When we all debated the somewhat surprising and possibly too original angle of the Nobel Peace prize for Al Gore's climate change initiative in 2007, I could detect a meaningful sense in the award within a world which was at relative peace or durable truce in arms and thus potentially set for a next level of ambitious harmony.
I had greater difficulty with the award to then recently elected Barack Obama in 2009, which suggested that a mere mass media caught message of hope in itself would be a contributor to a better world. It certainly can be, but does it dignify the messenger a Nobel Peace Prize ?
With the EU now being the 2012 Laureate for peace, I hear the explanation of the Norwegian branch but get troubled with the thought of whom might come to collect the award, but maybe I am wrong and a random EU citizen will be invited to rent a white tie and come to Oslo City Hall.
I suposse that the gross of Nobel prizes will have primarily served to stimulate or attribute an impulse to whom is need for an extra push in the right direction and in that respect the thought that the EU would be one of the neediest candidates at this point in time is scary.
The amount of socialogical studies on nut cases like the one that conducted the attacks on Utøya and very near from where the Nobel Peace Committee itself is elected, tend to demonstrate that such cases are indeed an increasing threat to (inter)national security or even stability, which in itself hints that we are facing a tough job looking forward in catering to individual freedom within a more collective (self) rule. Then again, that is a hard issue to handle, not exclusive to the EU.
It would have fit the Nobel institute well in today's world to step out of the normal 9 month nominee evaluation period and pick 14 year old Malala Yousafzai as a vibrant forward looking candidate in need of a push.
Oh well, at least we can find comfort knowing that this Monday, the Nobel prize in economic sciences will not go to the European Union.
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