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09 October 2020The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations World Food Program for the fight against world hunger, for its contribution to improving the conditions of peace in conflict-affected areas and its leading role in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war, "said the chairman of the Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen. The announcement came today from Oslo, the Norwegian capital that hosts the ceremony, broadcast live in streaming. epidemic makes the fight against hunger more urgent and "food is the best vaccine against chaos" reads the motivation that also underlines the link between the problem of hunger and conflicts, a vicious circle: "The first will never end as long as there are wars ".
This year, the prestigious award from the Royal Swedish Academy has come to terms with Covid-19: therefore a restricted audience and live streaming on the Nobelprize.org website.
Even the handover ceremony at the Concert Hall, on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, will not be able to have the usual celebrations and perhaps will be replaced by a television broadcast.
The prize money was instead increased by the Foundation to 10 million crowns, more or less 950 thousand euros.
On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize for medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The one for physics awarded studies on the mysteries of cosmic black holes and the one for chemistry went to the scientists who developed a “genome editing method.” The literature prize was awarded Thursday to American poet Louise Glück.