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Peace Prize in Wartime – They Can Be Honored in Oslo

The conflict in the Middle East is at the center of speculations about this year's peace prize, with UN organizations and Palestinian and Israeli peace activists among the favorites. For it is hardly likely that the Norwegian Nobel Committee chooses a Norwegian?

» Published: October 10 2024

Peace Prize in Wartime – They Can Be Honored in Oslo
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If liberal politician Abid Raja had his way, NATO's recently resigned Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg would receive the peace prize to be announced in Oslo on Friday at 11 am.

He works tirelessly for peace in Ukraine and is the most important force for peace outside Ukraine. I become so proud to be Norwegian when I see Stoltenberg on the world stage, said Raja last winter when he explained whom his party had nominated for the prize of the year.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has not awarded a compatriot for over 100 years.

Middle East

Instead, speculation is mainly focused on the peace prize highlighting the conflict in the Middle East, possibly through a prize shared by Israeli and Palestinian activists or organizations. Human rights groups B'Tselem and al-Haq are mentioned, as well as women's organizations Nashim Osot Shalom and Nisaa al-Shams, and independent journalists and media on both sides.

Strong support also exists for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA – which, however, risks meeting strong anger from Israel, which has banned the agency from operating in the country after allegations that employees were involved in Hamas' major terror attack on October 7 last year.

Election Observers

UNRWA and its chief Philippe Lazarini are on the speculation list presented by Henrik Urdal at the Norwegian peace research institute Prio ahead of the peace prize.

At the top, however, he has the OSCE's election observation organization ODIHR.

It's very important to draw attention to election observers this year, a year with many major elections, so it would be a prize that points in several directions at the same time, says Urdal to the news agency NTB.

Court or Musk?

Mentioned by both Urdal and others are also the two international courts in The Hague, ICJ (International Court of Justice) and ICC (International Criminal Court), as well as various organizations linked to the war in Sudan.

If the far-right gets its way, it seems that X-owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in the running. From various quarters, Musk has been nominated for both the Nobel Peace Prize and the EU Parliament's most prestigious human rights prize, the Sakharov Prize.

His work for dialogue and communication, for freedom of expression, and his contribution to technological development contribute to making the world better and safer, said Member of Parliament Marius Arion Nilsen from the Progress Party last spring.

Here are the last ten years' recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize:

2014: Child rights activists Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi from India.

2015: Tunisia's national dialogue quartet.

2016: Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos.

2017: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Ican.

2018: Doctor Denis Mukwege from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yazidi Nadia Murad from Iraq.

2019: Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

2020: The UN's World Food Programme, WFP.

2021: Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov, active in the Philippines and Russia, respectively.

2022: Imprisoned democracy profile Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial, and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.

2023: Imprisoned women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi from Iran.

Source: The Norwegian Nobel Institute

The recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize are chosen, in accordance with Alfred Nobel's will, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which in turn is appointed by the Norwegian parliament, the Storting.

The prize is to be awarded, according to the will, to "the brotherhood of nations, the abolition or reduction of armies, and for the maintenance and promotion of peace in the world". The winner must be nominated no later than January 31 or by any of the members of the Nobel Committee at its first subsequent meeting.

This year, 196 individuals and 89 organizations have been nominated.

Nineteen times throughout the years, the Nobel Committee has chosen not to award a prize: 1914–1916, 1918, 1923–1924, 1928, 1932, 1939–1943, 1948, 1955–1956, 1966–1967, and 1972.

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