Oslo: Nobel Committee announces Nobel Peace Prize winners

US President Donald Trump is also said to be among the nominees again. However, it is just as unlikely that he will receive the prize, which is considered the most important award in the world, this year as it was last.

At that time the prize went to the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. However, she dedicated her award to Trump and gave him her medal. Previously, the president had repeatedly brought himself into play for the prize. But he still has to wait for his own award: according to Nobel rules, Machado cannot officially pass on the prize.

Experts expect that the jury will try to avoid a new scandal this year - and agree on less controversial candidates. “I think that, above all, the world needs to be reminded of how important it is that we work together,” said the head of the Oslo Peace Research Institute Prio, Haakon Gjerløw. The many conflicts around the world have made people “very aware of the consequences of war, and also very aware of what we lose if we lose international cooperation.”

Promising candidates could therefore be children's rights organizations such as Save the Children or the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan - local networks that have been organizing humanitarian aid in the form of food, medical care and emergency accommodation since the beginning of the war.

This year's Nobel Peace Prize is worth twelve million Swedish crowns, one million crowns more than last year. This corresponds to just over one million euros. Nobel Prize winners have already been announced since Monday in the categories of medicine, physics, chemistry and literature. Among the three medicine prize winners are two German researchers, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. This year the prestigious award for literature went to the Canadian Anne Carson.

On Monday there will be the Swedish Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel. Officially, the award is not a Nobel Prize because it does not go back to the will of the Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833–1896). However, it is traditionally awarded after the Nobel Prizes.