The Norwegian Nobel Committee decides this Friday after its meeting in Oslo the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2024. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and the International Court of Justice (ITJ) lead the pools for the Nobel Prize in Peace. Both organizations feature prominently in the forecasts of the Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo and the Norwegian Peace Council, as well as in betting houses. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Emergency Response Rooms initiative for Sudan and the Afghan activist Mahbouba Seraj were other names that These two institutions were identified as candidates.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, appears in a better position in the betting houses’ pools for another year, but the fact that Ukraine is an active party in the war and that the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties was awarded two years ago They limit your options. The Russian activist Alexei Navalny is another of the names that stands out every year in the pools, despite the fact that the Nobel Prize cannot award deceased people.
Among the candidates in the environmental section are the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg – a great favorite in past editions – and the British David Attenborough. The Nobel Peace Prize was already awarded in 2007 to former United States Vice President Al Gore and Indian Rajendra Pachauri, from the UN Intergovernmental Group on Climate Change (IPCC).
The World Health Organization (WHO), the Uyghur activist Ilham Tohti, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, the Belarusian opposition activist Svetlana Tijanóvskaya, the Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, and the Ecuadorian Juan Carlos Jintiach, head of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), also appear in the pools, which are nothing more than conjectures.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize had 285 candidates, of which 196 were individuals and 89 were organizations, according to the Nobel Committee, which last year awarded the Iranian Narges Mohammadi for her fight for women’s rights. The Peace Prize is the only one of the six prizes that is awarded and presented outside of Sweden, in Oslo, at the express wish of Alfred Nobel, since in his time Norway was part of the neighboring country.