The Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo: this year it goes to the Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights association Center for Civil Liberties
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded toBelarusian activist Ales Bialiatskito the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian Human Rights Association Center for Civil Liberties.
Bialiatski, one of the initiators of the democratic movement that emerged in Belarus in the mid-1980s, is currently in prison. He dedicated his life to the promotion of democracy and peaceful development in his country of origin, reads the release of the Nobel Prize, which recalled how government authorities have repeatedly tried to silence him: he was jailed from 2011 to 2014. Following large-scale demonstrations against the regime in 2020, he was arrested again. still detained without trial. Despite enormous personal difficulties, Bialiatski did not give in an inch in his fight for human rights and democracy in Belarus.
The one for the Pace was perhaps the most anticipated of the Nobel laureates: from 1901 to 2021 was awarded 102 times. Until yesterday, 137 names were registered in the roll of honor: 109 individuals (18 women) and 28 organizations. The International Committee of the Red Cross was awarded three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), while the UN High Commissioner for Refugees only two times (1954 and 1981).
Last year the award went to Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa, two dissident journalists: the former, chief editor of the Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper for which the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, killed in 2006, wrote; the second, a naturalized American Filipino citizen, co-founder of the news site Rapplerknown for his inquiries into the work of the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
From Aung San Suu Kyi to the compliments of the Kremlin
Nobel laureates are often seen as thorns in the side of authoritarian regimes (the Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi, awarded in 1991 when she was – like today – under arrest, could only go and collect it personally in 2012). Sometimes oppressive governments find themselves putting the best of luck when an uncomfortable citizen of theirs is reported by the Academy of Sweden.
also happened last year, when the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov (a name that would become very familiar to us after the start of the war in Ukraine) publicly congratulated Muratov, praising his courage and talent: We can congratulate Dmitry, he constantly worked in accordance with his ideals, he adhered to they, talented and brave. a high level of appreciation, we congratulate him.
Missteps: the Abiy case
Sometimes the award comes to crown a virtuous and no-return journey, as happened in 1993 with Nelson Mandela and Frederik De Klerkthe two former enemies who had put an end to the apartheid system in South Africa.
Sometimes the peace path (and the prize itself) turn out to be a hasty misstep: this was the case of the Ethiopian premier Abiy Ahmed Ali, awarded the Nobel in 2019 for having sanctioned the end of the conflict with Eritrea. A pacification that turned out to be instrumental to the policy of aggression that united the two supposed peacemakers, Addis Ababa and Asmara, in the pincer war against the population of little Tigray.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner can reach those who have been able to be forgiven for faults and omissions: it happened in 2001 to the UN Secretary Coffee Annan, which in the nineties of the previous century from the upper echelons of the United Nations had not been able to avert (as indeed the leaders of the world, from France to the United States) the genocide in Rwanda. Big names or less known figures: in 2018 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwegefor their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
Favorites on the eve
This year, expectations and bets on possible winners were focused on two major crises: the war in Ukraine (with its international and internal Russian ramifications) and climate change.
The famine that is affecting ever greater slices of the planet could have been on the list of priorities, were it not for the fact that already in 2020 the Nobel Peace Prize went to World Food Programme for the efforts made in the fight against hunger in the world. Among the bookmakers’ favorites were the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskythe Russian dissident Alexey Navalny and the Belarusian opponent in exile Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
On the parallel front of the fight against climate change, after a hot summer that made the effects of global warming even more evident and devastating, the spotlight was immediately on the icons of the Fridays for Future movement, such as the nineteen-year-old Swedish Greta Thunberg and the Ghanaian Chibeze Ezekiel.
Among hundreds of nominees, even the British science writer David Attenborough96, and the foreign minister of Tuvalu Simon Kofe, as a spokesperson for the island nations that are in danger of disappearing due to rising sea levels. Among the organizations in the running there were also Transparency International, the anti-corruption NGO headquartered in Berlin, as well as large ones player such as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), already awarded twice, the UN Children’s Fund, Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Perch a Oslo
Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, the one for Peace is awarded in Norway, and not in Sweden where Alfred Nobel was born, the chemist, entrepreneur and philanthropist known for being the inventor of dynamite and the creator of the most famous prizes in the world: the announcement and award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize are held in Oslo because at the time the awards were established, Norway was still united with Sweden, before independence enshrined in 1905.
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