Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for opposing South Africa’s apartheid regime, which enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
Op asked “if someone who was a convicted felon/rapist could they be awarded the nobel peace prize?.”
These two are things are not the same, and just to make sure we’re both on the same page, they’re not the same because one of them went to prison as a form of protest against an unjust system. The other raped some people.
of course they can, Nelson Mandela won one, and he was famous for his time in prison
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for opposing South Africa’s apartheid regime, which enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
Op asked “if someone who was a convicted felon/rapist could they be awarded the nobel peace prize?.”
These two are things are not the same, and just to make sure we’re both on the same page, they’re not the same because one of them went to prison as a form of protest against an unjust system. The other raped some people.
A felon just means someone who broke the law, akaik. Law != morality.