Aung Sang’s Nobel Peace Prize - Actions have diminished the award

Just as the Victoria Cross — though solely a British award — is recognised globally as the foremost recognition of valour in wartime so, too, the Nobel Peace Prize has gained international acceptance as the world’s most revered award for the advancement of human rights.

Established in 1895, the peace prize has gained that recognition and respect largely through the calibre of those chosen as recipients, among them Martin Luther King, as well as our own John Hume and David Trimble.