Oslo: Media Watchdog, Belarus Opposition Leaders and Climate Campaigners such as Greta Thunberg are among those who lead to a competitor for prestigious Nobel Peace Prizes to be announced in Oslo on Friday.
The wooden door of the Main Hall of the Nobel Institute will open at Oslo at 11am (0900 GMT), when the Chairperson of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen will step out to announce who among the nominations presented this year has been considered worthy of honor.
Predicting the winner is a giant guessing game, because there is no short list that is publicly made and nomination identity is kept secret for 50 years.
However, this does not stop experts and passengers of international relations to give them their best shots.
Among those whose names have resulted in a buzz in the announcement of the foundation on Fridays is a non-limited media supervisor journalist, the committee to protect journalists (CPJ) or international facts examination networks (where AFP included), as well as anti-transparency champion international corruption.
In a history of 120 years, the Nobel Peace Prize was never given to representatives from the independent press.
“Attention in reporting that helps us keep information and form a picture of current affairs because they are revealed is the right function of open public discourse and democratic institutions,” said Henrik Urdal, said the Head of the Peace Oslo Research Institute.
While science and literary gifts given in Stockholm this week have so far lost only for men, peace gifts can respect one or even some women.
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and his two allies, Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo, are among those who are seen as a prospective laureates.
Trio opposed the authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who was elected back to the sixth term in what was seen as a fraud selection in August 2020.
The Committee could also respect Lukashenko’s other leading opposite, Ales Bialiatski.
Activists or organizations working against climate change are also seen as a possible successor for last year’s winner, World Food Program (WFP), and is considered a danger by many experts.
“The crisis of climate change looks worse, floods and fires throughout, records the temperature in many places, melting Arctic ice sheets and this is also the COP26 year,” said and Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
“So I hope and some hope that the prize can go to a group of climate change activists who can include Thunberg Greta,” added Smith.
Although previously seen as having real shots in awards in the middle of a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been hampered by the controversy and distribution of slowly in the scheme of sharing Covax vaccines to poor countries.
However, it still exists between the bookies.
But another name grouped this year, although at a lower level, is a campaign to stop the robot killer – favorite of the Norwegian Peace Council – lead Russian opposition figures Alexei Navalny, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Whoever wins, it is not yet known whether the winner will be able to travel to Oslo to take awards, because of a pandemic.
Prizes – consisting of diplomas, gold medals and checks for 10 million Chronor (980,000 euros, $ 1.1 million) – traditionally given on December 10, commemoration of 1896 the death of the Prize Creator Alfred Nobel.
Peace Prize is the only Nobel given in the capital of Norway.
Next week, the Nobel season was wrapped on Monday with an economic gift announcement.