If you see the Nobel Peace Prize as a committee trying to "counterbalance" war, choosing journalists committed to truth in the era of seemingly neverending misi

If you see the Nobel Peace Prize as a committee trying to "counterbalance" war, choosing journalists committed to truth in the era of seemingly neverending misinformation and disinformation is about as on-the-nose a statement as you can make. And if you are indifferent to this counterbalancing, at least take heart that over the past 6 years there has been a significant decline in fatalities related to armed conflicts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_in_2020#/media/File:Conflict-related_fatalities_in_the_world's_17_deadliest_countries_2014_-_2020.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_in_202... And 2021 is continuing the trend, and 2022 will hopefully as well as the Afghanistan conflict winds down.