# Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [October 8, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544 "2025-10-08T21:38:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/1 "2025-10-08T21:38:38Z")
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: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/6/c/6cd2e94e4af1d1f28e161e29df66009a62a0eadf.jpeg) 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? Here may be the answer to those questions: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/3/1/31a34a40f0e6f1d5298a2c8940fb082d9fb2fc8e.jpeg "Nobel Peace Prize 2025 Explained: 338 Nominees, Surprises, and Could Trump Win? | APT") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnAcWKawQs) BTW: Now it’s decided\* > [@](#): > > The chairman [Jørgen Watne Frydnes](https://www.vg.no/tag/joergen-watne-frydnes?utm_source=vg-article&utm_medium=auto-tagger&utm_campaign=Ppkogz) (40) will walk out the famous door and announce the name to the rest of the world. > – These days we put a lot of effort and time into formulating the justification, he says. > – The world has probably looked even worse than it does today. But as long as I have been alive, this has been experienced as a particularly conflict-filled time. What the Peace Prize represents is more important than it has been in a long time. Source: [Fredsprisen: Nå er tildelingen avgjort](https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Ppkogz/fredsprisen-naa-er-tildelingen-avgjort) PS\> Watch this space on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Jughead](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jughead/32/4257_2.png) [@Jughead](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jughead)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/2 "2025-10-09T00:51:32Z")
> [@ombugge](#): > > BTW: Now it’s decided\* 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? ---
**Author:** ![New3M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/new3m/32/394_2.png) [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/3 "2025-10-09T01:05:54Z")
> [@Jughead](#): > > So Trump’s Gaza PEACE deal won’t figure in their deliberations for the Nobel PEACE Prize? If he had solved it on Day 1 like he promised, then there would have been plenty of time for deliberations. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Jughead](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jughead/32/4257_2.png) [@Jughead](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jughead)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/4 "2025-10-09T01:07:25Z")
> [@New3M](#): > > like he promised Show me. ---
**Author:** ![New3M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/new3m/32/394_2.png) [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/5 "2025-10-09T01:15:34Z")
> **[In first 100 days, Trump struggles to make good on promises to quickly end...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-ukraine-gaza-russia-100-days-ad7af3502370f1743e28690ac0ce2a17)** > > Ahead of his second go-around in the White House, President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting peace in the devastating 18-month conflict in Gaza. ---
**Author:** ![Jughead](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jughead/32/4257_2.png) [@Jughead](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jughead)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/6 "2025-10-09T01:30:43Z")
> [@New3M](#): > > [In first 100 days, Trump struggles to make good on promises to quickly end Ukraine and Gaza wars](https://apnews.com/article/trump-ukraine-gaza-russia-100-days-ad7af3502370f1743e28690ac0ce2a17) 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? ---
**Author:** ![renoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@renoun](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/renoun)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/7 "2025-10-09T04:58:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![powerabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@powerabout](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/powerabout)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/8 "2025-10-09T13:06:02Z")
Trump still did a good job, let ukraine run till nato is finished let gaze run till no gaza result ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/9 "2025-10-09T13:27:21Z")
> [@Jughead](#): > > Note, “Nobel”. Not “Noble”. Surely you can get Scandinavian names right? Sorry, old habit. I used to work with Noble Denton for many years: ![grgsuhresgga2vqumhq1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/1/5/15471623269d0fa263791875507f2356708477b6.jpeg) Maybe an Admin. could correct the heading? Update: Fixed the heading myself. ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/10 "2025-10-09T14:40:25Z")
> [@Jughead](#): > > So Trump’s Gaza PEACE deal won’t figure in their deliberations for the Nobel PEACE Prize? 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: > [@](#): > > According to the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, the prize should go to the 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”. Read more at: [Explained | How is the Nobel Peace Prize decided?](https://www.deccanherald.com/world/explained-how-is-the-nobel-peace-prize-decided-3228402#2) 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: > [@](#): > > _– Has the president also called the committee chair at the Nobel Institute?_ > – No, answers Jørgen Watne Frydnes. > – Trump hasn’t called me. > _– He still has a few days. What will you say if he brings it up?_ > – No… I haven’t really thought about that. > > The committee chairman thinks about it. > – To be completely honest – without revealing too much – this is one of my occupational injuries from working for so many years with Utøya: I associate phone calls with tough things, he says. > – Constant calls from a survivor, a bereaved – affected person struggling with their own. I have developed a serious degree of telephone phobia. Most people who know me know that I don’t answer anyway. > _– So there’s no point in Trump calling?_ > – No, he doesn’t need that. > _– What do you think about self-promotion as a candidate strategy?_ > – We only need one nomination, we. We don’t need many “big” signatures or campaigns. One valid nomination submitted by the deadline is enough for us to be able to assess whether a candidate is worthy of this year’s award. 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: > [@](#): > > Nobel may have been aware of the strong interest of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) in the peaceful solution of international disputes in the 1890s. He might have in fact, considered Norway a more peace-oriented and more democratic country than Sweden. Finally, Nobel may have been influenced by his admiration for Norwegian fiction, particularly by the author [Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1903/summary/), who was a well-known peace activist in the 1890s. Or it may have been a combination of all these factors." Source: [nobelprize.org](https://www.nobelprize.org/) ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/11 "2025-10-09T19:47:13Z")
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: > [@](#): > > - Committee to Protect Journalists > - Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms > - The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights & The Carter Center > - The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom > - The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court Source: [Nobel Peace Prize: PRIO Director's List – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)](https://www.prio.org/nobellist) We will know tomorrow at 1100 hrs. CEST if they have manage to predict the right candidate this year. 🧐 ---
**Author:** ![244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a3d4f5/32.png) [@244](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/244)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/12 "2025-10-09T21:15:50Z")
Argue and bitch about the orange man and his opposition All you like. I am no fan of this orange idiot. But If this guy gets this deal over the line then please please please just give him some credit . I can’t believe it but just give him credit. I couldn’t believe it was possible. ---
**Author:** ![244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a3d4f5/32.png) [@244](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/244)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/13 "2025-10-09T21:17:02Z")
Please Mr Fart Turn your limited attention to Ukraine ---
**Author:** ![244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a3d4f5/32.png) [@244](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/244)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/14 "2025-10-09T21:18:26Z")
Sorry my last post was out of order. Credit to President Trump ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/15 "2025-10-09T21:50:19Z")
> [@244](#): > > If this guy gets this deal over the line then please please please just give him some credit . 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. ---
**Author:** ![powerabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@powerabout](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/powerabout)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/16 "2025-10-10T00:19:05Z")
They lost all credibility giving one away to Obama ---
**Author:** ![KemalPamouk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kemalpamouk/32/8425_2.png) [@KemalPamouk](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/KemalPamouk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/17 "2025-10-10T02:25:55Z")
That was a super efficient award process: less than 9 months from inauguration to award. ---
**Author:** ![KemalPamouk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kemalpamouk/32/8425_2.png) [@KemalPamouk](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/KemalPamouk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/18 "2025-10-10T02:28:38Z")
If the committee spends from February to September evaluating the candidates, that only left Obama a month to actually earn the award. ---
**Author:** ![KemalPamouk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kemalpamouk/32/8425_2.png) [@KemalPamouk](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/KemalPamouk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/19 "2025-10-10T02:33:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jughead](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jughead/32/4257_2.png) [@Jughead](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jughead)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544/20 "2025-10-10T03:00:35Z")
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. [Next page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-for-2025/73544.md?page=2)