Fredrik Heffermehl
Fredrik Heffermehl | |
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Honorary President of the Norwegian Peace Council | |
Assumed office 2004 | |
President of the Norwegian Peace Council | |
In office 1988–2004 | |
Vice President of the International Peace Bureau | |
In office 1994–? | |
Vice President of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms | |
In office 1997–? | |
Secretary-General of the Norwegian Humanist Association | |
In office 1980–1982 | |
Succeeded by | Levi Fragell |
Personal details | |
Born | Rena, Norway | 11 November 1938
Died | 21 December 2023 | (aged 85)
Occupation | Lawyer, civil servant and peace activist |
Fredrik Stang Heffermehl (11 November 1938 – 21 December 2023) was a Norwegian jurist, writer and
Career
Born in Rena, Heffermehl enrolled at the
In 1988 he became the president of the NGO
Support of Mordechai Vanunu
Heffermehl was an outspoken supporter of
Nobel Peace Prize criticism
From August 2007 Heffermehl marked himself as a staunch critic of the
His views were first explained in depth in the 2008 book Nobels vilje (English: "Nobel's Will"). Since 1948, the selection of members of the Nobel Committee has been delegated from the
In an interview with Ny Tid he suggested that the current Committee members be replaced with people such as Jan Egeland, Ingrid Fiskaa, Jostein Gaarder and Sverre Lodgaard.[4] Other suggestions from Heffermehl include Gunnar Garbo, Ingrid Eide, Erik Dammann, Torild Skard, Reiulf Steen, Johan Galtung and Berit Ås.[12] In Nobels vilje, Heffermehl regretted that Eide had not been hired as Nobel Committee secretary when she actually applied for that position in 1990.[13]
In November 2023, the book The Real Nobel Peace Prize. A Squandered Opportunity to Abolish War was published.[14][15] It is based on in-depth studies of the locked-down archives of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.[15]
Criticism of Norwegian parliament distorting Nobel's intention
In the autumn of 2010 Heffermehl published a critical study, The Nobel Peace Prize. What Nobel really wanted.[16] The aim was to look into the methods used by the Norwegian establishment to repress his rediscovery of the content of the prize for "the champions of peace" named in the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel.[17] Nobel made a choice between two fundamentally different ways forward for humanity, either continuing to seek peace by military means or by co-operation on international law, institutions, and disarmament.[18] When Parliament and the Nobel Committee ignored his views and declared that no one supported his interpretation,[19] Heffermehl set out to prove them wrong. He found that numerous academic and other works over the years had expressed the same views on the role of Bertha von Suttner and that Nobel intended to support the antimilitarist peace movement.[20] This made it necessary to use the fate of the Peace Prize for a case study of the distortion of Nobel's testament and how Parliament had managed the prize entrusted to them by Nobel.[16] "The Nobel Peace Prize" in English has been updated and expanded for editions in Chinese (FLP, Jan. 2011), Swedish (Leopard, Oct. 2011), Finnish (LIKE, Dec. 2011), Russian (Aletheia, in 2012). On 10 December 2011, a leader of the Nobel Family Association for 15 years, Michael Nobel, supported the criticism voiced by Heffermehl, warning that Norwegian politicians may lose their independent control of the peace prize.[21]
Death
Heffermehl died late December 2023, at the age of 85.[22]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Fredrik S. Heffermehl 60 år 11.november". Norwegian News Agency. 21 October 1998.
- ^ "70 år 11. november: Forfatter Fredrik S. Heffermehl". Norwegian News Agency. 23 October 2008.
- ^ Todal, Per Anders (21 January 2006). "Krig og fred og religion og Bondevik". Dag og Tid (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 December 2008.
- ^ a b c d e Dahl, Miriam Stackpole (10 October 2008). "Fredspriskuppet". Ny Tid (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
- ^ Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
- ^ "Erna Solberg overprøvde UDI i asylsak" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 9 April 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
- ^ Nordstoga, Anders (9 April 2008). "Støre: – Vi gjør nok overfor Israel i Vanunu-saken". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 December 2008.
- ^ a b "– Tildelingen bryter med Nobels vilje". Norwegian News Agency. 12 October 2008.
- ^ a b Fyhn, Morten (6 October 2008). "– Nobelprisen misbrukes!". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
- ^ Geist, Anton (7 October 2008). "– Deler ut ulovlige fredspriser". Klassekampen (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
- ^ Heffermehl, Fredrik (16 December 2007). "Norge og NATOs kriger". Dagbladet (in Norwegian)letter to the editor
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "Mener medlemmene i Nobelkomiteen må skiftes ut". Norwegian News Agency. 12 October 2008.
- ISBN 978-82-7990-074-0.
- ^ Staff, Indy (18 December 2023). "In Memoriam David Krieger 1942-2023". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
In the recent book, The Real Nobel Peace Prize: A Squandered Opportunity to Abolish War, the renowned Norwegian expert on this most coveted of peace prizes, Fredrik Heffermehl, writes convincingly that David deserved the prize more than many of its recipients because his life's work and that of the foundation he created.
- ^ a b "The real Nobel Peace Prize - a squandered opportunity to abolish war". www.norli.no. Norli (bookstore). Retrieved 25 December 2023.
- ^ .
- ISBN 978-0-313-38744-9, preface, p. xii
- ^ Heffermehl (2010), pp. 6, 39
- ^ Committee secretary Lundestad, Aftenposten 6 April 2009
- ^ Heffermehl (2010) pp. 165-172 mentions a.o.: Ragnvald Moe (1932), Hertha Pauli (1942), Irwin Abrams (1962, 1972, 1992), Ursula Jorfald (1962), Birgit Brock-Utne (1985), Kenne Fant (1991), Gerd Grønvold Saue (1992), Peter van den Dungen (2005), Regina Braker (2005)
- ^ Aftenposten, 10 December 2011, Michael Nobel "I strid med Nobels vilje" (Against the will of Nobel)
- ^ "Fredrik Heffermehl (85) er død". NRK. 23 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.