I just did a quick WT search from 1983 to 2006. Eighteen out of twenty references are quoting Nobel prize winners to support the article's conclusions. Elie Wiesel is a favorite:
*** w91 4/15 p. 4 Is World Peace on the Horizon? ***
Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel once wrote: "From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever."
I see the society is quite happy to quote Nobel Prize winners their snippets of concern over world conditions. Would they similarly encourage their membership to read more about what these great advocates have to say? Would Elie Wiesel advocate the Watchtower "solution" to the world's problems is withdraw from the world altogether and wait for Jehovah to fix it?
Here are some mildly critical comments on the Nobel Committee. I note that the society is careful to tag the committee with it's national origin, though the committee itself doesn't. www.nobelprize.org
*** w04 8/1 p. 4 The Search for Good Government ***
Such proclamations have won the UN praise and admiration from many quarters, as well as the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. In thus honoring the UN, the Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that "the only negotiable route to global peace and cooperation goes by way of the United Nations."
*** w95 10/1 p. 3 Fifty Years of Frustrated Efforts ***
For 50 years the United Nations organization has made notable efforts to bring about world peace and security. Arguably, it may have prevented a third world war, and the wholesale destruction of human life through the use of nuclear bombs has not been repeated. The United Nations has provided millions of children with food and medicine. It has contributed to improved health standards in many countries, providing, among other things, safer drinking water and immunization against dangerous diseases. Millions of refugees have received humanitarian assistance.
In recognition of its accomplishments, the United Nations organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize five times. Yet, the lamentable fact of life is that we still do not live in a world without war.
*** w91 2/1 p. 10 pars. 1-2 Honor Jehovah—Why and How? ***
EACH year four Scandinavian institutions award Nobel prizes to those who have ‘conferred the greatest benefit on mankind during the preceding year.’ The prizes are given for achievements in six different fields of endeavor. A Nobel prize is considered by many to be the greatest honor that can be bestowed upon any human.
2 While there is nothing wrong with according honor to deserving humans, do those bestowing these honors ever give thought to honoring mankind’s greatest Benefactor?
The society's backhand criticism, comes across as sour grapes. It seems the society refuses to honor the works of men, as if our efforts somehow demean God. Even worse, if we are to apply the conclusion in the book of Revelation, by association and support of the United Nations, the entire Nobel Prize Committee is condemned to eternal death.
