The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on 13th October.
Who might/should win?
It's all guesswork, but the three "lead" candidates are rumoured to be:
- Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish President who brokered a peace deal in Aceh; he's also the UN Special Envoy to determine the final status of Kosovo
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia, again, for Aceh, and as well, for his response to the Boxing Day Tsunami
- Rebiya Kadeer, prisoner of conscience in China for Uigur rights (in the north-west of China)
One possible solution would be to give a joint award to Ahtisaari and SBY.
There are a whole lot of other people who could win:
- a joint award to Bono and Bob Geldof, for their ongoing work on global poverty
- a joint award to Stephen Lewis (UN envoy on AIDS) and Zackie Achmat/Treatment Action Campaign
- Betty Bigombe, in recognition of peace in northern Uganda
- Romina Picolotti, Argentinean lawyer and human rights activist
- Gao Zhi Sheng, a prominent and outspoken defence attorney of the practitioners of Falun Gong
- Lida Yusupova, a lawyer and spokeswoman for victims of the war in Chechnya
- George Ryan, former U.S. Governor and anti-death penalty campaigner
- Marguerite Barankitse, for setting up children's shelters after the Burundian civil war
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