[4] He also tried to pressure the Norwegian government to grant political asylum to Vanunu on numerous occasions, citing that Norway had a special responsibility due to their 1959 delivery of heavy water to Israel[5] via Great Britain.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre, on the other hand, stated that Norway already had put enough pressure on Israel, through diplomatic channels.
[7] In May 2008 Heffermehl, this time together with prominent jurists such as Ketil Lund and Jan Fridthjof Bernt, again petitioned the Norwegian Prime Minister to take action.
According to Heffermehl, the Norwegian political parties have used committee membership as an award to over-the-hill politicians in recognition of their service,[4] rather than picking non-partisan people with an actual background in peace activism.
[8] 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.
[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.
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.
[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).