It also goes down the history as one of the less controversial Nobel Peace Prizes, since the word "peace" is pretty relative. This relativity has been exploited by the Nobel committee who have awarded less deserving people raising multiple eyebrows worldwide and somewhere eroded the charm of the award.
Critics say the Nobel Peace Prize is a "political tool" which is used by the West to promote its narrative. The prize is sometimes given to those with violent pasts, sometimes it was presented to those who cannot even justify the award.
Former US President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 just nine months after taking office. The nomination of the awards had closed 12 days after he had assumed office.
The Dalai Lama in 1989 won the award for being a Tibetan exile.
The Nobel Peace Prize website reads: "The award of the Peace Prize gave the Dalai Lama the opportunity to present a plan for the restoration of peace and human rights in Tibet. In the plan, he had recommended that the country be turned into an ecologically stable and demilitarized zone that might serve as a buffer between major Asian powers."
The biggest irony of the Nobel Peace Prize is that one of the world's strongest symbols of peace was never honoured - Mahatma Gandhi's nomination was never considered. He was nominated for the Peace Prize in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and shortly before he was assassinated in 1948. However, the year he died the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to make no award.
It said: "There was no suitable living candidate." The Nobel Committee now calls Gandhi the "missing laureate".
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