I hope this is not prescient of times ahead. To have awarded the prize for the past 60 years during a time of unrest, such unrest having been around now for about 4 years, is quite worrying.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216664/European-Union-awarded-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html
Previous winners have been :
2011: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.
2010: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
2009: US President Barack Obama
2008: Martti Ahtisaari, UN Special Envoy at the Kosovo status process talks
2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
2006: Bangladeshi banker Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank
2005: International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
2004: Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai
2003: Iranian lawyer and human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi
2002: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
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