After Kissinger the mass murderer(and Arafat) received the Nobel prize I don't think anyone takes it seriously. But Bush was so bad that they gave it to him for not being Bush. If they had a Nobel War prize, I'm sure Bush would win in a landslide.
Someone mentioned Greg Mortenson being considered, I agree, good man.
“We’ve spent billions of dollars building a wall around America with homeland security, but we also need to reach out to build bridges,” says Mortenson. “If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. In the long-term, we have to help feed and clothe people where terrorists are recruiting volunteers. And we have to educate them—especially the girls. We have to prove to them that the world can be a better place. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.”
“In the past 10 years,” says Mortenson, “more than 80,000 Pakistani and Afghani boys who received hard-line religious instruction in these madrasas were fed directly into the ranks of the Taliban. Islamic extremists know they can use these religious schools as an effective vehicle for recruiting terrorists. The West has so far failed to recognize that offering an alternative by building secular schools is the cheapest and most effective way of combating terrorism.”