Nobel prize as whole haven't lost its credibility but I'd rather say committee made mistakes while awarding Nobel Peace prize several times and in recent past those mistakes are quite noticeable.
According to Alfred Nobel’s will, Peace Prize is to be awarded to individuals and institutions that “have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses,”
I'll give you few examples of how they gave award to some undeserving folks.
- Mother Teresa:
What people think of her is 'she's old saint devoted her life toward the welfare of poorest of people'. But this is exactly what everyone saw during that time but fact was something different. She was actually pretending to do so. She did take poor ill people to serve them but what actually she did was letting them die all in the name of Jesus. The facilities she provided were abysmal. Mr. Aroup Chatterjee who used to work with Mother Teresa actually wrote about actual situation about those missionaries where he revealed the other side of Mother Teresa. What everyone saw was perfectly curated image of Mother Teresa as a social worker working for welfare of people. And that's why academy given her Nobel Peace prize.
2. Barack Obama:
Barack Obama was nominated for Nobel Peace prize just 12 days into the office. And actually won it after a few months. What he had done before that ? A good election campaign. nothing else. And fun fact about Barack Obama’s term is he was the first president of America during whose both terms of 8 years America was at constant war in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and he won Nobel prize for peace.
3. Malala Yousafzai:
Malala was a 15 year old school going girl from swat valley northwest Pakistan where local Taliban prohibited schooling of girls. They found Malala and other girls going school in their bus and they started firing on bus in which Malala got shot in her head, but she survived and recovered completely in London. Sounds good up till now, no? What Happened next is bit funny. Malala got attention of whole world everyone was praising her for her bravery. As the story was told she was activist at the age of 15 who's fighting for girls right of schooling. She even won Nobel prize after that. But thing is our beloved teenage activist never went back to Pakistan where she needed to resume her fight. Till date she has never visited her home country once after that incident. She started writing books, blogs, started giving motivating interviews and all of sort. But the fact is Malala got hit by a bullet in blind fire on the school bus there were other school girls present with her. Who stayed behind and fought the actual fight. After months of the incident they again started with their schooling. On other hand Malala was enjoying her lavish stay in London. Was she doing something for the girls of her country other than giving interviews? No. The other girls who started the real revolution after incident deserved so much credit not Malala Yousafzai.
Sadly Nobel Peace prize just given on the basis of sentiments not by judging work done by the person. Which is not what Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will.
