WFP beats Trump, Greta Thunberg for Nobel Peace Prize
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WFP beats Trump, Greta Thunberg for Nobel Peace Prize
The World Food Programme (WFP) beat other speculated candidates, such as teenager Greta Thunberg, US President Donald Trump and Afghan peace negotiator Fawzia Koofi, to win the 2020 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
It won for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace in conflict-prone areas.
Chairperson of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, made the announcement at the Nobel Institute in Oslo on Friday.
Reiss-Andersen said the United Nations (UN) agency was chosen for the award for “acting as a driving force to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”.
She said the committee preferred the WFP because it wanted to “turn the eyes of the world to the millions of people who suffer from or face the threat of hunger.”
The award, according to her, is also a call to the international community to fund the agency adequately and to ensure people are not starving.
The chairperson said that the WFP would still have been a worthy recipient of the prize without the coronavirus pandemic.
“The virus has strengthened the reasons for giving it to the WFP, including the need for multilateralism in a time of global crisis.
“Its a very important UN organisation. The UN plays a key role in upholding human rights. Food is one of our most basic needs,” she said.David Beasly, the WFP chief was excited after the announcement. He said: “We are deeply humbled to receive the #NobelPeacePrize .
“This is an incredible recognition of the dedication of the @WFP family, working to end hunger everyday in 80+ countries. Thank you @NobelPrize for this incredible honour!”
The WFP is the largest humanitarian organisation in the world, assisting 97 million people in 88 countries in 2019.
Its efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations.
The WFP, established in 1961 with headquarters in Rome, Italy, has joined the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Labour Organisation and the UN Children’s Fund, as Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
Other UN agencies on the list are the UN Peacekeeping, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UN itself.
A former UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, and former Under-Secretary-General, Ralph Bunche, are also Nobel laureates.
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A worthy cause - and a good choice for the prize, in particular for the reasons given by the Chairperson of the Nobel Committee.
It seems that Trump has been trying his hardest to get someone to nominate him for the Peace Prize. I suspect he is full of jealousy that Obama was awarded the Peace Prize and thinks that should get one too.
Now that he has been nominated by two Trump right-wingers, Trump thinks he should be getting all the attention and praise as if he has actually won it, citing all the attention Obama got when he won it. But, he has been informed by the Committee that Obama did not get any attention until after he had won the Prize, not just for being nominated. However, that is not how Trump wants it to be handled, so it will be interesting to see how it pans out.
I knew he was nominated, and I was very concerned he was going to be named because of the Israel and two Arab country settlement, because I knew that if he did he would really play it up as a plus towards winning the election. The public should know that HUNDREDS of people are nominated each year for that prize, some of whom have good reason for winning it. I kind of hoped it would have been Tedros and the WHO jointly, because that would have been exactly what Trump would NOT have wanted to see. At least America has been by far the greatest contributor to WFP - Maybe Trump will get so angry about being overlooked he will quit and defund WFP now.
Well...we all....or at least most...of us know that Trump thinks that none of the others that have been nominated could possibly be more deserving than he is. It is all about him, and only him. So if he does not win a Prize then he will not accept it as being fair and rain his wrath on them. Hopefully by the time the prizes are awarded he will no longer be President and he won't be able to inflict too much damage on them.
He has already determined that the election will not be legal if he does not win, and will declare it invalid and refuse to step down. Even if the SCOTUS declares it valid, he will fight having to leave the WH and step down.
Well, you probably know what I've posted already as to what will have to be done if he refuses to leave the White House.