The much-anticipated prize, the highlight of the Nobel season, will be announced on Friday in Oslo.
OSLO — With war in Ukraine, coups in Africa and flaring geopolitical tensions, who in our "dysfunctional" global family, to use the words of the UN secretary general, could win this year's Nobel Peace Prize?
Last year, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, the prize went to a symbolic trio -- Russian human rights group Memorial, Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties and jailed Belarusian rights advocate Ales Bialiatski.After honoring another Kremlin critic the previous year -- Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, who shared the prize with his Philippine colleague Maria Ressa -- the Nobel committee could decide to turn its spotlight on another geographical region.
The head of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Henrik Urdal, said he would like to see the prize awarded jointly to jailed Iranian women's rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi and her Afghan counterpart Mahbouba Seraj.Urdal's colleague at SIPRI, Dan Smith, said he wanted to see the prize highlight the climate emergency.
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