Who has declined the Peace Prize?

OntarioVanMan · Oct 11, 2009

From 1901 to 2009, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded 90 times to 120 Nobel Laureates – 97 times to individuals and 23 times to organizations.

Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho is the only person to have declined it.

He and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were jointly awarded the 1973 Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord. According to the Nobel Prize website, "Le Doc Tho said that he was not in a position to accept the Prize, citing the situation in Vietnam as his reason."

greg334 · Oct 11, 2009

The prestige of the award has been lost for a long long time.

It is like the Oscar, who really cares if the person was nominated, that doesn't really mean a thing. Some actors refused to be part of the joke, Brando sending Sacheen Littlefeet to refuse his Oscar over the issue of the flim industry cr*pping on American Indians or George C. Scott showing he could care less about the Oscar by sitting at home and watching the Red Wings on TV when his name was called.

The prize means nothing since ALGORE got his, he didn't do a thing other than be a hypocrite (and lier) and making a lot of money while flying his G5 all over the place for parties. He beat out a person who actually did something in their life, saved children from the Nazi death camps - wow global warming beats out the holocaust, by accepting the award is ALGORE saying the holocaust is not important?

Mendela and Arafat, both terrorist, both have blood on their hands and both headed an organization that killed women and children but received a peace prize for something that they 'stood' for. There are a lot more deserving people out there who should have gotten it and Mendela should have been treated like Arafat and refused a visa to come here to the US.