The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will likely be introduced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here is a have a look at how the award works:
WHO CAN WIN?
According to the desire of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, the prize ought to go to the particular person “who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses.”
Thousands of individuals can suggest names: members of governments and parliaments; present heads of state; college professors of historical past, social sciences, legislation and philosophy; and former Nobel Peace Prize laureates, amongst others.
This 12 months there are 351 nominees, though the complete listing will likely be locked in a vault for 50 years.
Among oddsmakers’ favourites this 12 months are Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russia’s Alexei Navalny, although specialists say they’re unlikely to win.
Zelenskiy is a conflict chief whereas the committee targeted on Russia final 12 months, reducing each males’s probabilities.
WHO DECIDES?
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which consists of 5 people appointed by the Norwegian parliament, is the arbiter. Members are sometimes retired politicians, however not at all times. The present committee is led by a lawyer and consists of a tutorial.
They are all put ahead by Norwegian political events and their appointments mirror the stability of energy in Norway’s parliament.
HOW DO THEY DECIDE?
Nominations shut on Jan. 31. Members of the committee could make their very own nominations no later than on the first assembly of the committee in February.
They talk about all of the nominations, then set up a shortlist. Each nominee is then assessed and examined by a bunch of everlasting advisers and different specialists.
The committee meets roughly as soon as a month to debate the nominations. They often make their resolution on the closing committee assembly, which tends to be at the start of October.
The committee seeks a consensus on its choice. If it can not, the choice is reached by majority vote.
The final time a member stop in protest was in 1994, when Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat shared the prize with Israel’s Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.
WHO IS NOMINATED?
While the complete listing of nominations is stored secret, nominators are free to reveal them.
Among the names disclosed are Greta Thunberg and fellow environmental campaigner Vanessa Nakate, jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and Chinese protester Peng Lifa.
Experts who observe the award say this 12 months’s prize might spotlight human rights activists in a 12 months that marks the seventy fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The committee might additionally spotlight local weather change and reward the Fridays for Future motion, began by Greta Thunberg.
WHAT DOES THE LAUREATE GET?
A medal, a diploma, 11 million Swedish crowns ($994,000)- and instant international consideration.
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 winner, mentioned changing into a Nobel laureate was a double-edged sword. “One day no one was listening. The next, I was an oracle,” he’s quoted as saying in his authorised biography.
WHEN ARE THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE CEREMONY?
The announcement will likely be made at 1100 CET (0900 GMT) on Oct. 6 on the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo by the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen.
The ceremony will happen on the Oslo City Hall on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s dying.
($1 = 11.0607 Swedish crowns)
(Compiled by Gwladys Fouche; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
