Can you be a nobel peace prize winner then actively provoke conflict?

Mairead Maguire is a peace prize winner however she is on a boat heading for the gaza blockade basically daring the israeli/egpytian blockade to do something about their actions





Should she lose the prize?





Can you be about peace and promote conflict?





If the Nobel Committee wasnt totally biased would activists like this one ever win the award?|||well they gave prize to barry for doing nothing so hard to tell what they are worth or mean anymore...








and yes she should get it taken.....








and yes they are biased.......|||Of course. Here are a couple of examples:





1988





The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces - did they ever go anyplace without arms? It could be argued that they merely protect the status quo against forces seeking to change it. They won the prize in '88 and then proceeded to become moving targets in the '90s Bosnian-Serbian Civil War.





1986





Elie Wiesel - Chairman of 'The President's Commission on the Holocaust'. This man's work, while quite admirable, has sometimes resulted in imprisonment and legal harassment for certain people on questionable evidence. Case in point: American auto worker and former (conscripted, he claims) German Army prison camp guard John Demjanjuk. The court cases on this have been mixed. Demjanjuk claims that he was not "Ivan the Terrible", a death camp guard accused of war crimes against prisoners during World War II. If I remember correctly, Demjanjuk, who is originally from Ukraine, claims that he knew "Ivan", who was apparently also Ukrainian, but that Ivan died in 1943. There are also death camp survivors who claim that Demjanjuk is not "Ivan".|||she seems like a hero to me, the peace prize is never given to wimps.





you seem to hate the fact that aid was being taken to gaza, they really need it, to me i did not see any on the boats climbing the ropes to stop the aid.





you may be pretty but u r ugly on the inside.|||I wonder if shes going to be doing any peaceful head bashing with lead pipes.... No, the NPP can not be taken away. It can however be renounced. I hope that she gets really peaceful to the point where the IDF decides to use even more peaceful measures to dispose of her.|||learn what DISCERNMENT means. If I never hurt anyone in my life %26amp; you thought I was the most peaceful person you ever met but one day %26amp; dog started attacking you would I still be so peaceful if I stood their or would you say I promoted peace by doing something even if it killed the dog but saved your life?|||Send a nice letter to Norway and ask them to define the meaning of Nobel Peace Prize. In the definition, it will explain to you what the Peace Prize represents. Then look up the meaning of conflict. Those two definitions should help you with the answer.|||I love it how ReichWingers twist a convoy bringing food to starving people into some terrorist plot.





Of course, to justify the random killing of SIX people that we know, they must come up with lame excuses like, "ooh he was bring wheelchairs to Hamas"!|||Sounds like you side with the abusive husbands when they say "b***h provoked it! It wasn't my fault!" ... doesn't sound like she's provoking any conflict to me.|||LOVE the question, but I'm afraid the irony will be lost on most of the Y/A crowd.





EXCELLENT and thought provoking....|||Bringing humanitarian aid in an unarmed vessel to people who desperately need it is not provoking conflict.|||Yasser Arafat got one because he agreed to stop bombing Israel for a while.|||Our token president provokes conflict within the US and still has his.|||Killing in the name of peace is OK. Ends justify the means.|||the peace prize is meaningless. they will give it to anyone.|||I don't see why not. If President Obama can win the Nobel Peace Prize, anyone can. The next recipient might even be Ahmadinejad of Iran. In the end, it's not what you've done, but who you are and what you have.