Actually, the prize was awarded jointly to Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, for their efforts on the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.

And Eric, I believe your device already exists.

Ummm, hate to tell you this Eric but you are one of the moonbats, just the right wing variety.

How many Nobel Peace laureates actually furthered the cause of peace? At the top of my head I can think of these:

George C. Marshall - for leading the war effort in WWII (he actually won for the Marshall Plan)

Lech Walesa - for leading the collapse of the Polich Communist government (he won the prize 6 years too early)

Mother Teresa - Christian/Hindu relations in India are better than they would have been without her ministry

Martin Luther King - black/white relations inproved more rapidly because of his leadership

All too often the Nobel Peace Prize goes for the following causes:

- The Keystone Kops of peace (UN, Int'l Atomic Energy Agency)

- Untested peace plans (Bunche, Kissinger, deKlerk/Mandela, the Oslo catastrophe)

- People who work with do-nothing peace think tanks (many during the first two decades of the Peace Prize)

- Arms limitation efforts of some variety (Kellogg-Briand Pact sponsors and supporters, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War)

- Humanitarian efforts (Red Cross, Borlaug, Médecins Sans Frontières, Yunus )

- Dissident activity that raises awareness but has no effect on the oppressive regime with which the dissident is at odds (Sakharov, Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi)

I would like to see a separate prize for humanitarians. One for freedom-supporting dissidents, too.

FYI, the Nobel site's bio on the IPPNW doesn't say anything about disarmament, but the agency's
own site links "A resource for secondary school students and educators on nuclear weapons and disarmament," which was put forth by the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society and the Swedish Section of IPPNW. So yes, it belongs in the "gun control" category - and the "peace think tank" category as well.