The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded today in Oslo, Norway, in a dark international context marked by a record number of armed conflicts in the world.
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09/10/2026
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Lusa
O Nobel Peace is now awarded in Oslo, Norway, in a dark international context marked by a record number of armed conflicts in the world.
This is the only Nobel Prize to be awarded in Oslo by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, with the other categories to be announced in Stockholm, Sweden's capital.
The announcement is scheduled for 10:00 in Lisbon and is made in a gloomy context: 65 armed conflicts involving at least one State were recorded in 2025, a record since 1946, a year that marks the beginning of these statistics, according to the Oslo Institute of Peace Research (PRIO).
This is one of the Nobels that usually focuses the most media attention.
In 2025, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, insistently complained that he deserved to be awarded, a hypothesis that largely divided opinions worldwide.
The Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee decided last year to distinguish Venezuelan opponent María Corina Machado, who would later offer the gold medal for the award to the American leader. The Nobel Institute clarified that the prize could not be transferred.
For this year, experts in the field, namely PRIO, point out among the potential winners the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Save the Children and Ukrainian Mykola Kuleba, who works to rescue Ukrainian children taken or transferred by force by Russia, as part of the conflict that began in February 2022.
Other PRIO favorites include the Emergency Intervention Units in Sudan (ERR), a vast network of volunteers providing assistance to a population affected by war and famine, and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ), since 2025 was once again a deadly year for the profession. Last February, this committee advanced that 129 journalists had been killed in 2025, a record number.
Also mentioned by other experts is the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, the International Criminal Court, or even Pope Leo XIV.
This year, 287 individuals and organizations have been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, a list that will remain secret for 50 years.
Nobel Prizes were born of the will of Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel to donate the immense fortune for the recognition of personalities who served humanity.
The inventor of dynamite exhibited this wish in a will written in Paris in 1895, a year before he died. The awards were first awarded in 1901.
Since that year, 106 Nobel Peacekeepers have been awarded, with a total of 143 laureates (112 individuals and 31 organizations). On 19 occasions this award was not awarded.
Among the laureates, 20 were women and on three occasions the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by three laureates, it was the case of 1994 when Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin were distinguished “by efforts to create peace in the Middle East.”.
The awards ceremony will take place on December 10, which marks the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.