There are 329 candidates for the next one, including 234 people and 95 organizations Nobel Peace Prize. It is the third highest number ever that communicated by the Norwegian Committee which closed the possibility of proposing candidates on the first of February.
Every year the Norwegian Nobel Committee receives hundreds of nominations for the #NobelPeacePrize.
There are 329 candidates for the 2021 Peace Prize – 234 individuals and 95 organisations. 329 is the third highest number of candidates ever.
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The committee, as usual, does not reveal the names of the candidates. It is the organizations or groups that propose applications that tend to divulge the names. Among the candidates are the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was sentenced at home and is being held in the Pokrov penal colony, but also activists Belarusian Svetlana Tikhanovskaja, Veronika Tsepkalo and Maria Kolesnikova who took to the streets after the last elections which saw the confirmation of President Lukashenko accused of fraud.
There are names to be expected such as the Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. There are lesser-known, but politically important names like Stacey Abrams, a former candidate for governor of Georgia, crucial to the Democrats’ victory in the presidential elections in the state.
There are names you wouldn’t expect like that of the son-in-law of former US president Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, for their commitment in setting up the Abrahamic Agreements that established peace and collaboration between Israel and four Arab countries: United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Morocco and Bahrain.
The movement is also nominated for the Nobel Prize Black Lives Matter, the mobilization campaign for the rights of African Americans rose to prominence after George Floyd’s killing by police. There is also a candidacy for the World Health Organization, despite the disputed management of the pandemic.
In 2020 the Nobel Peace Prize, announced in October and awarded in December, was awarded to the World Food Programme, the world food program, the United Nations organization that fights world hunger and food security.
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