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The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize announcement is imminent amidst global conflicts and concerns about international order. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, with 338 candidates (244 individuals, 94 organizations), will reveal its choice, kept secret for 50 years. Nominations publicized by nominators include anti-occupation activists Issa Amro and Jeff Halper, nominated by Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa and Donald Trump, nominated by US Representative Claudia Tenney. Last year, the Japanese atomic bomb survivor movement, Nihon Hidankyo, received the award. The committee’s decision precedes the recent Israel-Hamas ceasefire and could signal key failings from world leaders.
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But didn’t officials in Pakistan and Israel also nominate Trump this year?
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Who has been nominated this year?
We don’t know for sure – the Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps the candidates’ names secret for 50 years, meaning there is no certainty and it’s all, frankly, guesswork.
However, there is a workaround. We have an idea of a few people who are likely to be on the list when nominators — who are eligible individuals like members of government or university professors — choose to publicise their submissions.
This year, those include:
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Anti-occupation activists Issa Amro from Hebron, Palestine and Jeff Halper from Jerusalem. (Nominated by Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa)
Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian
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Donald Trump. The US president has said several times that he deserves the prize, and is openly envious that four of his predecessors, including Barack Obama, who have received the award. (Nominated by US Republican Representative Claudia Tenney)
Chow Hang-tung poses with a candle ahead of the 32nd anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, in Hong Kong. June 2021. Photograph: Lam Yik/ReutersShare
Updated at 04.26 EDT
Welcome to the Nobel peace prize blog
Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the 2025 Nobel peace prize. The winner is due to be announced in Oslo in an hour’s time.
With major conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and fears over a time of breakdown in international order, the committee’s choice today could be interpreted as a pointed signal on key failings from world leaders.
Last year, the Japanese atomic bomb survivor movement Nihon Hidankyo received the award. This year, the committee has a total of 338 candidates to choose from (244 of which are individuals and 94 organisations).
Other past winners include presidents, campaigners and organisations, from US President Jimmy Carter to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, from Nelson Mandela to the late Chinese rights activist Liu Xiaobo, from the EU to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Norwegian politicians have been steeling themselves for potential repercussions to US-Norway relations if it is not awarded to Donald Trump.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee pointedly said on Thursday that it had reached a decision about who would be named 2025 peace prize laureate on Monday, several days before Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire under the US president’s Gaza plan.
Follow us here for all the buildup, the announcement, and, of course, the reaction.
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