The winners for four of the six categories of the Nobel Prize have already been announced.
The announcement of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize is eagerly awaited.
On Friday, October 8th, 2020, it will be announced who
will
receive the
2020 Nobel Peace Prize
.
The
Nobel Peace Prize
is one of the most important awards in the world.
There is already speculation about the possible favorites - including
Greta Thunberg.
Even
Donald Trump
has been nominated.
Oslo - Thursday, October 8th, 2020, 4.30 p.m .: After the announcement of the
winners of the 2020 Nobel Prizes for Chemistry, Physics, Medicine and Literature
, the
winners of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize will be
announced
on Friday,
October 9th,
2020
at 11 a.m.
.
The 17-year-old
climate activist Greta Thunberg is
once again the favorite this year
.
But: There is still speculation about other candidates who could win the prestigious award.
Even
Donald Trump
is for the
Nobel Peace Prize 2020
nominated.
Experts estimate his chances to be rather low.
Nominations for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize: favorites and surprise candidates
The total of 318 nominees include
Greta Thunberg
and New Zealand's Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern
for her handling of the
corona pandemic
and the
Russian opposition politician Alexej Navalny,
who was the victim of a poison attack in Russia and is being treated at the Berlin Charité.
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The climate protection activist Greta Thunberg speaks to participants in the climate demonstration Fridays for Future.
© Christian Charisius
The nominations can be submitted by members of governments and parliaments worldwide.
The Norwegian right-wing populist Christian Tybring-Gjedde had nominated
Donald Trump
for the
2020 Nobel Peace
Prize.
His reasoning for
Trump's
nomination, which surprised many people, is that
Trump
did "more to bring peace between nations than most of the other Nobel Peace Prize nominees."
Traditionally, the nominations for the
Nobel Peace
Prize have been kept
under lock and
key
by the
Nobel Prize Committee
for
50 years
.
Nevertheless, the candidates for the
Nobel Peace Prize
mostly
seep
through the nominees.
Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize following Israel-UAE accord https://t.co/hYElcJX9j6 via @nypost
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2020
The favorites for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
Henrik Urdal
from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) published a
Nobel Peace Prize Shortlist
2020: The peace researcher predicts that this year the award will be given to journalists' associations such as the
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
and
Reporters Without Borders
, which advocate
independent journalism ,
Use
freedom of the press
and
free speech
.
One of his favorites for the
2020 Nobel Peace Prize
is
Can Dündar
, former editor-in-chief of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, who was arrested in Turkey, now lives in Germany and writes for DIE ZEIT, among others.
Another tip from Urdal for the
2020 Nobel Peace Prize
are peace activists in Sudan, including
Alaa Salah
,
a democracy
activist
who campaigns for
women's rights in Sudan
.
In addition, one
Alexei Navalny
's favorites Henrik Urdal for the
Nobel Peace Prize 2020.
The nominations had to be submitted by the end of January 2020, which is why democracy activists from
Belarus
as
Swjetlana Tichanowskaja
very likely to receive the award this year not.
. @ h_urdal's 2020 list is here!
Read about the candidates at the link, and then listen to the latest episode of PRIO's Peace in a Pod to get an in-depth understanding of the issues he wanted to highlight.
Plus, why there's no way Trump is winning.
https://t.co/XyQ4UYEGtk
- PRIO (@PRIOUpdates) September 28, 2020
Nobel Peace Prize 2020: One of the most prestigious awards in the world
According to the will of the foundation's
initiator Alfred Nobel
, a Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, the
Nobel Peace Prize is to be
given to those who “most or best work on the fraternization of peoples and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and holding back Promotion of peace congresses. ”The
Nobel Peace Prize
is traditionally - unlike the other
Nobel Prizes
- presented in
Oslo
instead of
Stockholm
.
The five-person jury for the
Nobel Peace Prize
- the Norwegian
Nobel Prize Committee
- is appointed by the Norwegian Parliament.
Last year, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Abiy Ahmed received
the
Nobel Peace Prize 2019
for his efforts to achieve peace in the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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Alexej Navalny is one of the favorites for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
© Andrew Lubimov
These are the Nobel Peace Prize winners since 2014:
2019 | Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia) |
2018 | Denis Mukwege (Congo), Nadia Murad (Iraq) |
2017 | International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (Switzerland) |
2016 | Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) |
2015 | Quartet du dialogue national (Tunisia) |
2014 | Kailash Satyarthi (India), Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) |
The prestigious award is still controversial: The award of the
Nobel Peace Prize
to the European Union and to the former US President Barack Obama has been criticized many times.
Since 1901, only 17 women and 90 men have been
among the winners of the
Nobel Peace Prize
.
The
Nobel Peace Prize
is endowed with ten million Swedish crowns (950,000 euros) and is due to be awarded digitally in Oslo this year due to the corona pandemic.
The award ceremony traditionally takes place on December 10th, the anniversary of
Alfred Nobel's
death
.
(By Delia Friess)