This maybe just a little bit more of a passing thought that is incredibly out of date, but I just think it is noteworthy to take the time and examine the cause and effect of the Nobel Peace Prize (NPP) selection. This is a group that takes it upon themselves to analyze the overarching contributors to peace, over long periods of time, and decide who has made the largest strides. Atleast that was the initial pupose behind the NPP. In the last century there have been several occasions where the NPP committee has selected a recipient whom the council has placed confidence of future strides towards peace. This is not to say that this is a bad thing, for if anything, the award is being used to create peace in the world through motivation. I think that this is what the committee was trying to do in the case of electing President Obama as the NPP recipient. The reason that this could possibly cause turmoil is the fact that President Obama was certainly not the one on the list of potentials that had completed the most work towards peace. For people that believe the NPP is to be used to recognized works of the past, this represents a problem.
In terms of communication advancement, I believe that what the NPP Council is doing is actually a good thing. They have taken a form of communication (recognition) in its simplest form (an award) and turned it into a method of world wide motivation. Single-handedly the council instilled a sense of purpose and determination in the Obama peace campaign, while at the same time focusing the efforts and confidences of people, ordinarty citizens, looking to work towards peace. Not all emerging communication modes need to brand spanking new.
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