The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to one individual and two organisations which advocate

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and

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. The recipients were the Belarusian activist

Ales Bialiatski Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski ( be, Алесь Віктаравіч Бяляцкі, Alieś Viktaravič Bialiacki; born 25 September 1962) is a Belarusian pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience known for his work with the Viasna Human ...

(born 1962), the Russian human rights organisation

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(founded in 1989) and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties (founded in 2007). The citation given by the

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were the following:

Reactions

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

the joint awarding to organisations from Ukraine,

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and

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was criticised by journalists for allegedly upholding the

Russian nationalist Russian nationalism is a form of nationalism that promotes Russian cultural identity and unity. Russian nationalism first rose to prominence in the early 19th century, and from its origin in the Russian Empire, to its repression during early B ...

stereotype of the " three brotherly people." The choice of the committee to award the prize while Russia and Ukraine were at war (with Belarus giving logistical support to the

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) was also criticised. According to the Center for Civil Liberties (in a press conference on 8 October 2022) "In no way should this award sound like an old narrative about fraternal nations" but "this story is about resistance to common evil." At the time of the press conference neither

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

nor any other (Ukrainian) government official had congratulated the Center for Civil Liberties on winning the Nobel Prize.

Candidates

Prior to his 2022 Ales Bialiatski's Nobel Peace Prize, he was nominated five times unsuccessfully. According to the Nobel Committee, there were 343 candidates for the 2022

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, out of which 251 are individuals and 92 are organisations, becoming the second highest number recorded in history.

Prize committee

The members of the

that are responsible for selecting the laureate in accordance with the

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are the same as last year: *

Berit Reiss-Andersen Berit Reiss-Andersen (born 11 July 1954) is a Norwegian lawyer, author and former politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. She is chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the 5-member committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize. She is also a ...

(chair, born 1954),

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(barrister) and former President of the

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, former state secretary for the

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(representing the Labour Party). Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2012, reappointed for the period 2018–2023. *

Asle Toje Asle Toje (born February 16, 1974) is the Deputy Leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (2018-2023). He is a foreign policy scholar and was Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 2009 until he joined the Nobel Peace Prize Committe ...

(vice chair, born 1974), foreign policy scholar. Appointed for the period 2018–2023. *

Anne Enger Anne Enger, formerly Anne Enger Lahnstein (born 9 December 1949), is a Norwegian politician who served as County Governor of Østfold from 2004 until 2015, and Leader of the Centre Party from 1991 to 1999, with opposition to the European Uni ...

(born 1949), former Leader of the Centre Party and

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. Member since 2018, reappointed for the period 2021–2026. *

Kristin Clemet Kristin Clemet (born 20 April 1957, in Harstad) is a Norwegian politician for Høyre, Norway's Conservative Party. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1989, but was not re-elected in 1993. She had previously served as a depu ...

(born 1957), former Minister of Government Administration and Labour and Minister of Education and Research. Appointed for the period 2021–2026. * Jørgen Watne Frydnes (born 1984), former board member of

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Norway, board member of the

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. Appointed for the period 2021–2026.

References

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