Letters: The strange progress of the peace prize

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Letters: The strange progress of the peace prize

The EU won the Nobel peace prize for what committee chair Thorbjørn Jagland described as its “struggle for peace and reconciliation, and for democracy and human rights” (Report, 13 October). The decision has been greeted with some surprise, but rather than dwell on past issues, let’s regard this as an opportunity to make real progress towards peace, specifically the abolition of nuclear weapons.