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[electricland]

I am so thrilled about this year's Nobel peace prize. The Grameen Bank is such a brilliantly simple and simply brilliant concept, and it's helped so many people. I hope we don't see the same sort of grouching as we did when Wangari Maathai won two years ago. I'm interested and pleased that the committee seems try and take a broad approach to the concept of "peace" -- the prize doesn't just go to people who try and end conflicts, but sometimes it goes to people who try to address the roots of conflict in the first place.