The Nobel Peace Prize: Who Will Win?

Name: Liu Xiaobo

Odds: 4/5

Xiaobo is a 55-year-old Chinese dissident who is currently imprisoned in China. In 2009, after his public support and championing of Charter 08, a document demanding that China

Name: The European Union

Odds: 12/1

This alliance of European countries is high on the odds list, though the justifications remain murky. For stopping conflict in Europe through free trade and open borde

Name: Mary Robinson

Odds: 12/1

Robinson is the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, a worthy position to be honored for. She is considered, by some, to be anti-Israel, though that ma

Name: Tim Berners-Lee, Roberts and Cerf, and the internet

Odds: 14/1

The power of the internet to help peace and democracy is obvious, though as we've read recently, may be overstated (as in the case

Name: Hu Jia

Odds: 14/1

Like Liu, Hu is a jailed Chinese dissident. Hu's work has been mostly in environmental activism and fighting for better care and more rights for Chinese AIDS patients. He was

Name: Morgan Tsvangirai

Odds: 14/1

Tsvangirai was a former political dissident in Zimbabwe who worked within the system and eventually won an election over the corrupt ruler Robert Mugabe. While the vict