The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for year 2020 will be announced Friday, October 9, 2020.
Every year, the winner of the coveted global prize is announced on the Friday of the first full week of October and this year, there are 318 candidates for the Prize, of which 211 are individuals and 107 are organizations.
318 is the fourth highest number of candidates ever. The current record of 376 candidates was reached in 2016.
The Nobel Prizes are often presented to recipients in impressive ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo, capital cities of Sweden and Norway, respectively, in December.
But because of COVID-19, the ceremonies in Stockhom will be cancelled this year and held, mostly digitally with medals and diplomas to be distributed to the recipients through their embassies.
However, the ceremony in Oslo for the Peace Prize is expected to hold, but it will be smaller than usual, especially with a much more reduced audience.
Already, recipients for other prizes in the sciences, literature and economics have been announced starting on Monday.
The Peace Prize is usually the climax but there will still be the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel that would be announced on Monday.
A frontline media advocacy organization may win the world’s most prestigious Prize for this year 2020.
Nobelprize.org will provide
– up-to-the-minute news about the 2020 Nobel Laureates
– live stream from the press conferences with exclusive interviews with members of the Nobel Committees
– information about the prizes
– telephone interviews with the new laureates
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896), who instituted the Prizes and after whom they are named, according to wikipedia, was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist who held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous.
He owned Bofors, which he redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Having read a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Peace Prize is given to a person(s) or organisation that has “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
