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The Nobel Peace Prize has been surrounded by controversy due to its selection process and the actions of its laureates.
Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was unusually polarizing because it was awarded early in a presidency while the United States remained at war, producing intense global attention and domestic ske...
The Nobel Peace Prize has repeatedly provoked debate because selections sometimes appear political, premature, or out of step with Alfred Nobel’s original language on “peace” — a pattern scholars and ...
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is chosen under the legal prescription of Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will — principally for whoever “has done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolitio...
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...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s membership—and particularly its long history of being filled with active politicians appointed by the Storting—has repeatedly sparked controversy that shaped both speci...