Finlarvat wrote:Dread Lady Nathicana wrote:It's a sad sort of situation when you have a hard time thinking of organizations who are actually actively, and legitimately, working towards peace out there in the world. We have a number of groups loudly protesting, or flag-waving, or shouting about this, that, or the other problem, but I wouldn't quite categorize their efforts as either peaceful, or encouraging peace. Some have been mentioned here already, others have not.
I cannot, for reasons I would hope might be obvious, list any American political personages. Those operating under the delusion that anything most of these people are doing is for the greater good, for selfless reasons, or for any actual peace, may need to re-examine things minus the rose-colored glasses. (That's just an opinion, mind you. Not pointing fingers at anyone in particular.)
Doctors Without Borders continues to be an organization that does what it can to help those least able to help themselves, and usually, the least responsible for the horrible things going on in the worst areas of the world - the innocent bystanders, the civilians who don't know where to turn, what to do, and who are caught between two or more warring factions, and invariably, being the ones paying the ultimate price for it. That said, they've been nominated and won already.
Perhaps a spin on that, then -the doctors, nurses, and others who are working in the underground hospitals and other such places in Aleppo, primarily, and other targeted cities this past year. The people who have been attempting, without sufficient water, power, tools, medicine, without sanitary conditions, and under threat of, or actual bombardment, still valiantly attempting to do what they can to save lives.
The people doing brain surgery on blood-soaked floors in the middle of recovery rooms because there is no other option. The people working feverishly to remove ball bearings from the spines, brains, livers, and other parts of children who have been hit by cluster bombs with the markings of supposedly 'civilized' countries on them (yes, that would be Russia). The people who have no time to clean the mess up in between operations because of the constant flow of humanity into these often dimly-lit, maze-like structures, sometimes as the buildings collapse around them.
The people showing a sense of humanity in a place where that word seems to have lost meaning in all the pointless politically-driven bloodshed.
I figure that'd be my nomination this year. It's the best I can think of. It may not be actively encouraging peace, but it's bringing what peace they can to those who are suffering from a severe lack of it.
I don't think that you can nominate MSF, aka Doctors Without Borders. They won it last year, thus making them ineligible. Have you read the OP?
Actually it appears like you didn't read Nathi's nomination thoroughly.