Joseph Underhill, program director of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum talks with the Star Tribune鈥檚 John Rash about how ICAN鈥檚 award 鈥渇its very squarely within the mandate and framework of the Nobel Peace Prize as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel, given its emphasis on disarmament, peace conferences and promotion of fraternity among nations.鈥�
Geneva-based International Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize聽for 鈥渋ts work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.鈥�
Weapons are 鈥渟een as an ongoing concern,鈥� but that the Nobel committee was clearly 鈥渟ignaling concern about the current risks of nuclear conflict given the level of tension and the rhetoric around the Korean Peninsula and the leadership in both the U.S. and North Korea鈥� adds Underhill, who is also an associate professor of political science at 绿茶直播, where the Nobel Peace Prize Forum took place last month.
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