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RENÉE LOTH

Is the Nobel committee off its mission?

By Renée Loth

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  April 28, 2012

A long-simmering controversy centers on whether the Nobel Peace Prize committee has been violating the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who endowed the prize. According to critics who earlier this year secured a formal investigation into the awards, Nobel intended the prize to recognize leaders working specifically on disarmament — and not the environmentalists, human rights workers, or social justice advocates who have been recipients in recent years.

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