[chalst]

For an example of when efforts to get people to get along are actively bad:

> It's hard to beat the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for the engineering of the profoundly undemocratic Oslo peace accords, that led one of the recipients to start the Second Intifada (i.e. a revolution against the deal that he himself had negotiated) and the assassination of the other and the rise of the deeply unsavoury Netanyahu. It's set back meaningful peace in the region by at least a generation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797736

[asabjorn]

I am in full agreement with you on the problems with the Nobel Peace Prize.

They awarded the price many times for purely political purposes to warmongerers that went on to commit war-atrocities at scale, like Carter with his track record or Obama that had no track record.

If the argument is that this is a way to try to encourage good behavior then the committee also need to withdraw the prize when the recipient don't.