The Nobel Prize announcements next week will highlight accomplishments that have improved the globe, offering hope amidst the escalating Middle East conflict, the war in Ukraine, the hunger in Sudan, and a crumbling climate.
The award winners will be notified between October 7 and 14.
Experts think it is more difficult than ever to forecast the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s choice for the Peace Prize, the most prestigious of the six Nobels, which will be announced on October 11.
Swedish philanthropist Alfred Nobel created the prizes in his 1895 will, stipulating that they go to those who have “conferred the greatest benefit on humankind”.
But given the bleak state of world affairs, perhaps no one should get the Peace Prize this year, suggested Dan Smith, the head of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
“Maybe this is the time to say, ‘Yes, many people are working very hard, but it’s not getting there and we need more people and world leaders to wake up and realise that we are in an extremely dangerous situation,'” he said.
“We have now over 50 armed conflicts around the world. The lethality of those armed conflicts has increased dramatically in the past two decades,” he said.
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