CNN —The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Norway on Friday, as Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine rages on and other flashpoints threaten to ignite across the globe.
But the peace prize can serve as a beacon of hope in fraught and fractured times.
“I think it’s precisely in a situation like this that the peace prize becomes particularly important.
But Nobel specialists have been quick to dismiss such speculation, saying it is rare for the peace award to go to a wartime leader.
“It would be like saying in 1941 that (then-British Prime Minister) Winston Churchill should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Persons:
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Organizations:
CNN, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Peace Research Institute, British, Getty, International Court of Justice, ICJ, Criminal Court, ICC, Ukraine – Memorial, Center for Civil Liberties, AFP, UN, New York Times, Brazilian Amazon, Brazil
Locations:
Norway, Ukraine, Stockholm, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Europe, SIPRI, AFP, Russia, Rome, Belarusian, Russian, Oslo, China, Pakistan, Canada, New York, Mexico, ”, Victoria, Ecuadorian, Brazilian, Amazonia