The peace prize, worth 9 million Swedish Krona ($1.1 million) will be announced on Oct 6 and can go to one or more individuals or organisations. A number of winners of the peace prize have gone on to launch wars or escalate them. Dan Smith, the director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize might even have harmed the Rohingya. The risk of disappointment arises because Nobel committees pick laureates for the hope they carry or a recent achievement, rather than the sum of a career, said Asle Sveen, a historian of the Nobel Peace Prize. "That is what makes the Nobel Peace Prize different from all the other peace prizes," said Sveen.

Source: bd News24 September 27, 2017 15:22 UTC