Our man for the Nobel

Five citizens of one of the world's least strife-torn countries will spend the next few weeks in Oslo deciding who will get this year's Nobel peace prize. They will choose from a secret but partly-leaked list of 99 people. Some of them are, maybe rightly, supporting violence in their own country (Winnie Mandela) or subsidising it in neighbouring Nicaragua (Ronald Reagan). Others include the usual collection of symbols (Bob Geldof) and saints (Dr Anatoly Koryagin, who has bravely written about the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union). We think the committee ought to choose somebody this year who has helped his country to move from violence towards Oslo-like tranquillity.