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The Nobel Peace Prize has repeatedly provoked controversy for reasons that include perceived politicisation of selections, disputed judgments about whether recipients truly advanced peace, notable omi...
No — the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be transferred to another person: the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Nobel Institute state unequivocally that once announced the prize “cannot be revoked, shared, ...
The core official requirements for Nobel Peace Prize nominations are consistent across the reviewed 2025 summaries: . Reporting on the 2025 process adds that the Committee is five members appointed by...
The general public cannot directly nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize 2025; the formal nominating pool is restricted to specified individuals and institutions such as members of national pa...
The Nobel Peace Prize nomination and selection process is a tightly scheduled, multi-stage system run by the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting), in ...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded María Corina Machado the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a j...
There is no reporting in the provided set that identifies María Corina Machado as “one of the biggest Trump donors”; contemporary coverage instead frames her as a Nobel laureate who has publicly prais...
Joseph Goebbels did not receive a Nobel Prize; he was never a laureate. What is historically documented is that Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, gave his physi...
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado has not been canceled; Nobel institutions say once a prize is awarded it cannot be revoked, transferred or annulled, though controversies and poli...
Controversial Nobel selections have repeatedly forced institutional tweaks and inflamed public debate about who should decide global honors, prompting concrete procedural changes in committee composit...
Mainstream outlets have largely framed María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize and her subsequent presentation of the medal to Donald Trump as a mix of lofty commendation for her pro-democracy work a...
Multiple nominators and governments put forward Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize citing his brokered diplomatic deals — most prominently the Abraham Accords and a string of 2025-era mediation clai...
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to those who “have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion o...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is the five-member body that evaluates nominations and ultimately decides the Nobel Peace Prize laureate; it reviews several hundred valid nominations each year, may add ...
The reporting provided indicates the Nobel Peace Prize nomination process is governed by a and a multi-stage review by the Norwegian Nobel Committee that emphasizes independence from media campaigns o...