Nobel Peace Prize 2022: The Nobel Peace Prize, one of the six Nobel awards given each year, is given to individuals or organisations whose contributions bring significant change either at the micro or macro level and can be rallied for the process of peace. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament.
As per Alfred Nobel's will, the defining criteria for a Nobel Peace Prize winner is “the person who shall have 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”.
102 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded from 1901 to 2021 and have been awarded to 137 laureates — 109 individuals and 28 organisations.
Sixty-nine Nobel Peace Awards have been given to one laureate, 31 have been shared by two laureates and so far only two peace prizes have been shared between three persons.
The winners of the Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry and literature have already been announced. The name of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner will be declared on Friday, October 7, at 2.30 pm IST.
If you want to watch the Livestream of the 2022 Nobel peace prize winner announcements, you can follow Nobel Prize's official website or can watch it on the YouTube page
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Any Indian In Contention For Nobel Peace Prize 2022?
Cofounders of fact-checking website AltNews Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair and Indian author Harsh Mander are among the favourites to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, according to unofficial shortlists released ahead of the announcement on Friday.
TIME magazine, in a report, compiled a list of “some of the favourites to win, based on nominations that were made public via Norwegian lawmakers, predictions from bookmakers, and picks from the Peace Research Institute Oslo.”
Past individual winners of the Nobel Peace Prize include the likes of Barack Obama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai, Aung Sang Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021.
The youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate to date is Malala Yousafzai. She jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17 years. At 87 years old Joseph Rotblat is the oldest Nobel Peace Prize laureate to date. He won the award in 1995.