Chatham House Prize - 2013

The UK's Chatham House has seen fit to award the Chatham House Prize for 2013 to one of the three nominees.

As they describe it:

The annual Chatham House Prize is awarded to the statesperson who is deemed by Chatham House members to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year.

The three nominees are: Tendai Laxton Biti, Finance Minister, Zimbabwe (2009-), Hillary Rodham Clinto, ex-US Secretary of State (2009–13), and Juan Manuel Santos, President, Republic of Colombia (2010-).

Unfortunately, Chatham House has seen fit to honour more of the same. Any Minister, even from the opposition, workign under the Dictator of Zimbabwe is clearly not a candidate. Ex-US Secretary of State has done a worthy but there is still too much left undone to honour her. The President of Colombia has agreed to sit down in Cuba and negotiate with a buch of Colombian terrorists, and this must be difficult, but the jury is still out on results and performance.

Chatham lost the opportunity to redefine the meaning of 'statesperson' and recognize a true heroin of the international arena, Malala Yousafzai, the Fighter, according to the UN! Shame!

Visit voting page (voting by members only): http://www.chathamhouse.org/events/chatham-house-prize

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