Since the Cold War era, the nuclear arsenal has encouraged many countries to play the power game with others. With modern nuclear weapons posing a serious threat to humankind, it has become really difficult to understand whether we live in a civilised world. At a time when all the major powers are competing against each other to stamp their authority in global geopolitics through military might, the Nobel Committee sends a strong message of peace to the global community.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a non-governmental organisation that has spread mass movement in more than 100 countries with the promise to destroy the nuclear weapons, has recently been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. By honouring ICAN with the Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee has sent a clear message to the warmongers – we should join hands to protect the world from nuclear powers.
On behalf of the Nobel Committee, its chairperson Berit Reiss-Andersen said on October 6 that the ICAN “has been a driving force in prevailing upon the world’s nations to pledge to co-operate … in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.” She also said: “The organisation is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition on such weapons.”

Berit Reiss-Andersen

Meanwhile, Executive Director of the ICAN Beatrice Fihn thanked the Nobel Committee for nominating the non-governmental organisation for the Prize, saying: “It sends a message to all nuclear-armed states and all states that continue to rely on nuclear weapons for security that it is unacceptable behaviour.”
He assured the global community that ICAN would continue to fight against warmongers, stressing: “We are trying to send very strong signals to all states with nuclear arms, nuclear-armed states – North Korea, the US, Russia, China, France, the UK, Israel, all of them, India, Pakistan – it is unacceptable to threaten to kill civilians.”
The Nobel Committee, as well as the entire world, has realised the importance of destroying the nuclear arsenal forever. People across the globe, except the warmongers, are ready to abandon all weapons of mass destruction. And the Nobel Committee basically honoured the public opinion by selecting ICAN as the winner of the Peace Prize.

The international community has expressed serious concern over the North Korean nuclear programme, but Kim Jong-un is reluctant to abandon the programme. Iran, too, is eager to join the nuclear race. Even Pakistan has made it clear that it will never hesitate to use nuclear weapons against India, if necessary. Of course, there are counter threats in each of these cases. And slowly, we’re all moving towards the final moment.
In modern world, tension mounts in a particular region and cools down gradually. Then, a new tension mounts in a different region. Many believe these are isolated incidents. But, that is not the case. They are inter-related. Warmongers trigger tensions for their own sake. Their main aim is to sell arms.

The fact is that humanity doesn’t want to move towards destruction. Those, who (knowingly or unknowingly) push the world towards the dead end, should be condemned. That’s why the Nobel Committee’s message is so important. We are not ready to welcome the doomsday.

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Koushik Das (born on May 16, 1976 in Kolkata) is a career journalist. Based in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Koushik writes mainly about foreign policies and current geopolitical issues, and rarely about other topics. His own political ideas are highly influenced by Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Michael Oakeshott and others. English philosopher and political theorist Oakeshott (Dec 11, 1901-Dec 19, 1990) says that “in political activity, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea. There is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place, nor appointed destination. But we have to keep afloat”. (Rationalism in Politics, 1962) As a student of Political Science, Koushik loves to share his views on issues, which have great impacts on his thought process (and also on India, South Asia and of course on the global community), with his readers through his website – Boundless Ocean of Politics. By doing so, he tries to keep himself afloat. You will find some of his articles in https://inserbia.info/today/ (https://inserbia.info/today/author/kou_das13_i/), as he has been trying to assess the global geopolitics since 2003. You can also mail him at kousdas@gmail.com View all posts by Koushik Das