Facebook Revolution: Egyptian Activists Up for Nobel Peace Prize. Esraa Adbel Fattah and Wael Ghonim both used the power of Facebook to organize activists and find those unhappy with Egypt's current regime.
Now both are nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Ghonim, whom we have written extensively about, is a former Google executive who started the Facebook page, "We are all Khaled Saeed," in 2010 which became a rallying cry for change and protest. He was imprisoned by the government in January and released 10 days later. The lesser-known Abdel Fattah, also started a Facebook page in 2008 calling for a national strike, was also imprisoned for 18 days, and her actions are credited as the start of what would become Egypt's revolution, the Christian Science Monitor reported. Nobel peace prize: Bradley Manning tops reader poll. Bradley Manning, the US intelligence analyst accused of leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, has been found competent to stand trial.
Photograph: AP Private Bradley Manning should win the Nobel peace prize, according to our readers. Following a poll in which we asked readers to vote from a selection of main contenders, the US soldier accused of leaking more than 250,000 secret diplomatic cables to Julian Assange's WikiLeaks received almost 40% of the votes, relegating Assange himself to second place. Other Manning, who has spent the past sixteen months in custody, received just under 2,500 votes in our poll.
Readers were invited to share the reason for their choices in the comments section, and were also encouraged to nominate candidates that did not appear on the list of main contenders. alaysica was one of many who voted for Manning. SteB1 added: Aung San Suu Kyi is probably the most deserving conventional candidate. Richard1980 had this view: No to giving it to Assange. I think Aung San Suu Kyi.
Top contender for Nobel Peace Prize? Social media. Gunnar Lier / AFP - Getty Images This year's Nobel Peace Prize will honor a positive development in the world, the prize committee's chairman says.
By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Update for 6 p.m. ET Oct. 7: The Nobel Peace Prize went to three women from Africa: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian human-rights activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman. Karman's selection as part of the trio served to recognize the contribution of the Arab Spring movement, according to prize committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland. From Oct. 5: This year's Nobel Peace Prize, due to be announced early Friday in Norway, seems certain to have a social-media spin. Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Winner Might Want to Send Honor Back to Oslo. Established in 1901 as a recognition to individuals whose work had served to defuse hostility between nations, the Peace Prize was, for its first 60 years, generally awarded to diplomats, politicians and others who had been directly involved in peace negotiations of one kind or another.
Since the 1960s, the Prize has increasingly been focused on recognizing civil society leaders whose work has been transformative within specific societies. Front-runners for this year's prize, which is announced tomorrow, include the leaders of the 'Arab Spring' uprisings and the people behind the Wikileaks government transparency movement. And perhaps that's not such a good thing for them. A look at the Nobel laureates over the past 10 years reveals how most have had to face all manner of hardships after receiving the prize. While a causal relationship would be hard to ascertain, the sheer anecdotal information is enough to raise suggestions of a ‘curse’ A Nobel Peace Prize For The Arab Spring? Who Would That Go To? : The Two-Way.
Hide caption If the Nobel Peace Prize is to go to someone involved with the Arab Spring, it may be difficult to choose who gets the award.
Here, men celebrate in Tunis after President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali said he would not seek another term. Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images. Nobel Peace Prize: Could Facebook or Twitter win? Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg up for the Nobel Peace Prize? Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Man of the Year in 2010.
Could he be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize next? It may seem unlikely, but on Wednesday Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, made some provocative comments that fueled speculation Zuckerberg could be a contender for the prestigious award. "For me and the committee it is quite obvious if you look at the world today and see what is happening out there," Jagland said in an interview with the Associated Press.
"What are the major forces pushing the world in the right direction? " Could he be referring to a Web platform that allows users to connect around the world? The Nobel foundation, which sponsors the prize, does not list the names of the contenders, but it has publicly stated that it received 241 nominations -- 188 individuals and 53 organizations. There are thousands of people who are eligible to nominate contenders, and it's entirely possible that Zuckerberg was nominated.