A Year Without A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: Like A Year Without…?

Even though it had happened several times since the establishment of the Nobel Prize Committee, did you know that there are years where there are no Nobel Peace Prize winners? 

By: Ringo Bones 

Yes, it is true that it had happened several times since the Nobel Prize Committee had been giving their prestigious prizes out that there are years where no one – or an organization – got awarded with a Nobel Peace Prize. Even though U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2009, strangely, President Obama’s detractors who say that he didn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize “mysteriously” never seem to know that there are years where the Nobel Peace Prize was never given out. 

Those years where the Nobel Peace Prize was never given out first occurred from 1914 to 1916, which has probably something to do with no one trying to stop the outbreak of World War I and also in 1918. Other years where there are no Nobel Peace Laureates are 1928 and 1932. No Nobel Peace Prizes were also issued during 1939 to 1943, which has probably also something to do with no one person or organization trying to stop the outbreak of World War II. 

No Nobel Prizes were also awarded in the year 1948 and also during 1955 and 1956. And the last ever year in the 20^th Century where no Nobel Peace Prizes were given out was in 1966. And from then on, not a single Nobel Peace Prize-free year went by. Despite scores of Nobel Peace Prize free years, President Obama’s detractors never proposed that 2009 should be a Nobel Peace Prize free year. 

Malala Yousefzai: 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate?

Ever since she was shot in the head by a Taliban assassin, has the women’s education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai fast-tracked into the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize shortlist?

By: Ringo Bones

Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old girl who campaigned for girl’s and women’s education rights campaigner from Pakistan got inadvertently catapulted to worldwide fame when she defied a local despotic Taliban edict of her hometown in the Swat Valley region and got shot in the head by a Taliban assassin back in October 2012. Fortunately, she survived the assassination attempt and has since in recovery after an extensive medical operation in Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Malala Yousafzai’s assassination attempt and recovery not only catapulted her into the global stage but also her cause s well of women’s educational rights in a largely despotic and misogynistic Taliban run tribal region of Swat Valley in Pakistan. Has it also fast-tracked her to the shortlist of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize? 

Malala Yousafzai may had been fast-tracked into the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize shortlist may be good news for those with concerns over those places ran by despotic and misogynic theocracies with Al-Qaeda sympathies whose women were treated like second-class citizens. But some people may play the “Devil’s Advocate” role on Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize credentials because she had “skipped ahead” of other Nobel Peace Prize worthy people that had since in line for their own Nobel Peace Prize since 2010, like Uyghur human rights campaigner Rebiya Kadeer. Though given the circumstances involved, Rebiya Kadeer probably doesn’t mind if Malala Yousafzai was the one who will win the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.