访谈录[Interview]2007-10-14:诺贝尔和平奖会为戈尔带来什么（在线收听） |
| ''...challenge we've ever faced.'' Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize puts him in the company of such human rights activists as Iranian Shirin Ebadi , and more controversial winners like Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. In 1973, Henry Kissinger won, along with North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho who turned down the prize, saying his country was not at peace. But is the prize principally about peace or is the Committee also making a political statement? The answer—politics play a big role. In 2002 when former President Carter won, the Nobel Committee chairman said the award should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current U.S. administration has taken in international politics. In selecting Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the Committee said it wants to increase focus on efforts to protect. ''the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. '' Many environment experts do see these efforts as critical for peace. And the committee has recognized that climate change, if unchecked, would be a cause of conflict in the future. The British newspaper The Guardian says drought helps spark the conflict in Sudan, making it likely the first climate change war. Still there are plenty of peace activists worldwide. Who was Gore’s competition? And how does the Committee decide? They don’t want us to know. ''And again, Thanks the Nobel Committee.'' You have to be invited to nominate someone, and the 5-member panel appointed by the Norwegian Parliament keeps its work top secret, including, the Committee says, investigations and opinions related to the award of the prize. Now with all this as a huge honor, the Nobels don’t necessarily add a lot of fuel to the efforts that they are highlighting. One good example, in 1991, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won, but she spent most of the following years in detention in her country. And to this day, in Myanmar people are fighting for basic rights and freedoms. Josh Levs, CNN Atlanta. |
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