Kushner nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Alan Dershowitz

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31. You, too, can become a Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Getting nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is evidently not that difficult https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/01/you-too-can-become-nobel-peace-prize-nominee/

To the average reader, the news seems weighty. Former White House adviser (and presidential son-in-law) Jared Kushner was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in helping to shepherd peace deals between Israel and several Arab nations. The Peace Prize holds an outsized role in the public imagination, the ultimate indicator of the positive role a human being can play in the world. And here, it seems, the award might be on its way to Kushner — among the more polarizing figures in American politics over the past four years.

Except that he almost certainly won't win it, any more than his father-in-law was likely to after his own nominations last year. As it turns out, while a Nobel Peace Prize nomination is a bit trickier than simply sending a guy in Norway a postcard with someone's name on it, it's not much trickier than that. A nomination is, in essence, as serious as the person doing the submitting — who is a member of a not-particularly-rarified group of people.

Before we explain how you, too, can earn a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, it's worth letting a bit of air out of the award itself. Yes, it is an important designator of efforts to shape the world for the better. But it is not itself a guarantee either of the moral purity of its recipients or of the security of their accomplishments. As Reuters broke the news about Kushner's nomination, the news organization was elsewhere reporting on a coup in Myanmar, during which the country's elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was imprisoned by the military.