December 10th, US President Barack Obama picked up his 2009 Nobel Pease Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. The Nobel Peace Prize was said to honor Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Obama was sound asleep in the White House when the Nobel Committee made the shock announcement. He said in Friday that he was “surprised and deeply humbled” by the award. And he expressed that the decision was less as a recognition for his own accomplishments and more as “a call to action”.
The Norwegian Nobel committee recognized Obama’s efforts to push dialogues on complex global problems, including working toward nuclear nonproliferation. “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said.
Obama acknowledged the ongoing U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and said that he is the “commander in chief of a country that is responsible for ending a war and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary that directly threatens the American people” and U.S. allies.
“This award is not simply about my administration,” Obama said. It “must be shared” with everyone who strives for “justice and dignity.”
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