‘Vigorous’ ideology earns Trump Nobel peace prize nomination

LONDON: Controversial Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 for his “vigorous” ideology that counters radical Islam as aweapon of deterrence, according to media reports.
The ‘unlikely’ nomination of the 69-year-old hard-liner for the coveted peace prize highlights the vulnerability of the award — that it is easily misused as a publicity tool for apolitician whose goals would seem to many as antithetical to the Nobel committee’s.According to the information available on the Nobel Prize website: “A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later.”
Nominations for the award, that had a submission deadline of February 1, are a closely-guarded secret but those who nominate candidates can reveal the name of the person they have proposed, reports said. An American male senator or congressman nominated Trump — the real estate tycoon who is currently the Republican presidential frontrunner, according to Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of Oslo’s Peace Research Institute.
Harpviken told the Telegraph that he had seen the letter, which described Trump’s “vigorous peace-throughstrength ideology” as an effective “threat weapon of deterrence against radical Islam, IS, nuclear Iran and Communist China”. Trump was criticised globally over a call for banning all Muslims from entering the US. Harpviken said that whoever nominated Trump probably did it to secure more press coverage for the controversial candidate.