Obama Wins Nobel Peace Price 2009
October 9th, 2009
Barack Obama, the current President of United States has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize because of his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” – which addressed to his outreach to the Muslim world and attemps to curb the proliferation of nuclear.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama’s creation of “a new climate in international politics”.
“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said, in a news release. “His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”
Thus, the decision made President Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked many people, including those Nobel observers all at once; but actually it’s not a stunning surprise since the Nobel committee’s judgement has always been a surprise such as when they awarded Yasser Arafat (1994), Jimmy Carter (2002) and AlGore (2007).