Nobel may have been aware of the strong interest of the Norwegian Storting Parliament in the peaceful solution of international disputes in the s. He might have in fact, considered Norway a more peace-oriented and more democratic country than Sweden. Or it may have been a combination of all these factors.
Go to content. Laureates are finalized through committee discussions based on the reports. The committee always aims for a unanimous decision, but if that is impossible, the winner is chosen by the majority. The peace prize ceremony is held on Dec. They were chosen from among the second largest number of nominees in the prize's history. A: The lists of the candidates and the decision process are not disclosed until 50 years after a prize is awarded.
Mahatma Gandhi, who led the Indian independence movement before being assassinated in , was nominated five times but did not win. Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov has for decades defended freedom of speech in Russia under increasingly challenging conditions.
In , he was one of the founders of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Novaya Gazeta is the most independent newspaper in Russia today, with a fundamentally critical attitude towards power. He has consistently defended the right of journalists to write anything they want about whatever they want, as long as they comply with the professional and ethical standards of journalism.
Free, independent and fact-based journalism serves to protect against abuse of power, lies and war propaganda. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is convinced that freedom of expression and freedom of information help to ensure an informed public.
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