Satire became obsolete, Tom Lehrer said famously, when Henry Kissinger, then the US secretary of state, was awarded the Nobel peace price in 1973. So, where do recent Nobel peace laureates rank on the Kissinger Index? The prize was slightly undermined by the Colombian people voting to reject the deal in a referendum – five days before the prize was awarded. Kissinger rating: 2/5 HenrysLiu Xiaobo, 2010The Norwegian committee has sometimes antagonised other countries by giving the peace prize to dissidents, critics and opponents of other states. Indeed, Sino-Norwegian relations took a drastic nosedive when the committee awarded Chinese human rights dissident Liu Xiaobo the peace medal in 2010.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2016 15:00 UTC