Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.
If people like Obama and Kissinger can win a Nobel Peace Prize, the prize is meaningless.
Obama got it before the drone bombings. It was more of a hope kinda thing but the hope didn't turn out that great. And really just indirectly led us to vaguely gesture around
They're supposed to not qualify for high office either so probably these days. Asking for a friend?
In the US at least, the constitutional requirements for being elected to the presidency do not prevent felons from being elected, and there are good arguments for this. A weaponized judicial system can be used to oust or prevent political opponents from gaining the presidency.
Yeah, we're just supposed to have an informed populace and a functioning electoral college to prevent the actual bad criminals from taking control.
Funnily enough, he DOES qualify for a jail cell. 34 times actually.
If there were any justice in the world, it would be significantly higher than 34.
It's almost a prerequisite now.
of course they can, Nelson Mandela won one, and he was famous for his time in prison
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for opposing South Africa's apartheid regime, which enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
Op asked "if someone who was a convicted felon/rapist could they be awarded the nobel peace prize?."
These two are things are not the same, and just to make sure we're both on the same page, they're not the same because one of them went to prison as a form of protest against an unjust system. The other raped some people.
Want to go take a deep breath, realign your chakras and reread OPs comment?
‘Cause I literally replied with a convicted felon (Nelson Mandela) that was awarded the Nobel peace prize
Would it be easier if I provided another example? Liu Xiaobo was in a jail cell when he was awarded the Nobel peace prize
A felon just means someone who broke the law, akaik. Law != morality.
Can? Sure. Should? No.
It's worthwhile remembering though that the people who get it aren't all saints. Although rape and sexual assault are particularly distasteful items to have on the resume, if the person repented and then contributed meaningfully to lasting world peace, they shouldn't automatically be stricken off the list.
So those admittedly distastefully liberal guidelines should exclude any current resident of the White House then.
I think they should ignore any person who is so publicly thirsty for it. It's a prize you get, not one you ask for.
It's unnerving having to read that the US ally Norway feels like they need to prepare for retaliatory tariff action if the independent committee for the award, that only ended up in Oslo by a quirk of Scandinavian history, doesn't award the prize to 47. Sad.
Many past peace price winners were leaders in armed conflicts, and war is dirty business. So I assume the rules on crimes aren't that strict.
Asking for a friend
It's the reason a felon can take office in the government. Otherwise, it would be easy to "convict" someone you considered a threat.
They can, yes. It is worth noting that some recipients were convicted for various "crimes" in their home countries, such as the Chinese human rights activist who won it in 2010.
Plus, five words: Henry Fucking War Criminal Kissinger. 1973.