Factbox-How does the Nobel Peace Prize work? By Reuters

By Gwladys Fouche

OSLO (Reuters) – The winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will likely be introduced on Oct. 7 in Oslo. Here’s a have a look at how the award works:

WHO CAN WIN?

The prize ought to go to the particular person “who has finished essentially the most or finest to advance fellowship amongst nations, the abolition or discount of standing armies, and the institution and promotion of peace congresses”, based on the desire of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, who based the awards.

1000’s of individuals can suggest names: members of governments and parliaments; present heads of state; college professors of historical past, social sciences, legislation and philosophy; and former Nobel Peace Prize laureates, amongst others.

This yr there are 343 nominees, though the total record will likely be stored locked away in a vault for 50 years.

Amongst oddsmakers’ favourites this yr are the Kyiv Impartial newspaper, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the United Nations’ refugee company (UNHCR).

WHO DECIDES?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which consists of 5 people appointed by the Norwegian parliament. Members are sometimes retired politicians, however not all the time. The present committee is led by a lawyer and contains an educational.

They’re all put ahead by Norwegian political events and their appointments mirror the steadiness of energy in Norway’s parliament.

HOW DO THEY DECIDE?

Nominations shut on Jan. 31. Members of the committee could make their very own nominations no later than on the first assembly of the committee in February.

They talk about all of the nominations, then set up a shortlist. Every nominee is then assessed and examined by a gaggle of everlasting advisers and different consultants.

The committee meets roughly as soon as a month to debate the nominations. They often make their resolution on the closing committee assembly, which tends to be in the beginning of October.

The committee seeks a consensus on its choice. If it could actually’t, the choice is reached by majority vote.

The final time a member give up in protest was in 1994, when Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat shared the prize with Israel’s Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.

WHO IS NOMINATED?

Whereas the total record of nominations is stored secret, nominators are free to reveal them.

Lately, Norway’s personal lawmakers have tended to launch names of their nominees upfront, with a run of success: seven of the final 9 winners appeared on these lists.

This yr, based on a Reuters survey of Norwegian lawmakers who’ve disclosed their nominees, the record contains Sweden’s Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future, Belarus dissidents Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo.

They’ve additionally nominated Russia’s Alexei Navalny, Pope Francis, British nature broadcaster David Attenborough, Tuvalu’s international minister Simon Kofe and the World Well being Group.

WHAT DOES THE LAUREATE GET?

A medal, a diploma, ten million Swedish crowns ($900,000) – and rapid international consideration.

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 laureate, has stated changing into a Nobel laureate was a double-edged sword. “At some point nobody was listening. The following, I used to be an oracle,” he’s quoted as saying in his authorised biography.

WHEN ARE THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE CEREMONY?

The announcement will likely be made at 1100 CET (0900 GMT) on Friday on the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo by the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen.

The ceremony will happen on the Oslo Metropolis Corridor on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s loss of life.

($1 = 11.1081 Swedish crowns)