Of course, sitting around doing nothing automatically, magically creates world peace, right? It would've been peaceful had we let the Germans win World War I, after all. Peaceful rule under a psychopath, but hey, peace at any cost. So should we give the award to people who do nothing? That narrows it down to, well, just about everyone.

It's not called the Nobel Status Quo Prize, or the Nobel Pretend There's Peace Prize. Peace is sometimes only obtained through war.

As far as "takes the initiative", that's true so long as you ignore everything the UN has done for the past decade, and everything Iraq did in response. Oh and that little Kuwait thing.