2022 Nobel Peace Prize


The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to one individual and two organisations which advocate human rights and civil liberty. The recipients were the Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. The citation given by the Norwegian Nobel Committee were the following:

Reactions

In Ukraine the joint awarding to organisations from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus was criticised by journalists for allegedly upholding the Russian nationalist stereotype of the "three brotherly people". The choice of the committee to award the prize while Russia and Ukraine were at war was also criticised. According to the Center for Civil Liberties "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 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy nor any other 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 Nobel Peace Prize, out of which 251 are individuals and 92 are organisations, becoming the second highest number recorded in history.

Prize committee

The members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that are responsible for selecting the laureate in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel are the same as last year: