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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize goes to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). This was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on Friday. The UN organization will be honored, among other things, for its efforts in the fight against hunger and its contribution to the improvement of peace conditions in conflict zones, said committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen in the announcement of the award.
On this occasion, the Nobel laureates are endowed with ten million Swedish crowns (about one million Swiss francs) per category, one million crowns more than the previous year. At that time, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize for his initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.
The field of candidates for the world’s most prestigious political award was wide this year; no clear favorites emerged beforehand. The World Health Organization, WHO and climate activist Greta Thunberg were considered favorites in the betting shops.
Nominees will remain secret for 50 years
Experts had speculated that the award could go to an organization of journalists or young activists from Sudan or Somalia. The Nobel institutions themselves keep the names of the candidates secret – this year there were 211 personalities and 107 organizations – secret for 50 years.
The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one of all Nobel Prize winners that is announced and honored not in Stockholm, but in Oslo. The awards will be presented on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the inventor of dynamite and sponsor of the Alfred Nobel Prize. This year, this will take place in both Oslo and Stockholm due to the coronavirus pandemic in a different and much smaller environment.
