These are certainly not peaceful times on earth. Nevertheless, the Nobel Committee has chosen a new Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The Japanese peace organization Nihon Hidankyo will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year. The organization is honored for its commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons and also for demonstrating through eyewitness testimony that such weapons should never be used again. This was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. The organization had not yet been able to reach them to tell them about their award, said the new chairman of the committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, when the award was announced.
In times of Middle East conflict, the Ukraine war and dozens of other violent conflicts around the world, there was no clear favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize this year before the prize was announced. This time a total of 286 candidates were nominated, including 197 personalities and 89 organizations. That was significantly less than in previous years. The names of the nominees are traditionally kept secret by the Nobel institutions for 50 years.
Recently, several human rights activists were honored
In recent years, the Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Prize several times to human rights activists instead of traditional peacemakers. Last year the award went to the imprisoned Iranian women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi. She was honored “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”
This week, this year’s Nobel Prize winners in the categories of medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were announced in Stockholm. Finally, on Monday, there will be the award in economics, which is the only award that does not go back to the will of the dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), but has been donated by the Swedish central bank since the end of the 1960s.
The Nobel Prizes are all traditionally presented on the anniversary of Nobel’s death on December 10th, with the Nobel Peace Prize being the only one not in Stockholm, but in Oslo. The awards are endowed with prize money of eleven million Swedish crowns (just under 970,000 euros) per category.
Source: Stern
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