Word: toennesson
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Dates: during 2006-2006
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...favorite for this year is former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari,? said Stein Toennesson, director of the Peace Research Institute-Oslo, who gave the statesman a 50% chance of taking the prize for his role brokering a peace between the the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian government. ?He has been involved in several peace processes in his life, in Libya, the Balkan; he has a special role in Kosovo; but the main reason is the role he played in Indonesia...
...Toennesson also gives Ahtisaari?s cohort in the process, Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a 20% chance of taking the prize because he actually signed the deal. Human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer gets a 15% odds of winning for her leadership of the minority Uyghur population in northwest China...
...possible that they might ignore the role of the Aceh peace process, but I don?t find it likely for them to do that,? said Toennesson. ?I must admit that I normally bet on people who are involved in real political peace processes - a mediator, or an organization dedicated to peace. But the current committee has a different profile and they are trying to widen the prize to new categories of winners...
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