{"id":806,"date":"2014-10-20T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=806"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:23:25","slug":"nobel-committee-independence-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Committee independence questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many around the world cheered when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Malala Yousafzai along with Indian campaigner Kailash Satyarthi in Oslo earlier in October. But away from the celebrations, the Norwegian Nobel Committee itself has come under fire. Critics are now calling for a serious shake-up of how its members are selected, saying it needs to prove its independence from the Norwegian government. Here&#8217;s my piece for<a href=\"dw.de\/insideeurope\"> Inside Europe<\/a> on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2577882-norwegian-nobel-committee-independent-enough\/embed\/v3?eid=AQAAAIfvRFTaVScA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; min-width:320px; max-width:700px;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_807\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BzklX79IAAAFIeo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-807\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BzklX79IAAAFIeo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Independent? The Norwegian Nobel Committee is not perceived by all to be entirely independent from the Norwegian government\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BzklX79IAAAFIeo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BzklX79IAAAFIeo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independent? The Norwegian Nobel Committee is not perceived by all to be entirely independent from the Norwegian government<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2577882-norwegian-nobel-committee-independent-enough\">listen to \u2018Norwegian Nobel Committee &#8211; independent enough?\u2019 on audioBoom<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many around the world cheered when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Malala Yousafzai along with Indian campaigner Kailash Satyarthi in Oslo earlier in October. But away from the celebrations, the Norwegian Nobel Committee itself has come under fire. Critics are now calling for a serious shake-up of how its members are selected, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}