Quick facts – How does the Nobel Peace Prize work?
Oslo, NorwayReuters The winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on 7th October in Oslo. Here is a look at how the award works: Who can win?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 […]
Ethiopia PM must end Tigray conflict, Nobel committee says
Oslo, NorwayReuters The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize appealed on Thursday to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the award in 2019, to halt the conflict unfolding in the country’s northern region of Tigray. In a rare critique of a former laureate, the Norwegian Nobel committee said Abiy bore special responsibility for […]
ESSAY: WHY THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE BRINGS LITTLE PEACE
Following the recent announcement that advocacy group, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, US academic RONALD R KREBS, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the impact of the prize on its recipients and the world…