2025 Nobel Peace Prize: How Winners Are Chosen And Why Trump’s Chances Are Slim | World News
Oslo: The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 10 and the world’s eyes will once again be in Oslo. How exactly did this prestigious award decide? Here is a full look at the back of the scenes.
Who decides?
The Norway Nobel Committee is responsible. Five members appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, usually retired politicians, but sometimes there are academics or experts in civil society.
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The current committee is managed by the president of the branch of Pen International, an organization that advocates freedom of expression.
Appointments reflect the political balance of Norway and the members argue by political parties. They carry enormous responsibility: Balancing legal, historical and human thoughts when choosing an award.
Who can win?
The Nobel Peace Prize, the will of the 1895 Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, says, “It should go to the person who does the most or best to establish and promote peace congresses, raising the scholarship between nations, the abolition or reducing the standing armies and the establishment and promotion of peace.
According to the Committee Secretary Kristian Berg Harpviken, the interpretation is flexible: ne What are the global tendencies, what are the main concerns, what are the most promising processes we have seen. And the processes here can mean anything from a particular peace process to a new kind of international agreement and is recently accepted.
The award is not only for historical achievements, but to reflect the current context of global peace and conflict.
Who can nominate?
Candidates come from a large apartment. Government and parliamentary members, president, history, social sciences, law and philosophy university professors and former awarders can propose candidates.
There are 338 official candidates for 2025. His names are locked in a vault for 50 years. However, they can explain who the candidates themselves recommend, but verification is impossible.
How does the committee decide?
The candidacy closes on January 31, then the committee members may make their own applications before their first meetings in February.
The process emerges in the stages:
- Discussion and Short List: Members review all nominations and create a short list.
- Expert Assessment: Permanent consultants and experts examine each island.
- Monthly negotiations: The committee convenes once a month and usually makes decisions until August or September.
The aim is a consensus. If the members do not accept, the decisions are taken by majority vote.
The process saw discussion. In 1994, when Yasser Arafat shared the Arafat award with Israel’s Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, a committee member resigned.
Who was nominated?
Although the exact list is hidden, the International Criminal Court, NATO, Hong Kong activist Chow Hang-Tung and Canadian Human Rights Lawyer Irwin Cotler, who were imprisoned this year.
Some leaders, including Cambodia, Israel and Pakistan, claim that he nominated US President Donald Trump, but his candidacy came after 31 January and is not suitable for 2025.
Experts observe that Trump can only win if it reverses the current policies they claim to have dismantled the international world order supported by the committee. Instead, the award usually emphasizes humanitarian associations, journalists or UN institutions or sometimes produces a surprise choice.
Last year’s award -winning, Japanese atomic bombs, representing the committee for a long time focusing on the threat of nuclear weapons, Nihon Hidankyo.
What does Laureate get?
The winners are recognized as medals, diplomas, 11 million Swedish crowns ($ 1.19 million) and globally.
Announcement, ceremonial programs
The announcement is planned on Friday, October 10 at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, given by the Committee President Joergen Watne Frydnes.
The ceremony will come at the Oslo Town Hall on December 10, commemorating the death of Alfred Nobel.
