The Youngest Noble Peace Laureate The Noble Peace Prize has drawn polarized praises and criticism as this award is often conferred upon politicians. Some have argued the name of the Prize should be Political, not Peace, as some of the recipients, at the time of being awarded, either had barely any contributions to impactful peace or later turned out to be anti-peace in their actions following their awards. Among the very few non-politicians who became the laureates, Malala Yousafzai was not only the handful of Middle Eastern recipients, but the youngest so far and a true non-politicians. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat , where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. On October 9 in 2012, Malala was shot in the head on a bus by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt for her activism. She was in a coma while she remained a fig...