This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct 6, in the midst of a period of flaring global conflicts. are reportedly two of the nominees, among political dissidents, leaders and human rights activists who are up for the prize. The winner will receive a medal, US$994,000 and global recognition.
And Leymah Gbowee, an activist who helped bring peace to Liberia, won the award in 2011, alongside former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Yemeni women’s rights activist Tawakkul Karman. The committee gave him the award “based on his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. However, Obama had been in office for less than a year when he got the prize, which is likely not enough time to do either of these things.
The war between the Ethiopian military and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths before it ended in November 2022. A United Nations investigation found in 2022 that all sides in the conflict have committed war crimes against civilians. In contrast, American diplomat Henry Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam that same year. The ceasefire began to falter almost immediately, and Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to the North Vietnamese army in May 1975.
The Nobel committee tends to award prizes to those involved in current events and doesn’t award prizes long after those events have happened. But some awards have stood the test of time, in part because they were given to individuals following long struggles.
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