He won the election as a known anti Iraq war candidate for many years. That’s squarely about peace. He has reversed Bushism where it counts - the 1 billion size Muslim world by talking first, while still carrying a big stick. Bush like a child only knew how to fight, not listen, or negotiate.

He is pursuing nuclear disarmament - orthodox peace agenda, but with the twist that it might, just might neutralise the fear and loathing between Israel and Iran which are likely to be nuclear weapon states on the same block one day unless something changes … which draws in China, USA and thus the whole world, what a disaster.

And the fact Obama himself doesn’t feel worthy, and that it’s inconvenient to his own domestic politics, because he ‘hasn’t been there long enough’ etc. Well it really doesn’t matter what he thinks if he is in reality an unprecedented symbol of change. Why indeed would he particularly know precisely how he is viewed external to his own brain and eyeballs. He will just have to cop this Nobel Committee analysis just like all the other new roads represented by his very existence, and because that’s the gracious thing to do.

For instance he didn’t run as ‘the Black candidate’ rather the Democrat candidate, but 13% of USA being Afro American sure projected that on him, and he has to negotiate that too. Suck it up POTUS. You are the peace president for the globe, for just being yourself, win or lose.