The Noble Peace Prize for 2025 will be announced this Friday 10. Oct. at 1100 hrs. CEST.
This will be done by the Chairman of the Norwegian Noble Committee at the Noble Peace Institute in Oslo and broadcast world wide.
PS> Now from the original lectern for the first time in many years:
But how are the winner selected? By who is it decided? Who can nominate candidates? What criteria are used to decide on the eligibility of the nominated candidates?
And finally, the most misunderstood point; How are the 5 members of the committee appointed? By whom? Can they be influenced by politics, outside pressure, or be bribed?
So Trump’s Gaza PEACE deal won’t figure in their deliberations for the Nobel PEACE Prize? That’s a pity. If it works, a whole bunch of screeching Lefties, sanctimonious universities and media wafflers will have to find a new hatred to get worked up over, and keffiyeh sales will plummet.
Note, “Nobel”. Not “Noble”. Surely you can get Scandinavian names right?
My English comprehension perhaps differs. Ukraine within 24 hours, not Gaza.
Do you think he’d have the Nobel in the bag if he stopped Ukraine war in 24 hours? No. But it’s a commendable effort anyway on Gaza, don’t you think?
I’m incredibly amused that Fred Ramsdell is going to finish his backpacking trip sometime soon, turn on his phone, and and get an absolute deluge of communication because the Noble committee tried to inform him of his award in Physiology or Medicine but couldn’t reach him. This is way better than the doorbell camera footage of the Stanford professor who turned his phone to do not disturb a couple of years ago.
Obviously not for this year’s prize, but if Trump’s Gaza PEACE plan should result in a lasting peace in the Middle East, then he would equally obviously be a strong candidate the next year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
PS> Here is the criteria for who deserved such recognition, set by Alfred Nobel in his will:
That is the ONLY criteria that guides the members of the Nobel Committee in the deliberation over who to award the Nobel Peace Price to each year since 1901,
PS> When the Chairman of the Nobel Committee was asked about outside influence he answered as follows:
Source: vg.no.
Another question that is frequently asked is; why is the Peace Prize awarded by a Norwegian committee, while all the other Nobel Prizes are awarded by the Swedish Academies?
Norway and Sweden were in a Union (1814 - 1905) during Alfred Nobel’s lifetime
(1833-96), But this is not necessarily the only reason:
Every year the Peace Research Institute Oslo, (PRIO) compile a shortlist of candidates for Nobel Peace Prize winners that often successfully identifies the winner(s).
Here is this years list:
If his Peace Plan should result in something that can be called a lasting peace, or he manage to get a peace deal in Ukraine, then he would certainly be high on the list of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize next year (or the years after)
The Nobel Committee’s work is a “Marathon”, not a “Sprint”.
They spend a lot of time (Febr. - Sept.) evaluating the nominated candidates and preparing their justification for their choice.
Some years they don’t even find a deserving candidate, other times the prize is shared between equally deserving candidates.
PS> And again; the members of the committee are NOT sitting members of the Storting (Parliament), active politicians, or controlled by the Norwegian Government.
Wait– I looked at the calendar. He was inaugurated on the 20th of January, so that would only leave him 11 days to get the job done before the Nobel committee begins deliberations in February. Truly an exceptional guy.
I’ve cut and pasted this very relevant (paywalled) section of an article in The Australian, our national newspaper, by Henry Ergas, an excellent analyst of international affairs.
I commend it to all.
What is clear, however, is that had Barack Obama or Joe Biden been president, the prospects for peace would be far poorer than they now are. At least so far, Trump has not only displayed a realism that completely eluded his smug and sanctimonious predecessors; he has also demonstrated a dogged commitment to getting results and a willingness to seek opportunities, rather than succumb to opportunism, that puts them – and our own leaders – to shame.
Most of all, what Trump has shown is an understanding of the need to accompany promises with credible threats.
In a world where the notion of an “international community” is just pious hot air, and where the “rules-based order” all too often protects the ruler-breakers at the expense of the rule-keepers, thus encouraging the very barbarism it was intended to deter, nothing could be more consequential.
Doing all that has involved addressing intractable obstacles and taking great risks. If they bring the people of the Middle East closer to the peace they so desperately need, Donald Trump will have more than earned his Nobel prize.
