Facts About the Nobel of Peace

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The peace award is named after Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite.

The First and Second World War contributed to the committee's decision not to award awards in some of the following years, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1967, and 1972.

The five commission members are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament for a six-year term. They are independent of parliament.

Politicians, academics, former award winners, directors of the peace research institutes and current and past members of the Nobel Committee are among those who have the right to propose candidates.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has won the award (1917, 1944, 1963), while the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees twice (1954 and 1981).

Red Cross founder Henry Dunant and French founder of peace society Frederic Passy, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Peace.

The youngest winner was Malala Yousafzai, 17, in 2014.

The oldest, Joseph Rotblatt, 87 years old, in 1995.

Since 1905, 17 women have won the prize, first in 1905 and last in 2018.

Le Duc says, who won the award along with Henry Kissinger in 1973 for negotiating the peace agreement that would end the Vietnam War, declared he could not accept it because peace had not yet been decided.

Three winners were imprisoned at the time of their awards, German pacifist and journalist Carl von Osietzky (1935), Myanmar democracy lawyer Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) and Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiabo (2010).

Doug Hammarskykyld was awarded the prize after he lost his life in 1961.

From 1974 the foundation” Nobel” decided that the price could not be extended to death unless it occurs after Nobel's proclamation.

The nominated names for the Nobel Peace Prize may not be known for 50 years. We already know that Joseph Stalin was twice nominated, and Adolf Hitler in 1939. Mahatma Gandhi was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and 1948 shortly before his murder.

In 2016 a record number of 376 nominations was presented, with 228 individuals and 148 for organizations. The 301 nominations in 2019 constitute the fourth largest number of candidates.

Since 2019, awards for 107 individuals and 24 organisations have been awarded.

This year's price is worth 9 million korons (98,000 dollars).