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being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize is nowhere nearly as significant as it sounds. Every year, many many candidates are supposed and nominated, a lot of whom are nuts, and it is this large list that is whittled down until a suitable group of people is (usually) arrived at. If you are famous and you are publically perceived to be doing some kind of good, you stand a very good chance of being nominated.
Kissenger and Arafat were both well-timed Nobel laureautes. And Gahndi never won.