Nobel Peace Prize: Will Trump’s wish this year take place?

Every year since 1901 the members of the Norwegian Nobel Prize – the guardians of the world’s most prestigious prize – are secretly meeting, without revealing to anyone when they meet to decide who the prize will award. The five members and the secretary meet in the Nobel Institute of Oslo Institute, which is decorated with the same chandelier and the same oak furniture from the first prize.

“We are discussing, disagreeing, there is tension,” says Norwegian Nobel Committee President Jorgen Watne Fryndnes in the BBC journalist, “but of course we are civilized and try to make a decision based on consensus every year.”

On the walls there are framed photos of each Nobel Peace Prize -winning, with a gap at the end for a photo of this year’s winner. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most important awards and gathers the spotlight every year. But this year there is one more reason this is happening and listens to the name Donald Trump. The most powerful man in the world wants the most prestigious prize in the world, a prize that seems to be obsessed with. After all, many world leaders are among those awarded.

On the walls of the Nobel Committee Hall already have four US presidents who have won, including Barack Obama And that makes Trump even more impatient to see his own name proudly written there.

In speeches and press interviews, he has repeatedly reported a list of the seven wars that he has stopped. It boasts that it is worth the prize and that “everyone is saying I have to get it”, but as he said in troops in Virginia last month “they will give it to someone who did nothing cursed. They will give it to the guy who wrote a book about Donald Trump’s mind … It will be a great insult for our country. “

World leaders have expressed their public desire to be awarded this year’s Trump award. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu He has proposed the US president for the prize. So is the president of IsraelIsaac Hertzog who now knit the US president’s praise “there is no doubt that he deserves this Nobel Peace Prize,” he wrote in X. President of Azerbaijan He told Trump at a press conference that he was worth it. OR Pakistani government He also announced that he had proposed him, winning the President’s applause.

And while there seems to be a fairly large public pressure this year for the big winner, the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s chairman seems to be not affected by any sense of public pressure.

“Every year, we receive thousands of letters, emails, requests, people who say ‘you have to choose’ – so having this pressure … is nothing new,” he says.

“We feel that people are listening, and people are discussing, and discussing how we can achieve peace is good. And we have to stay strong with principles in our choices … This is our job, “he adds.

Great competition

But the competition this year is great since the nominations are 338. According to the Nobel Prize for the Nobel Prize since 1895, this is awarded to anyone who has done most of the brotherhood between nations, abolishing or reducing permanent armies or for organizing or promoting conferences.

Sudan’s emergency response centers, the journalists’ protection committee and border -free journalists could be highlighted by this year’s winners.

A humanitarian organization that works for the environment such as a UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, UNICEF or the Red Cross could also be honored.

It could also highlight local intermediaries who negotiate truce and provide access to assistance to conflict areas, such as peace committees in the Central African Republic, the West African Network for Peace Building or the Committee of Elders.

For Jorgen Watne Frynn, the recipient must act as a “symbol of courage and hope”.

“We have to learn from their stories and never give up,” he said. “In a world of conflict and darkness, the Peace Prize is still a symbol of hope. Every year the award -winning are examples of courage and show that we are not destined by a genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn and make a positive difference for the societies we live in. ” added.

How likely is Trump win?

Trump certainly has his supporters, but for Nina Greger, director of Prio, a think tank for peace, the chances of winning are not great.

“The Trump government has been withdrawn from international institutions such as the World Health Organization and Paris climate agreements, and if you look at Trump’s desire to take Greenland from Denmark … This is not in favor of international cooperation.”

In conjunction with the suppression of protests, critical journalists and academics, he concludes: “I think they point in a non -peaceful direction.”

However, if the peace plan for Gaza is implemented – and prevailing – Greger believes he could be a candidate next year. “I think it would be difficult not to look towards his side then,” he says.

“Sometimes people have received the peace award despite their brutal history, their authoritarian historian, a background where they have contributed to evil or at least to offenses,” said Henrik Shais, a former member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

“But they had clearly seen that the things they had contributed were wrong and therefore took the necessary steps to correct these mistakes,” he said.

If Mr Trump manages to put pressure on Mr Putin to end the war in Ukraine or Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the war in Gaza, he could well be discussed as a potential candidate, he said.

The committee is expected to announce the winner tomorrow.