Trump the Nobel Peace Prize

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 On 9th September, 2020 US President Donald J. Trump took on Twitter to thank a post from JerusalemPost which read as follows -

“#Breaking: @realDonaldTrump was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his hand in reaching the #IsrealUAEDeal…..”

Within 72 hrs of above breaking news, the President again received the 2nd nomination for his role in Serbia-Kosovo peace agreement.

Though both were just nominations and the actual outcome could be different, this news did give a reason to all Trump supporters to cheer as the run up for the election has just started gathering steam all across the US.

2018 also President Trump was close to get the Nobel Peace prize for his attempt to reconcile the relations in Korean Peninsula and Syria. But over the period of last couple of years there has been hardly any ground traction for either of the agreements. Demolishing of the inter-Korean embassy office by Pyongyang and uneasy state of the rubble turned Syria again proofs that International Politics is very layered. Trivial photo-ops should not be confused with a long sustainable peace agreement. And filing nominations basing on such fragile & insignificant development, degrades the stature of the prize which has been awarded to likes of Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela.   

Perils of such hurried decisions by nominators and Nobel Peace Prize committee members, where nomination were filed for the attempt and hope rather than actual work done on the ground, is known to the world. Giving out the prestigious award to President Barack Obama, when he had hardly been in the office for nine months, is one of the glaring examples of such folly.

I will conclude by stating that Nobel peace prize nominator should not let them be misguided by the mere optics of seemingly “significant” events in political sphere but rather should demonstrate more patience. Knotted international issue sometime takes decades to unravel its all facets and eventually very few historically shimmering relationships turn to a peaceful and sustainable one.  


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