I remember in 2006 when Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize[1]. As a teen I wasn't particularly interested in the peace prize and knew that the quality of

I remember in 2006 when Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize[1]. As a teen I wasn't particularly interested in the peace prize and knew that the quality of it was quite low compared to the other Nobel prize; The peace prize is given out by a committee elected by _Norwegian parliament_ a political organization, unlike the scientific one which came from the Academy, in Sweden. Why I remember Yunus was because it was shocking to teenager me, that a banker received the prize; but when the details of why it was revealed to me, it blew my mind how helping poor people through lending is actually helping for the somewhat "vague" goal of peace. To young me it was the first time "take a big problem, such as peace, and break it down to smaller problems which you can solve. Solving big problems directly often fails" resounded. Then the following year I was ofc like everyone else disappointing with EU, Obama getting it. I often even joked with my friends that the Peace prize is actually cursed because Syrian crisis and migration crisis, and Ukraine 2014 happened quite quickly after and made the entire peace prize look stupid. I wish the Peace prize focused more on concrete action that have be proven to *lead to peaceful results*, rather than throwing the price at people/organization that *represent* something virtuous. Attention economy and Social medias "like" culture already cover the "appraisal to the virtuous sayer than the pragmatic doers" phenomenon enough. But I guess going around actually looking for results and evaluating it is a time-consuming and a hard thing, compared to just searching for symbols and words. That said, it seems like this years recipient seems to rather be on the good side. [1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2006/yunus/facts/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2006/yunus/facts/