Aung San Suu Kyi Case

Aung San Suu Kyi Across the world, there are people who have fought had to ensure that the world at all times remains a better place to live. In many instances, they have employed different mechanisms to ensure that the existing regimes hear their voices and cater for their needs. Historically, some have used peaceful means to ensure transformation of governance. In this regard, Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar becomes one of the great examples. Her struggle saw the Nobel Prize committee recognize her as the peace winner in 1991 (Abrams 77). Against this background, this essay analyses the circumstances that informed the decision to award Aung the prize. In this breadth, it explores Aung's struggles, challenges and the achievements during these great periods.

The reasons given by the Nobel Prize committee for awarding the Peace Prize to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi

In awarding her the peace prize, the Nobel Prize committee recognized Aung's non-violent struggle to ensure her country upholds democratic and human rights ideals. This highly significant feat ensured a realization of a better world (Associated Press par. 19). Therefore, the committee saw this as a great step forward in keeping abreast with the changing needs of the world's governance systems across the globe.

Notably, the quest to ensure the rule of law is a challenging task. Yet notwithstanding this enormous task, Aung seized the opportunity to bring change to her country. This is something that many would not have wished to engage in especially given the kind of brutal system that existed in Myanmar (Burma).

Aung embroiled her struggle from Gandhi's philosophical standpoint of non-violent protest. In this regard, she actively participated in the second struggle to ensure Myanmar's national independence in 1988. Further, she knew well that they would make no considerable achievement without harmony. This is an extremely vital aspect of societal construct. In this case, Aung agitated for conciliation among different regions, as well as ethnic groups in her country (Abrams 78). These people were sharply divided based on ethnicity and geographical regions. Therefore, for the country to succeed in its liberation quest, Aung rightly saw the need to make a clarion call for unity and understanding across the country.

Her continued effort to bring changes to his country aroused the conscience of her nation. The struggle ensured a vibrancy of the opposition. Eventually in 1990, her country voted overwhelmingly for the opposition. In spite of this, the incumbent regime refused to cede power. Amid all this, the later-to-become Nobel laureate never backtracked on her efforts to reach the causal roof of her aspiration (Abrams 79). Indeed, she would have easily decided to play by the regime's rules and land in a political haven. However, she upheld the need for the national good rather than the individual gains she would have otherwise, received.

Therefore,