Open thread: Who would you have picked as the winner of the Nobel peace prize?

Finland's former president and United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari who won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 10, 2008 Photograph: Hazir Reka/Reuters This year's Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Martti Ahtisaari, peace negotiator and former president of Finland, for his efforts on several continents and over three decades to resolve international conflicts, including in Northern Ireland, Nambia, Aceh, Kosovo and Iraq. Reports in the run-up to today's announcement speculated that Chinese dissidents Hu Jia and Gao Zhisheng were likely to win in a nod to this year marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights – prompting Beijing to issue a veiled warning that the... [read full story]