Saturday, October 17, 2009

Flashpoint 387 - Obama Peace Prize

Flashpoint 387 - Obama Peace Prize from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.


A discussion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace prize to Barack Obama. There is a discussion of arguments for and against presenting this award. The panelists include: Alex Darr, Lydia Gubitosi, Dylan Davis, Jessica Bullock and Alfred Snider.

Black screen and silence may begin the video.

Flashpoint is a program of the Lawrence Debate Union
debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/The_Team.html
at the University of Vermont
uvm.edu

Flashpoint programs for download can be found at the archive and the filenames all start with the episode number followed by the topic.
uvm.edu/~debate/watch/

Video by Alfred Snider, University of Vermont
debate.uvm.edu

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gandhi never won the Nobel peace prize. He was nominated for the award 5 times- 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and 1948. There are no posthumous awards except when death takes place after the award announcement.

Telkom University said...

Can you outline the main points of contention or arguments against awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, as discussed by the panelists during the discussion?Telkom University