Nobel Peace Prize: Winner to be named as Trump seeks award
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year?
LAST year, the Japanese peace organization Nihon Hidankyo received the award for promoting a world free of nuclear weapons.
Nihon Hidankyo is a group of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Since August 1956, the organization has campaigned for greater healthcare provisions for survivors of the attacks, known as “hibakusha” (bomb-affected people), as well as .a blanket ban on the development and use of nuclear weapons.
Trump eyes the Nobel Peace Prize
Traditionally, the public does not know the identities of Nobel Prize nominees.
However, US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he deserves the award for resolving conflicts ranging from those between Pakistan and India to those between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
On Thursday, the AFP news agency asked Trump what he thought his chances were of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He replied: “I don’t know what they’re going to do, really. But I know this, that nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months.
“And I’ve stopped eight wars. That’s never happened before,” he claimed, adding that Gaza was “the biggest of them all.”
Trump’s proposal to end the two-year war in Gaza provided the framework for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas , drawing more attention to his bid for the prize.
How do Nobel prize nominations work?
The committees that award the Nobel prizes do not announce the nominations, and the Nobel statutes ban the judges from discussing their deliberations for 50 years.
However, those doing the nominating may choose to make their recommendations public.
People cannot nominate themselves, though they can be nominated multiple times by others, including members of each prize’s panel.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee is the only one that regularly recognizes achievements from the previous year.
According to the AFP news agency, the five members of the committee held their final meeting on Monday, during which they finalized the statement explaining their selection, which is typically made several days before the final meeting.
