Chemical Weapons Watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize

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The OPCW is a fine organisation, but the Peace Prize? Really?

These guys help with implementation, but they're not the reason Assad decided to sign the CWC. If that's what the prize is for, then you need to give it to Putin or Lavrov (which would, of course, be very silly).

The intention of the prize was to reward people and organizations which worked for peace and human comity. Unlike many of the recent winners this organization actually meets the scope of the prize as described in Nobel's will. They are not the reason why Assad will hand over his weapons, they are the reason that people who don't trust assad, don't trust the russians, the americans or the zionists will trust to verify that he has disarmed.

That's my point, though. Awarding a Nobel to a useful verification mechanism is as much a stunt as, say, Obama's prize. And at least Obama's first term saw the revival of a hitherto moribund nuclear disarmament process as a result of his Global Zero speech.

Again, I'm not knocking the OPCW. They're doing vital work in a dangerous part of the world. But there are a lot of other NGOs that do this, and frankly work in dangerous areas as a matter of course rather than an exception.

I'm of the view that the prize should not be awarded every year unless there is a exceptionally deserving winner.

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I'm of the view that the prize should not be awarded every year unless there is a exceptionally deserving winner.

This.  The prize is degraded when awarded just so that it is awarded.