The Nobel Prize of Peace 2023 will be announced this Friday and is in the stage of different bets, although a vacant year.
In a world in which tensions and conflicts multiply, choosing a “peacemaker” is a challenge; The focus could be on the women’s rights or climate change.
It was noted that, although Volodymyr Zelensky figure “high” in the bets, it is difficult for them to give the prize to the president of a country at war, in this case with Russia.
Therefore, in a context plagued by conflicts, plus the war of Ukrainethe coups d’état in Africa and geopolitical tensions, the prize Peace Nobel is advertised as “the great unknown of this year”.
An award with serious difficulties
The long-awaited award will be announced on Friday in Oslo, but rarely has the global situation made predictions so difficult and, for example, Dan Smithdirector of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), stated: “The sad reality is that there is not much progress in world peace in 2023”.
“There are more wars now, almost double the wars there were in 2010, for example. So I don’t think that this year we will find a peacemaker for the Nobel Peace Prize,” he added. Smith in an interview with the AFP agency.
Last year, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, the Nobel Prize was awarded to a symbolic trio of defenders of rights and freedoms: the Russian NGO Memorial -officially dissolved in Russia-, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and the imprisoned Belarusian militant Ales Beliatski.
After enshrining another Kremlin critic the previous year – the Russian journalist Dmitri Mouratovawarded alongside the Filipino Maria Ressathe Norwegian Nobel Committee could be tempted this time to look at another geographical area.
Source: Ambito
