A01=Fredrik S. Heffermehl
Alfred
and Pacifism
Antimilitarism
Author_Fredrik S. Heffermehl
Barack
Bertha von
Category=GTU
Council of Europe
Democracy/Democratic Government
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Foundations
Geir
Gorbachev
his Nobel speech
International Peace Bureau
Lundestad
Mikhail
Militarism
Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel Prizes
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Norway-Sweden Relations
Norwegian Nobel Committee
Obama
Parliament of Norway
Peace Congresses
Rule of Law
Suttner
Value of Dissent
Wills and Testaments
World Wars I and II
Product details
- ISBN 9780313387449
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this groundbreaking and controversial critique of the selections of Nobel Peace Prize winners, an eminent Norwegian lawyer and peace activist calls for its return to legal and moral compliance with the will of Alfred Nobel who wished to support disarmament to prevent war.
The Nobel Peace Prize is the world's most coveted award, galvanizing the world's attention for 110 years. In recent decades, it has also become the world's most reviled award, as heads of militarized states and out-and-out warmongers and terrorists have been showered with peace prizes. Delving into previously unpublished primary sources, Fredrik Heffermehl reveals the history of the inner workings of the Norwegian Nobel Committee as it has come under increasing political, geopolitical, and commercial pressures to make inappropriate awards.
As a Norwegian lawyer, Heffermehl makes the case that the Norwegian politicians entrusted with the Nobel peace awards have brushed aside the legal requirements in Scandinavian estate law using the prize to promote their own political and personal interests instead of the peace ideas Alfred Nobel had in mind. Evaluating each of the 119 Nobel Peace Prizes awarded between 1901 and 2009, the author tracks the ever-widening divergence of the committee's selections from Nobel's intentions and concludes that all but one of the last ten prizes are illegitimate under the law.
Fredrik S. Heffermehl is a Norwegian lawyer and international peace activist.
