And for those wondering, this year’s U.S. Quaker nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize was Gene Sharp, whose exhaustive list of nonviolent strategies and case studies is must-reading for any campaigner.
And for those wondering about the “Quaker vote,” Friends won the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize en masse for post-war relief work. Friends were represented by what was then called the Friends Service Council (now Quaker Peace and Social Witness) in London and by the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia, both of whom have the honor to nominate future recipients. According to the FGC Quaker Youth blog, this year’s AFSC nominating nod went to Sharp. The actual vote is up to the Nobel Committee itself.
