It's a bunch of Norwegian academics. Of course they have their Western and liberal biases and blind spots, but the theory a prize for the incarcerated Burmese election victor was motivated less by the symbolic importance of her continuing to express a belief about democracy and nonviolence and more a ruse to flatter her in the hope she would reinstate British colonialism in Myanmar which would somehow achieve a Norwegian foreign policy goal is just bizarre. Not sure what influence the committee hoped to obtain over the likes of Mother Theresa, Malala or the International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons either