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The Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 is planned to be announced on Friday, October 10, at 11:00 local time in Oslo, Norway (09:00 GMT).
The announcement comes from the Norwegian Nobel Institute on behalf of the all -Norwegian, five -member Nobel Commission, appointed by the Norwegian Parliament and is responsible for the election and presentation of the winners.
Nominations for this year's prize closed on January 31 and selection process It remains a secret.
A short story of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Awards were named after Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), a Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist, most famous for inventing dynamite, explosive, which transformed the modern world through the progress in construction and extraction, but which is also responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the wars.
Motivated by the desire to shape his inheritance, Nobel left a multimillion-dollar wealth for financing annual awards awarded to those who “have provided the greatest benefit to humanity” in the previous year.
The first Nobel awards were awarded in 1901 for exceptional achievements in the field of Physics., Chemistry., medicine., literature And peace.
In 1968, the Central Bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, established the Alfred Nobel Economic Science Award, expanding the categories to six.
So far this year, four Nobel Prizes have been announced. Following the Peace Award on October 10, the final Economics Award will be opened on October 13th.
Who can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Nobel Peace Prize aims to recognize personalities and organizations who have made exceptional efforts to promote peace, resolve conflicts and progress of human rights.
The Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 has 338 nominees, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations, compared to 286 candidates in 2024.
The nominations are maintained confidential, and the commission members are prohibited from discussing their decisions for 50 years. Only the nominators themselves can choose to disclose their statements.
While one cannot nominate, it can be nominated repeatedly by others.
This year, the United States President Donald Trump has become the focus of the Nobel Peace Prize nominations. Trump who said, “Everyone says I have to receive the Nobel Peace Peace Award,” received several approvals: Israel, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Pakistan, even so many have questioned his Costs.
While in the past many famous figures were nominated but never received the Nobel Peace Prize, the names most often sought in the Nobel nomination database are Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi and Joseph Stalin.
These persons represent extremely different heritages: Hitler was nominated in 1939 as a satirical gesture, Gandhi was nominated many times between 1937 and 1948, but was never awarded, and Stalin was nominated in 1945 and 1948 for his role at the end of World War II.
Who received the Nobel Peace Prize?
By 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded 105 times to 142 laureates – 111 persons and 31 organizations.
Among the individual recipients, 92 are men and 19 are women.
The youth winner so far is Malala YouSafzai, who received the award at the age of 17 in 2014, while the oldest is Joseph Rotblat, awarded 86 for his work against nuclear weapons.
The International Committee of the Red Cross holds the record for the most peace awards, recognized three times, followed by the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugee Supreme Commissioner (UNCBA), which won twice.
Geographical Europe is the largest share of 45 percent laureates, followed by North America (20 percent), Asia (16 percent), Africa (9 percent) and South America (3 percent).
In addition, the organization of the United Nations represents about 7 percent of all recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
When was the peace award was not awarded?
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded every year.
It was skipped to 19 cases, in particular in 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939–1943, 1948, 1955–1956, 1966–1967 and 1972, usually due to war or the absence of a suitable candidate.
According to the Statute of the Nobel Foundation, if none of the work of the candidates is considered significant enough, the prize can be denied the reward money carried to next year. If it cannot be awarded yet, the amount is transferred to the Foundation's limited funds.
A remarkable case came in 1948, the year Mahatma Gandhi was killed. Gandhi was nominated several times – in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and again in 1948 – for his inspiration in the India Freedom Movement. In 1948, the Nobel Committee chose not to award the award, referring to “there is no appropriate living candidate” widely regarded as implicitly tribute to him.
Has anyone refused the prize?
The Nobel Peace Prize has only been denied once.
In 1973, Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were awarded to the award for their efforts to end the Vietnam War.
Tho refused the award, citing the ongoing conflict in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War continued from the late 1950s to 1975, ending with the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 and killed millions of people.
Has he ever shared the prize?
Yes, very often. Of the awards presented so far 105:
- 71 awards were given to a laureate,
- 31 awards were shared between two laureates and
- 3 awards were shared between three laureates.
According to the Statute of the Nobel Foundation, the award can be divided equally between two recipients or shared between up to three if their work is considered a merit of the prize jointly. The award cannot be divided between more than three people.
Who are all the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize?
The table below lists all the Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901 to 2024, along with their country of origin.
