Snowden tipped for Nobel peace prize
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Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, peace negotiators in Colombia or Greek islanders helping Syrian refugees were among tips for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize at the deadline for nominations yesterday.
Nobel watchers also speculated that negotiators of an accord over Iran鈥檚 nuclear program could be in the running after a surprise award last year to a coalition of Tunisian democracy campaigners, the National Dialogue Quartet.
鈥2016 may finally be Edward Snowden鈥檚 year ... His leaks are now having a positive effect,鈥 Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, said, putting him top of his list of candidates.
Harpviken said many nations were now reforming laws to restrict intelligence gathering, helping human rights, in the wake of Snowden鈥檚 leaks in 2013 of details of the US government鈥檚 surveillance programs.
Washington has filed espionage charges against Snowden, who has been granted asylum in Russia. An award of the US$930,000 prize to Snowden, by a Nobel committee in NATO member Norway, would be a huge snub for President Barack Obama, the 2009 Nobel laureate.
Asle Sveen, an historian and expert on the prize, said he reckoned the 鈥渙bvious choice鈥 for 2016 would be to honor Colombia鈥檚 government and FARC rebel group.
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