The International Language Esperanto is regular and relatively easy to learn, is currently in use by a worldwide community and is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, radio broadcasting, and on the internet.
Esperanto already serves as a common auxiliary language, fostering effective and fair international communication.
The “Universala Esperanto-Asocio” supports linguistic diversity, democracy, human emancipation, and a global culture for peace.
Because Esperanto contributes to education for international understanding, and because understanding is essential for peace, I wish to nominate the “Universala Esperanto-Asocio” for the Nobel Peace Prize 2010
To be sent to:
Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
The Norwegian Nobel Institute
Henrik Ibsen gate 51
NO-0255 OSLO
Norway
Telephone: 00 47 2212 9300
Fax: 00 47 2212 9310
Other MPs can also use the above text to add their name by sending on House of Commons notepaper.
[...] I går kom jeg over en blogg som heter Esperantolobby. Siste post er fra 29. desember 2009 og heter «Nobel Peace Prize for Esperanto». Dette er da en oppfordring [...]
By: Fredspris til esperanto? « Frem i lyset on January 16, 2010
at 11:01 pm
[...] Hieraŭ mi trovis blogon kiun nomiĝas Esperantolobby. La lasta kontribuo, la 29an de decembro, nomiĝas «Nobel Peace Prize for Esperanto». Tio estas admono al personoj [...]
By: Pacpremio por Esperanto? « Frem i lyset on January 16, 2010
at 11:06 pm
Se britaj parlamentanoj volas nomigi Esperanton por la pacpremio, kial oponi tiujn parlamentanojn ?
By: Brian Barker on January 18, 2010
at 6:55 pm
Kiel mi komentis ĉe mia blogo:
Se iu politikisto, kiu ne mem estas esperantisto volas kandidatigi Esperanton/UEA-on, bone.
Se la Nobela komitato iam donos la premion al UEA/Esperanto, bone.
Sed tio certe ne okazos pro kampanjo aŭ prem-ago de Esperanto-asocio.
In English:
The essence of my blog post is this:
If a politician, who himself is not an Esperantist, wants to nominate Esperanto for the Nobel Peace Prize, that’s perfectly fine.
If the Nobel committee in the future really awards the prize to Esperanto/UEA, that’s fine too.
But this will never occur as a result of any campaign or lobbyism from inside the Esperanto movement.
By: judith on January 21, 2010
at 10:05 pm
Mi petas, ne prognozi la estontecon
Krome la gugla afero sukcesis http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg21/JRedPRP/Look%20Up%20Fellowship/GoogleEsperantoLogo.gif
kaj tio rezultis pro “kampanjo”
By: Brian Barker on January 21, 2010
at 11:03 pm
I have some objections to make
Esperanto does not promote linguistic diversity. It refuses to use any other language but Esperanto in its meetings and international gatherings, ever heard the Esperanto phrase “ne krokodili”, would you like to explain the meaning of that to Non-Esperantist promoters of linguistic diversity?
How many languages are taught using Esperanto as the medium of instruction, as opposed to using those languages as a medium for teaching Esperanto ?
Esperanto does not unite people with different world views, it is not neutral, it only promotes left-wing ,secular,and humanistic ideologies. How many Esperanto publications are there supporting right-wing agendas? none.
How many support extreme left win agendas?you do the maths.
Lastl but not least.The esperanto movement is conducting a war to the death with the english language, it is full of central european geriatric anglophobes , whose hatred of english is expressed in practically every esperanto magazine or website.
Is this the sort of “peace promotion” that deserves a nobel prize?
By: chris duncan on December 15, 2010
at 6:34 am
Hello, Chris
This quite a bit here which deserves a response. You’re right that there is a phrase “ne krokodilu” used at Esperanto gatherings, but this is not about opposition to to ethnic and national languages. If two people who speak Japanese use their mother tongue where Esperanto speakers are present, then I and other nobn-Japanese cannot understand them. There is absolutely no problem with them using their l;anguage in other contexcts.
In fact, from the very beginning of Esperanto, its speakers have encouraged linguistic diversity. Early Welsh-speaking promoters of Esperanto such as Griffith Griffiths also promoted the Welsh language.
At most Esperanto conferences there is an introduction to the local language. So there was an introduction to Welsh in Llandudno last May. Next summer therre will be an a series of Danish lessons in Copenhagen. This is quite rouitine. At an Esperanto holiday in Plouezec / Pluezeko / Ploueg ar Mor I attended a Breton language course.
Esperanto does indeed unite people with different world views; in that sence it is neutral, and can be used – and is used to live and promote a a variety of lifestyles and ideologies. There is no official or unofficial ideology, so Esperanto is used by Catholics and Protestants, by business people and anarchists. I have spent a lot of time with people whose standpoint differs greatly from mine. Bring your own world-view to the Esperanto. You will be very welcome.
No, there is no war between Esperanto and English. Some people object to unfairmness in the current linguistic order. I love English, my mother tongue, and I don’t mind if people choose to learn and use it.
By: Bill Chapman on December 17, 2010
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