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The Norwegian Nobel Committee's decisions and criteria for selecting Nobel Peace Prize winners.
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...
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 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...
The claim that is false: , not by the laureate, and the 2009 award to Obama was publicly announced and conferred by that committee while he was president . The decision provoked immediate debate about...
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...
The Nobel Peace Prize is chosen by a five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting); the current committee comprises Jørgen Watne Frydnes (chair), Asle Toje (vi...
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...
The Nobel Peace Prize nomination and selection is a tightly regulated, largely confidential eight-month process in which qualified nominators submit names by January 31, the five-member Norwegian Nobe...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee assesses a nominee’s impact on lasting peace by measuring concrete contributions against Alfred Nobel’s original test—work “for fraternity between nations, for the abolit...