl from canada.
I've heard what Obama said when he received the nobel prize and his words were very well chosen. And he didn't have a choice too !
Haha Nobel invented Dynamite, and there is a Peace Prize named after him. Anyways, I don't think Obama should have gotten it because he hasn't done anything yet.