Organization was hailed for “acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.”
The United Nations’ World Food Program was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of its efforts to fight hunger across the globe.
The Norwegian Nobel Institute paid tribute to the organization “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.” The prize committee said that 135 million people suffered from acute hunger in 2019, the most in years. The COVID-19 crisis has increased that number.
“The combination of violent conflict and the pandemic has led to a dramatic rise in the number of people living on the brink of starvation,” Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said at the announcement ceremony in Oslo. “In the face of the pandemic, the World Food Program has demonstrated an impressive ability to intensify its efforts.”The agency was founded in in 1962, on the initiative of President Dwight D.
Reiss-Andersen said that, at a time when many nations are turning inward, awarding the prize to the WFP aimed to highlight the importance of collaboration in the face of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, in which “we are all, to a certain extent, in the same boat.”
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