It seems that Bono is already being considered for the prize....this from
www.youtwo.net: (check the last paragraph)
January 30, 2002
From Reuters:
Nobel prize wide open after attacks
By Inger Sethov
OSLO (Reuters) - The devastating September 11 attacks on the United
States have thrown nominations for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize wide
open with the deadline for names just days away.
Olav Njoelstad, acting director of the Nobel Institute, said the secretive
Oslo-based Nobel committee was still receiving nominations for the
award before Friday's deadline.
Tips for 2002 include former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and
Malaysia's former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, environmental
organisations, media groups or even pop stars.
"There are applications pouring in every day," Njoelstad told Reuters.
Nominations have faxed or e-mailed to the Institute by Friday, or received
by mail postmarked no later than that date, February 1.
He declined to give names of any nominees for the prize, which went to
the United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan last year on the
100th anniversary of the first award.
The number of nominations, which totalled 126 in 2001, will be clear
around the middle of February. The award, worth 10 million Swedish
crowns, is announced in mid-October.
Njoelstad said many nominees were related to peace efforts after the
September 11 attacks. "The events during the past six months are
clearly reflected in the nominations," he said.
Giuliani, praised for his work after the suicide attacks on New York's
World Trade Center, is seen as a likely nominee for the prize, named
after Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
"I assume that Giuliani is among the nominees," Svein Toennesson,
director of the independent International Peace Research Institute in
Oslo, told Reuters.
POSSIBLE MUSLIM AWARD?
Toennesson said the committee might try to demonstrate that the
U.S.-led war against terrorism is not a war against Islam by picking a
Muslim winner, such as Malaysia's now-jailed Anwar.
Anwar, whom the United States has called a political prisoner, is serving
jail sentences totalling 15 years for corruption and sodomy convictions
after a trial that human rights watchdogs have labelled unfair.
"It would be a daring choice, but in line with the Nobel committee's
traditions," Toennesson said. No Muslim has won the prize since
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in 1994.
Toennesson, who correctly tipped last year's winners, said it was harder
to guess 2002.
"We have entered a second century of prizes, opening for a little more
fantasy," he said. "There is no obvious candidate, but I would not be
surprised if it went to a dissident."
The Nobel committee has several times spoken out against authoritarian
regimes and director Geir Lundestad hinted in a speech last year that the
committee should "sooner rather than later...speak out also against the
regime in Beijing".
Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama was the last anti-Beijing activist to win the
prize, in 1989. Awards to anti-Communist campaigners Andrei Sakharov
and Lech Walesa irked the Soviet Union before its fall a decade ago.
Toennesson also mentioned the World Council of Churches, working for
cooperation between religions, and individuals or groups involved in
peace efforts in Sri Lanka and Cyprus.
Former laureates, members of every national parliament and professors
of politics are among those who can make nominations.
In his speech in December to mark the first 100 years of the prize,
Lundestad also said the environment could add a new dimension. And
he cited media groups or even pop stars -- like Bob Geldof, Sting or Bono --
as possible future winners.
Brian
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