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The Nobel institutions say bluntly that once a prize is awarded it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred — a finality grounded in the Nobel Foundation’s statutes and the practice of the prize comm...
No — there is no credible, documented ban barring Donald Trump from winning any future Nobel prizes; claims that he has been "permanently disqualified" circulated on social media and have been contrad...
The Nobel Committee evaluates Peace Prize candidates primarily against the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will — who “has done the most or the best” work for fraternity between nations, reduction/abolition o...
presented the physical Nobel Peace Prize medal to at , and Nobel organizers immediately clarified that the laureate’s title cannot be transferred — but there is no reporting that or fined or otherwise...
The Nobel Peace Prize accepts nominations only from a defined list of “qualified nominators” (including parliamentarians, university professors in certain fields, past laureates, and senior judges) an...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the Nobel Peace Prize on the Friday of the first full week of October — in recent practice that has been the second Friday of October (for example, the 2025 lau...
The Nobel Peace Prize nomination process is invitation-based and tightly regulated: valid nominations must be submitted by 31 January each year, nominations are kept secret for 50 years, and the Norwe...
The key fixed dates for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize cycle are: , the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s early meeting on , the laureate announcement on (at 11:00 CEST), and the award ceremony on in Oslo. Thes...
Individuals cannot validly nominate themselves for the Nobel Peace Prize; the right to submit nominations is reserved to specified categories such as members of national assemblies, university profess...
is an award‑winning teaching professor and sociologist at who has run one of the country’s largest undergraduate courses on race and ethnicity and co‑founded the project that has worked with programs ...
The Nobel committees have, as a rule, treated post‑award political controversy by holding decisions as final, refusing to rescind or transfer prizes, and largely declining to publicly police laureates...
Publicly announced Nobel Peace Prize nominations are rare because the Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps nominations secret for 50 years; nonetheless a growing number of nominators do disclose their own ...
The Nobel Committee evaluates Peace Prize candidates against the language of Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will — chiefly “the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reductio...
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The right to nominate candidates for the is restricted to a defined group of “qualified nominators” — a mix of elected officials, academic leaders, heads of peace and foreign‑policy institutes, , past...
The Norwegian Storting (parliament) appoints the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee by electing them for six‑year terms, with re‑election permitted, and instructs that the committee’s compo...
Geir Lundestad, longtime director and non‑voting secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, later wrote and told reporters that the committee had hoped the 2009 prize would strengthen Barack Obama bu...
The Nobel Peace Prize’s history is littered with awards that later generated institutional regret, public reversals or sustained controversy — notable cases include the long-debated omission of Mahatm...
María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Venezuela, publicly offered to “give” or “share” her prize with U.S. President Donald Trump as an expression of gratitude after U.S. forc...
A convicted felon can be nominated for and — based on available public rules and precedent reporting — potentially receive a Nobel Prize because the Nobel statutes set out who may submit nominations a...