On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo announces the name of the winner of its peace prize, which is the culmination of the season for awarding these awards, while speculation indicates that it may reward freedom of the press or environmental activist Greta Thunberg or the World Health Organization, in the absence of one candidate better.
The head of the Norwegian Committee, Beret Reiss Andersen, will announce, in front of a crowd distributed around the world due to the Corona virus epidemic, at 11 am local time (9 am GMT), the name of the winner or winners, whose number should not exceed three, in the hall of the Nobel Institute in Oslo.
The number of candidates this year reached 318, including 211 personalities and 107 organizations, all of whom were included on a list whose content is unknown, which complicates the possibility of determining the possibilities.
"There are many reasons for awarding the award to the field of journalism," said Ambassador Ludgard, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, explaining - in a statement to the French press - that, "in order for decision-makers to intervene in a conflict, it is important to be able to form an opinion on the basis of specific information." Provided by the media. "
Since its inception in 1901, the award has not been awarded to freedom of the media, but experts believe that it may be its turn, noting that the organizations "Reporters Without Borders" and "Committee to Protect Journalists" are among the possible winners.
The second possibility is the climate change issue with the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, alone or with other activists or for her "Fridays Days Ahead" movement, 13 years after the award was awarded to the Group of Governmental Experts on Climate Change and the American Al Gore.
In this case, Thunberg will be the second youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, after Pakistan's Malala Yousafzi, and the 18th woman to win this award.
In the year of the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, which is the most dangerous in a century, the members of the committee can choose to reward the efforts made in a pluralistic framework, far from national egoism, to combat the emerging Corona virus.
In this way, the World Health Organization could win the award, observers say, despite the criticism directed at its management of the health crisis.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, in recognition of his efforts in getting close to the former archenemy, Eritrea.
In this context, individual candidates are nominated, including the Afghan activist for women's rights, Fawzia Kofi, the World Food Program, the United Nations and its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the icon of the Sudanese revolution, Alaa Salah.
The award, consisting of a gold medal, a certificate and 10 million Swedish kronor (about 950,000 euros), will be officially awarded on December 10, the day of the anniversary of the death of industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).