I mean, to start to work for getting DU nominated.
Actually, I really jumped when reading about this :D
The actual award is one thing, but think about all that goes with the peace prize (and a peace prize nominee); you'll get a lot of attention, it will be difficult to overlook the DU point of view, the DU would be bolstered against attack from rightwing authorities and so on.
Knowing the comittee from up close, the significance of bolstering the American democracy at this point in time must be very apparent to them. And they ARE a neutral and very unpolitical group of people, the commitee:
"The Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five, appointed by the Storting (the Norwegain parliament). According to rules laid down by the Storting, election to the committee is for a six-year term, and members can be re-elected. The committee's composition reflect the relative strengths of the political parties in the Storting. Although this is not a requirement, all committee members have been Norwegian nationals. The committee elects its own chairman and deputy chairman. The Director of the Nobel Institute serves as secretary to the committee."
"The Nobel Committee is completely independent. In its assessment of nominations for awards, it receives no instructions or directives. According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, there must be no mention in the minutes of any Nobel Committee meetings of the contents of discussions relating to choices of candidates for the various awards, nor must any differences of opinion in committees be divulged in other ways. For that reason, committee members take no part in the public debates which follow the announcement of decisions."
To suggest a candidate, the nominator must be of the following:
"Nominators
New nomination rules, effective from 2003. Compared to the old rules the list of nominators has been slightly expanded.
Any one of the following persons is entitled to submit proposals:
- members of national assemblies and governments;
- members of international courts of law;
- university chancellors; university professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology;
- leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs;
- former Nobel Peace Prize laureates;
- board members of organisations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize;
- present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (committee members must present their nomination at the latest at the first committee meeting after February 1);
- former advisers at the Norwegian Nobel Institute."
More info here:
http://www.nobel.no/eng_com_index.html
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